Stephan Ross keeps getting richer as he announces the sale of investment group. ESPN continues to cause trouble in South Florida... What would it take for Stephen Ross to fire Mike McDaniel or Chris Grier? What is the Dolphins biggest need to fill in the off season?
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00:00Oh, uh, this is just, uh, tweeted out by Adam shift.
00:03Uh, uh, Steven Ross has announced officially the sale of a limited
00:09interest in the team, the Miami dolphins to, uh, heiress management,
00:13which is headed by Joe side, who owns the Brooklyn nets, uh, Steven
00:17Ross, as we continue our relentless pursuit of building the best in
00:20class organization could be happy to be welcoming heiress Joe side,
00:25Ollie Weisberg to our investment group.
00:28They just bring invaluable expertise to the table with a shared commitment
00:31into innovation, growth, and doing things first-class together.
00:34We prioritize blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:36Investment of the dolphins.
00:37He's got more money and he's getting a check for like a billion.
00:40Yeah.
00:41That's it.
00:43Yeah.
00:44So congrats to Steven Ross.
00:47I mean, I'm not going to ever say anything negative about Steven
00:54Ross and it has nothing to do with Michigan.
00:57Because I told you when he took over and he started throwing
01:01money around, like it was nothing.
01:04I said, he may not do it right, but you will appreciate the level of
01:11commitment he's willing to make, to make the organization one of the
01:17best from spending his own money on, on stadium renovations to building
01:23that facility across the street to all the different events he has,
01:29including formula one, right?
01:32He has gone far and beyond just owning the dolphins to do things to
01:39kind of, you know, bolster that area.
01:45Yeah, for sure.
01:46It's become, it's become an attraction, right?
01:49You know, like the whole area has become an attraction from that standpoint.
01:53I may think, you know, and he's done well by not talking so much.
01:57Oh, that's helped.
01:58Right.
01:59But I may have problems with some of the monies they spend, but I'm never
02:07going to have a problem with them trying to spend money to fix it.
02:11You don't understand.
02:12A lot of organizations do not do that.
02:15A lot of organizations that you would have the same stadium.
02:20If the city and the state wouldn't put money into it.
02:24So from that standpoint, he means, well, doesn't always do well, but if
02:31you mean, well, I can work with that.
02:35Uh, also the mention of this, so this was a little strange, but like ESPN did
02:41like one of the ESPN has been in stirring up trouble down here.
02:44Yeah.
02:45This is a NFL week 15 latest buzz from Dan Graziano and Jeremy Fowler.
02:51And they were talking about like some of the jobs that could be opening.
02:53And they were talking about the giants Raiders and Jags and those jobs opening
02:58up, but then just kind of out of nowhere.
03:02Um, what they threw dolphins in here.
03:06Yeah.
03:06Graziano.
03:07He says, this is outside speculation from people I'm talking to around the
03:11rather than anything that's definitely will or should happen, but some have
03:15their eyes on Miami and wonder whether there's a change if things end badly
03:21this season, though, Mike McDaniel did sign an extension in August.
03:25Here's what I would say about that.
03:28And, and, and here's where we all collectively have to put our big brains on.
03:37Okay.
03:38There is only a select few coaches that run the system that
03:45Mike McDaniel currently runs.
03:50You have a unique quarterback that can Excel in that system.
03:58Who loves him?
03:59Who loves him?
04:00If you change coaches and then your quarterback ends up in a system that
04:05doesn't fit his skillset, then what are you going to do?
04:09Because now to get rid of a six or $7 million coach, you've
04:15ruined a $50 million quarterback.
04:19Do, do, do people understand the logic behind that?
04:24That sounds ridiculous.
04:26So like, if we're looking at this, all right, if things end badly, right.
04:30We're talking cat.
04:31Okay.
04:31So we're talking like one in three to end the season.
04:33Right.
04:34And they would finish seven and 10.
04:36That has to be like, cause if they finish eight and nine, nine and eight,
04:39I just can't see with, with, uh, with two, a missing four games.
04:42Correct.
04:43I just can't see Steven Ross even thinking about firing the coach.
04:46Um, I, it never seems like Chris Greer's ever on the hot seat.
04:50I mean, he's been here forever.
04:51It never seems like there's ever any talk of that being the thing, but I'm with you,
04:56man, like, look, they've linked up to Tua, anybody who wants any, any complaints
05:00about Tua, I'm not saying that he's without criticism, but you guys know I'm
05:02he's what the, if you made a list of the dolphins and the concerns you have right
05:08now, quarterback is where on that list.
05:10Is it in the top 10?
05:11No, because I would say no, because I would say number one would be secondary.
05:24Yeah.
05:25Secondary number two would be offensive line.
05:27I'd say probably one is pass rush.
05:29Doesn't it?
05:29Well, and, and here's what I'm trying to, like, I'm trying to look at how much of it
05:36is injury there and how much of it is schematic and how much of it is player.
05:45Okay.
05:46Like when you talk about pass rush, you can't talk about the job sealer and,
05:50and Kalea's Campbell have done.
05:52And then chop Robinson coming on, even though you're not talking about
05:57and then chop Robinson coming on, even though you've lost your two main pass
06:01rushers, they've done a really good job.
06:05So I'm not going to just throw pass rush in there because as you start getting
06:10guys back and healthy, right, that is going to look better.
06:15So the secondary with the injuries and the guys that you've had to play.
06:25Yikes.
06:27Right.
06:27Then I would go with offensive line because no matter what happens, this is
06:32one of the few teams in the, in the league that have to be nine, 10 deep on
06:36the offensive line and you have to start the season with nine or 10 guys that
06:43could be playing on Sunday and a lot of teams don't have to do that.
06:50You fix that.
