We are 4-4 and in the playoff hunt. If we end 6-10 or worse by all means fire Philbin.

Until then, lets see what this teams got. I see us winning more than a few games from here on out. Media bs be damned.

 

The only one? No. A good candidate? Sure.

I wouldn't be surprised if (more likely when) Philbin get's the axe that we may look into respected coaches who are looking for another go. Lovie Smith springs to mind. Maybe a college guy like Shaw if you could woo him over here.

 

The patriots were caught literally cheating in the Super Bowl. But they win football games, so no one remembers. Bounties for intentionally hurting other players? no one remembers cause...the saints win football games. Ray Lewis' murder trial, chiefs player murders his wife and commits suicide in facility, plaxico shoots his own leg in a night club, etc etc, all forgotten. The answer is winning football games.

If we can't win football games, you fire everyone anyway. But if we can...people will stop caring about the other crap.

We have a Mnf game against Tampa, a tough home game against sd, and another against Carolina. We can win them though. This team gets to 6-4 or 7-4 and the discussions will disappear.

If not...fire people

 

Winning does solve everything.

 

have you seen don shula lately ? there is nothing that guy could do other than make us look even more weak

 

Bpk, MIke Shula, really? I'd rather stick with the circus will currently have. You're assuming that Mike Shula's name carries even a fraction of the same weight as the Don. It's not the case. That's like voting for George Bush Jr because he father was president. Oops, wrong forum.

 

This blackmark on the Dolphins is annoying me as well. As I get older I tend to question what is more important: rooting for a team that wins all of the time or rooting for a team I believe in the character of? I think the character of my team means more now (to me) than it did 20 years ago. For example: I enjoy watching football, but I told myself a while ago that if they ever signed Michael Vick they just cut me. I'm a dog lover, so that would be devastating to me. But I'm not trying to turn this into a Vick bashing thread (there has been more than enough of them), so let's leave that one alone. The problem with rooting for a team's character is that every team has a few "bad apples". Our's are just being exposed right now. Heck, the whole tree seems rotten at the moment. I won't turn my back on the team I have loved for 37 years, but sometimes it seems like the sane choice. Just sayin'....



Oh, and I'd avoid Shula. Unless, of course, we could clone Don......

 

Tony Dungy is a sanctimonious, self-righteous ******* and a bigot, and I don't want him anywhere near this team.

 

Too old.

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I think our rep will be fine when all the dust settles. I think that because I truly believe Martin is lying and that it will eventually come out that he is. It won't change everyone's opinion, but I don't care about that.

I think the best PR move we can make is firing Ireland and making Dawn Aponte GM. The PR from that will make the majority of the fanbase happy for getting rid of Ireland and everyone else will feel positive about the Dolphins having the first woman GM.

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Yes, I believe Ireland should be fired now. No it has nothing to do with Cogs. No I can't talk about it down here. No I will not PM anyone about it.

 

While that would certainly help the team's public relations - having the first female GM. It does nothing to restore our faith that we have improved the position of GM. As much as people moan and groan, Ireland is at least a mediocre GM and is not the worst in the league (character issues aside). No guarantee that Aponte wouldn't be worse.

 

As long as our players get people fantasy points nothing matters.

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You want the Dolphins to have a positive national reputation? Stop hiring people like Jeff Ireland and Dawn Aponte.

 

Sign Tebow...he is literally the only thing that would somehow, against all odds, trump the media coverage right now.

All agents assigned to the Dolphins "implosion story" would immediately switch gears and pour all existing resources to covering Tebow joining the Dolphins.

 

I'll take a good coach over a name any day.

 

It won't surprise me if Shula doesn't come anywhere near the Dolphins for a while, to protect his own reputation. Like it or not, right now we are a bad joke and a circus. Why would Shula want to get involved with this?

We need to win some games. If we win, all this becomes nothing more than a back-page side story. The media will move on to the next big thing.

Let's just go and win, guys. Start in Tampa, Monday night, in front of God and everyone. Change the narrative, starting with pounding the daylights out of the Bucs.

 

This, and also:

That.

 

Shula sent this team in the death spiral its been in for decades in the first place.

 

Sorry. I didn't see what you said there. My eyes got distracted to the left a little bit.

 

Still not buying this mindset on what happened BPK.

It's not just lockeroom behavior it's behavior and interactions between people period.
Guys joke around and rib much rougher than women yet have no malicious intent in doing so.
I could go through a ton of examples with personal friends.

If you took texts messages or taped certain conversations between friends ribbing each other and presented them as LITERAL everyone would be horrified.
If you took messages between people trying to motivate others in an animated way literally you'd think they were threatening them.
If you took transcripts of comedians performances and presented them as literal they'd be looked at as the worst people on the planet.
Heck even interactions between men and women. If you took messages between lovers dirty talking to each other about what they're going to do to each other everyone would think these people were deviants.

Normal functioning adults can determine the context of conversations and the situations they happen in.
Some adults simply aren't able to. Enter Jonathan Martin.

 

I feel what your saying bro, the problem is I'm not sure where were at relative to other teams maturity level..Richie is an obvious *** who would probably take a bullet for his close friends, so it's hard to put his character into context and whether we can understand it, and find some sort of silver lining respect in it..

I don't think the whole team deserves to be indicted like this, so hopefully they bond, keep continuing to build with the right guys, and leave this eye soar in the dust..

 

Don Shula is already a chairman of the Miami Dolphins. Amazing how people never realize it.

 

To helps to not have a HC who can't walk and survives in a Golf cart. Shula's ship has passed. Dungy is a great man. Wrote one of the best books on integrity and character I have ever read. BUT I want to win a Superbowl , not a P.R. Contest. Bring back Jimmy Johnson. That man knows how to win and is still capable of it.

 

His Son!? Again I want to win football games , not a Media pissing contest. God I hate the media. BUT if I was a head coach I would invite the bastards in everyday and host lunches for them. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer! Each player would give them access and feed the machine so I could control it without them even knowing it. Then create favors. Give them little bits and pieces , and when something bad goes down call them in.

 

Somehow I think you are in the minority in that opinion, but you are most entitled to have it.