Beware the Mangina.

 

The goal is to hire the right man, rather than a right now man.

Amen

 

I am a little confused at how Ross is involved if he is in China?

 

Not surprising.

 

Chillax on the GM scene, know way I'm sayin.

Seriously, they've made it pretty clear that the main priority is for the guy to be the best on the evaluation side..takes time to know who was responsible for what..anyone can be cool in the interview and have great prescense, but can you break down the film and see the position specific movement that makes you make the right call..different talent.

 

He's not in China permanently.

 

I'm open to Mangina.

 

Can we stop with the Senior Bowl stuff?

We do not need to hire anyone before then. Everyone being interviewed is going to attend the bowl in their current positions and any on our team already are going to attend as well.

This is just more stuff for the category of "sounds good when you say it fast", like the GM always hires his coach, or coaches give great speeches.

 

That is too bad...

 

I walked into that one.

 

I agree with you that the Senior Bowl thing is being overblown. These guys will be there as will the Dolphins scouts. It probably won't affect much. If you had your 'druthers you would like a GM to be in place though. You'd like them all to be on the same page while looking at guys there, and in particular, conducting interviews. You'd rather get the hire right though, than rush the hire just to get him in by the Senior Bowl.

 

You will criticize whoever they pick once they make a move you don't like.

 

If they had their druthers they wouldn't even want to be in a GM search.

My point is that people are acting like if we don't have a GM in place before the Bowl, then we've failed miserably, when its pretty irrelevant and its vitally more important that we find the right guy.

 

Did any one ever think that maybe the New GM is a Ninja with ultimate authority to start chopping off heads?

This has got to be the reason Ross is in China.

 

You're not just off the reservation, but you're off the planet, spiraling into the black void of space....

 

Lol....couldn't resist.

 

Well in the 21st century we now have these wonderious things call video conferences where all parties can see each other in real time talk and have detailed discussions. They are very usefull to owners of businesses when they need to be in 2 places at once, such as this. This way Mr. Ross can continue to make his billions else where and continue to hold interviews with prospective employees.

I'm sorry for getting snarky but come on guys lets use the God given gift of our brains before we post. I am sure Mr. Ross wants to be there in person, but sometimes his real business can not be put on hold.

 

I'm interested to see how long they wait. The implication I seem to be drawing from this article is that they now will look at candidates from the 2 teams that were ousted this previous weekend, San Francisco and New England, along with some other candidates they've had a bead on but haven't brought in yet. I also wonder if this search will only yield a hire after the Dolphins get a shot to appropriately interview Scot McCloughan, who declined to interview because the Seahawks are in the midst of a Super Bowl run. I can't really tell.

 

McCloughan is not going to interview for anyone, I don't think. He has some weird set up with the Seahawks where he works from home and there was some drunk driving/event/speculation/rumor/incident or something about him too. I could be wrong about all of that though, I dunno.

 

Damn Irish people!

An aside: Lionel Vital has decided to return to the Atlanta Falcons, which is okay with me.

 

[video=youtube;24MLV7TGWrs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24MLV7TGWrs[/video]

 

i would rather the dolphins take their time and get it right.

 

Here's the problem with this process, and I didn't even read Mando's article so this is just my opinion on the matter as someone who has both been hired and hired: When you interview a group of people and then move onto another group of people the message you're sending to the first group of candidates is that none of them were good enough. Especially when you send out a cute little message about "right now guy". What you've done is essentially label everyone who has already interviewed as the "right now" pile.

This is all well and good if the Dolphins aren't sold on any of the candidates they've already interviewed. But if they felt really good about any of the guys they have already interviewed and then go back to them to offer the job, they are going to feel like a fallback plan, whether it's true or not.

This whole process makes me really wonder if at least some of the guys Miami has already interviewed have told them "Thanks, but no thanks." based on what they discovered during the interview process. The "right guy vs. right now guy" reeks of a face saving message to the media.

 

I get what your saying and for the most part agree. But I also have to wonder if this 1st group was told that this was going to be a longer process where Ross and the rest of the interview group also had other they had to wait on. If that was the case then I don't see any reason the 1st batch of guys would take offense, I know I would not and understand the reasons. But if not then I would say its ok keep your job, I play second fiddle to no one.

 

I did not deduce this at all, and think it's kind of a stretch.

 

You have no idea what was explained to the candidates at all. For all you know, they told the candidates this would be happening.

I'm not saying Ross infallible, or that he's been 100% right on the football side of things, but I'm fairly certain a self made billionaire knows how to run an employee search.

 

I disagree with the top paragraph. He isn't hiring someone for middle management. Hes hiring an executive with a lot of power, and wants to hand that power to the right person.

The message he has sent is more like "We are doing more interviews to make sure we choose the correct man for the job. It may be one of the early candidates, but we are doing due diligence. "

 

But see you just tied yourself to a statement that you will have to live by.

What if Ross hires a GM that the majority here like but you do not? or you absolutely love but the majority do not?

I think you have set yourself and Ross up for failure no matter what. Not exactly objective, or are you just parroting?

 

You can interview 100 candidates. If you don't know what your looking for it doesn't matter.

I question whether Ross can actually identify the "best" candidate since I'm not even sure he knows what he wants.

Of course everyone is looking for a proven talent evaluator but I doubt Ross can figure out whether someone is actually good at it, particularly since the candidates' roles with other teams are nebulous and open to some interpretation.

The fact is, until 3 weeks ago, Ross seemingly thought Jeff Ireland was good at his job. It took two striaght losses and dissension in the structure to finally make him think otherwise. And he had Carl Petersen advising him prior to that as well.

I don't know why anyone should have any confidence in this crew to hire the best guy whether they interview 5 or 100

 

What a pathetic attempt at an article. Must be nice to get paid to write your own personal speculations, or views on the story. That's more of an opinion piece my Armando rather than actual factual reporting. No surprise really, I'm not sure that douche knows what factual reporting actually is.

What a joke.

 

How is it an opinion piece? It features quotes from team sources regarding the process.

 

There's only one single quote in that article and it is, "He is not on his phone or doesn't step out to take breaks," said the team source who is intimately familiar with the interviews. And all that implies is that Ross is not distracted during the interviews.

 

Its being said because the question was asked. Jesus, so now people are responsible for the questions asked of them?

 

Still the blanket term to say anything.

 

2socks and the 23rd have got to be brothers

Take your pick of who is who

 

Yeah or like, women with big ears...

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C'mon man, for you every woman seems like she has big ears.....

 

I use them as handle bars

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