hope they find him. can't imagine a scarier scenario as a parent.

 

man..how is he missing?..that is scary.

 

Let's just hope he's missing due to just some dumb thing that many 21-year-olds do from time to time, and nothing foul. Nothing scarier for a parent!

 

Has to be difficult to game plan for the game this weekend with that going on. Hope they find him and he's OK.

 

My prayers to Coach Philbin and his family...I hope there is no foul play involved here...good luck and we hope you find him soon...

 

Maybe he started something with the wrong person this time.

From ESPN "A Brown County judge sentenced Michael Philbin to six months in jail in 2009 after he was convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls and two counts of battery."

 

Seriously hope all is well and he is found. However being a Dolphins site I can't help but think how this would relate to us as well. If something truly is wrong here we can scratch him off the list of candidates for multiple family reasons.

Meaning Zimmer will probably be the choice for coach this week. I think we need a coach in place within the next 2 weeks at the latest.

 

man my prayers are with him, my five year old daughter is sleeping next door, cant imagine what i would do, if she was missing

 

well now I really dont feel bad for him.

 

Well you know he's already got plenty of enemies from that so anything is possible now.

2 am Sunday til now isn't very long to be considered missing.

 

How do you focus on work with a missing kid? although, 2am sunday? its only monday afternoon. hopefully he's just sleeping a rough night off.

 

Deadspin says they think he may have been intoxicated and fell into an icy river and drowned.

 

Probably just having himself a nice bender.

 

SO, one of our coaching candidates has a sexual predator for a son.

I hope they find him floating somewhere.

 

I don't follow deadspin but given the story, I was thinking accident (likely related to drinking) too.

 

Report says he left party at 2 a.m. .... report of someone falling into icy river was at 2:30 a.m. Hopefully, coincidence, but ouch, not good.

 

Yes, seems like he fell through the ice and drowned.....

 

Dude is too stupid to call a cab when drunk and likes to molest kids.
Yeah its not like we're losing an esteemed member of society here.

 

Reading the story he doesn't like to molest kids. He was 18 and the girls were 16.

He is for sure was an 18 year old who liked taking advantage of drunk 16 year old girls.

 

Sounds legit.

 

Wait...this is frowned upon?

 

Stupid facts, they change everything. Only reading this thread I went from, "oh no", to "oh well", back to "oh no".

 

I live in oshkosh wisconsin. The river runs right next to the university, right out of lake winnebago. Lots of kids drinking and partying and stumbling between parties and bars and dorms around there. Temperatures were below freezing last night.

 

Horrible for the family, regardless of whatever mistakes the guy did or didn't make in his own life.

As this is a dolphins site, I wonder if Philbin is going to be in any condition to consider a head coaching job anywhere should the worst be confirmed. I imagine all teams considering him will need to scratch him, unfortunately

 

I doubt he'd be looking to uproot the rest of his family assuming this is true.

 

I would tend to agree with the last few posts. I think you can probably cross Philbin off the list. Which means it appears that Miami is down to plan C (assuming Fisher and Philbin were A/B).

At this point, does it make more sense to keep Todd Bowles, Daboll, and Nolan together and simply add as many pieces as we can via free agency and the draft?

 

Two chicks at the same time, man.

...are they a news outlet? They think?

 

Deadspin has actually broken quite a few stories over the past couple of years. So yes, I would say they are a source.

They also basically put the pieces together since the timeline of when everyone saw the kid last, and reports of someone falling through the ice match up. It might have been a guess, but it appears to be an educated guess.

 

All I know is this....

Coach Philbin may have lost a son. I cant even fathom....FATHOM...the pain he and his family are feeling at this time. I cant help but feel for him and his family, and football is so far remote as far as he is concerned. He may have lost his baby son.....no matter how old your kids get, they are always your babies.

Please....lets try and think of the family when commenting.

Just read it has been confirmed. What a sad time for the Philbin family.....

My thoughts and heart go out to them.....

 

Sucks for Coach Philbin. It's one thing when you're expecting someone to pass in the near future (for example if they have an disease/illness), but it's another when it's like this.

 

That is a mother and fathers child.....they have to bury their baby son. Its a HUGE loss.....