06:52Then I'm gonna go with run game because I personally think it's an attitude.
07:00I personally think it's more coaching and scheme as to why they
07:07run the ball the way they do.
07:10Because if I took that, if I took, if I took Dan Campbell and put him in there
07:16and said, you run, you, you control the run game, the run game will look
07:20differently because of the attitude.
07:22This is what would have to happen for this to be a formula.
07:24All right.
07:25The dolphins would have to go one in three.
07:27And Steven Ross looks at what you're saying.
07:30And I would say either has to hire Ben Johnson from the lions.
07:34Cause he's been like the hot candidate and say, well, cause he's usually like
07:37he's any of you, I think he used to be on the dolphin staff too, because
07:40he was on that Campbell staff.
07:42So that would maybe be a move possibly.
07:45And you, and you sell two on and be like, look, man, we got to be
07:48able to run around well-rounded.
07:49Mike McDaniel, too many words.
07:51Uh, or, or he does the home run thing, which is what he was going to do the
07:56last time around and he's got Belichick on hold, like that's the only, those
08:00are the only ways that I would see that.
08:04Here's and, and I love Belichick as a coach, but if you're going to bring
08:15somebody and one of the things why I think you keep Mike McDaniel, give him
08:21an opportunity to grow as a head coach and understand where I'm coming from.
08:29I was on Bill Belichick's team when they ran him out of town and the players, you
08:37know, I mean, we, that team was the best it had been in a few years.
08:45And they ran him out of town, but why?
08:48I don't know, but that's just kind of how it went.
08:52So I'm always going to be a little cautious for this reason.
08:59New coach.
09:01Um, he's got to grow too.
09:05Now, what I would do is have a conversation with Mike, say, Mike, look, look, look,
09:12look, there's certain moments in the game.
09:15Where we need to be able to run the ball and need to be able
09:18to run a ball a certain way.
09:21And we don't either have the players or the system to do it.
09:25And all these teams that are having success when they get in these moments,
09:28they can run the ball, run out the clock, get a yard or whatever.
09:32I mean, they were inside the one that took them five plays.
09:35Yeah.
09:35But I feel like Steven Ross, when he sits, Mike McDaniel down, he like
09:38might be down, does the two, the two index fingers by the mouth and goes,
09:43I anticipated this question.
09:45And he's going to have like some long-winded answer.
09:48I might.
09:48And see, I was like, just go, just, just fine.
09:50You keep the job.
09:51You, you know, you don't, you don't think that these are
09:58they're valid concerns for sure.
10:00Because you, you have to listen.
10:03There comes a point in every game in every season where you just got to line
10:06up and play physical football and run the football that that's a fact of football.
10:11This team has struggled doing that.
10:15What about we, we have a toughness committee that's run by Zach
10:21Thomas and Tim Bowens and they just bring the, they, they, they, they have
10:26to pass tough tests to get past like our own man, Campbell contingency
10:33run by Zach Thomas and Tim Bowens.
10:35That Mike McDaniel now has muscle to go to.
10:37Right.
10:38And then he goes, do they pass the tough test?
10:40And they even give you the Roman gods, the Roman emperor, thumbs up,
10:43thumbs down, and that will determine whether you're on the roster or not.
10:50I just think Mike needs to grow from this.
10:53I think he needs to see it because here's the deal.
10:58If you're an analytics guy, if you're a numbers guy, you have to see this
11:01going on in football and know how you have to be able to do it to be successful.
11:07It's not a secret.
11:09All the teams that are running the football, when they get up in the snow
11:13and they get, you know, at those crucial moments in the game, all the teams that
11:17can run football or have winning records, even the teams that are supposedly,
11:25you know, Sean McVay and, and, and you go out to, to, um, to San Francisco.
11:34They had a physical runner.
11:36Yes.
11:37This team does not.
11:40I'm just saying Zach Thomas, CTO, no chief toughness officer.
11:55We don't have to work on this.
11:58Yeah, but, but no.
12:00So, and, and listen, I've been saying this for a while.
12:06This is nothing new.
12:09And you can have all that trickery or whatever, and that's fine.
12:13And that's great.
12:15Okay.
12:16But how many times during the game are we going to sit here and watch second
12:19and 14, because every team knows you're going to try to run the ball outside.
12:25Right.
12:28And I, every listen, when they got inside the five and got stumped two times, I
12:34sent Tobin a text.
12:35Here we go.
12:37It's, it's painful.
12:38It's painful.
12:38You feel like the thing that's annoying about it is like last year.
12:43I don't know.
12:43You gotta get out of here.
12:44Cause you gotta do your thing.
12:45But like the last year, the thing that was frustrating about it was like, man, it
12:48felt automatic with most or last year.
12:50Right.
12:50Like I know that they didn't have as I know, I know they still do a lot of that
12:55outside, outside zone stuff, but like, I, it just, it feels like you're holding your
12:59breath every time they're in the red zone now.
13:01Here's here's the deal though.
13:03Like don't underestimate the other side of the ball that you, they game planning
13:09for that, like here at some point in time, during every football game you watch,
13:19it's not about the X's and O's.
13:20It's about the Jimmy's and Joe's.
13:22That means that your attitude and how you do things, it doesn't matter what
13:25defense they're in, you're going to have success.
13:28It's that level of toughness that gets things done at certain moments of a game.
13:32Can you say with this offense unequivocally that when it gets to those
13:42moments that you can put a back in the backfield, you can put two tight ends and
13:47we can play physical football and run out the clock or get it in the end zone.
13:51No, you know, there's going to be some kind of trickery, a fade, a
13:55fade to a five, nine receiver.
13:59They still trying to do that.
14:01The only thing that saved him was the damn receiver grabbed him.
14:05That's true.
14:06That did happen.