Hope the holiday was good to you and that all your wildest dreams came true and all that jazz. But lets get back to the important stuff. It appears that the Miami Dolphins are going to retain coach Adam Gase and general manager Chris Grier for at least another season but will let go Vice President of Football Operations, Mike Tannenbaum. As per Scooby Axson of Sports Illustrated, because I’m not ever going to pay for news paper articles that are on the internet due to being normal, he’s reporting what Miami Herald reporter Armnando Salguero is saying which is…
According to the report, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross “is all but certain to dismiss” to dismiss Tannenbaum, who has spent the last four years with team.
Head coach Adam Gase and general manager Chris Grier are expected to keep their jobs, “barring some unexpected circumstance.”
Whoopty Doo What Does It All Mean
It means that Adam Gase, the man who got to the playoffs his first year largely due to the legs of Jay Ajayi, who has ridden the Dolphins of proven yet expensive talent only to replace them with worser cheaper talent, who sold the idea to owener Stephen Ross nearly four years ago that he could turn Ryan Tannehill into a real player because of his work with Peyton Manning and Jay Cutler and never brought anyone to compete with him giving the team no credible backup in case things went bad which they did, is coming back for at least another year under what you’d think is the shortest leash ever created. So, if you were a person who was writing Santa hoping for Adam Gase to get fired, I’m sorry to tell you that besides something unforeseen happening, like Jim Harbaugh deciding to leave Ann Arbor, Gase will be on the sideline or on the bench coaching this squad in 2019.
My Thoughts On the Matter
Because I know you deeply care about how I feel on this matter, I’m going to go ahead and tell you what I think. I’ll keep this as brief as I can because I plan on writing a longer blog on this topic after the season is over. But, if in fact this report is true, after quite a deal of thinking about it am strangely okay with Adam Gase coming back. Yes, I realize his play calling is bananas at times such as 3rd and 4th and short, the lack of QB sneaks, play action when nobody in the universe believes they’re running it, how he manages his players such as Kenyan Drake and Jakeem Grant. I fully understand how frustrating it is but his biggest mistake he made was convincing himself that Ryan Tannehill could be molded into a real NFL QB that could win games when they matter. Ryan obviously can’t and that’s on Gase.
But, he lost his starting QB last year and brought in a guy that wan never in his plans. This year the team has been completely decimated by injuries. Before you tell me about the Colts and Seahawks having more guys on IR, I know that so pump the brakes on flexing your memory about seeing that stat the other day. Those teams have QBs that can it done when the parts around them are sub-par and if you don’t have one of those guys, you’re not going to get much of anything accomplished in this league. Ryan needs a perfect world around him and this franchise found that out the hard way.
I personally believe Adam Gase is a smart guy and that he knows what he’s doing. He knew this whole year that this team wasn’t that good due to Tannehill and a very makeshift offensive line. Knowing that, I feel he had to call games to adjust for the terrible play from those two units. I’d like to see him operate an offense with anyone other than Tannehill or Cutler for a season. I’m okay with mortgaging the future for one of the QBs coming out if they believe either of them can learn fast because they each have the talent. If Miami wants to have someone else besides Gase call the offense, I’m okay with that as well. Ultimately, I feel Gase has won games in the NFL with an inferior team, one that he has his finger prints on creating, but still an inferior team none the less. I’d like to see what he can do with a competent QB who’s hungry and wants to make a name for themselves. We’ll see what happens in the coming days. We’re on to Buffalo, which will probably be a bloodbath not in our favor.
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