Let’s indulge ourselves in a little hypothetical. Steven Ross has fired Chris Grier and YOU have been hired as the new General Manager. He’s given you a 3 year mandate, legitimate Super Bowl contender or you’re fired as well.

What do you do?

 

Well since I started this, I suppose I need to state what I would do.

First off, I would take a single page out of Grier’s playbook. I’m shopping Hill, Waddle, Achane, Seiler, Phillips, Chubb, Eichenburgh…I’m going to see what I can get for all of them, even if it’s a package deal, multiple players for a 1st round pick.

Becuase of the salary cap hit, I’m hanging on to Tua but letting him know, he’s gone at the end of the season. If he wants a shot at starting for another team, better play his *** off, otherwise I’ll simply cut him, eat the salary cap hit and nobody will want him. Secondly, I’m going to insist McDaniel run quarterback by committee, Tua in the 1st half, Ewers in the 2nd. See if he is an heir apparent or do we need to draft one.

Rebuilding in the off season; Will McDaniel still be with the team? Well, that all depends on what I see for the remainder of this season, but seeing how the offense has imploded without Tua, I sense it would be the same. Secondly, if McDaniel is indeed gone, I’m going for it…I’m tampering. That’s right, I’m taking a page out of Joe Robbie’s play book, not the weak Ross/Grier playbook. I’m going for John Harbaugh. That’s right, I’m talking Ross into making it worth his while to leave Baltimore and come to Miami, just like Robbie did with Shula. Seems to me that worked out well for the Dolphin. Thirdly, I’m focusing on the trenches, particularly on the offensive line. I’m going to draft me 1600-1700 lbs of the meanest corn fed boys that love to smash a defensive lineman in the mouth and then I’m going to find the BEST offensive line coach in the league and bring him in. I’m going to turn the Dolphins offense into the meanest most physical line the league has ever known. I want that offensive line so darned good that even I could run thru the A gap for a 5-10 yard gain.

With an offensive line THAT good, I don’t need a GREAT quarterback, I need a GOOD quarterback. I don’t need a Marino or Manning, I need a Montana. I need a field general. Would it be Ewers, a quarterback in the draft or a free agent? Would have to wait and see what’s what and when. That’s just on the offensive side of the ball, defensively?

Again, the trenches. I’m building the defensive line that’s a brick wall, that no running play gets pass the line of scrimmage. Linebackers, that’s year 2 project but in the secondary gotta get at least one shutdown corner. Need the reincarnation of Surtain and Madison.

rebuilding everything you want can’t be done in a single offseason, but I would definitely set the tone that the Dolphins were no longer a soft finesse team. Playing the Dolphins is going to equate to a physically painful day.