The Dolphins have struggled in recent years to find any real flow or rhythm. A big part of the problem is that the owner of the team doesn’t spend nearly enough time in the building to assess how or where or why things are going.

Stephen Ross lives and works in New York. He’s one of the NFL’s various absentee owners. And this has not helped the Dolphins craft the kind of consistency that allows long-term stability and success.
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Wherever the Dolphins go from here, the problems will continue as long as Ross serves as an absentee owner. As another owner said several years ago when asked about the fact that Ross doesn’t live and work in his team’s city, “I love competing against him.”

Meh, I don't know how much of a role this really plays. Jerry Jones is far from an absentee owner and... yeah.

Makes the argument for having a czar, but that didn’t go well with Parcells.
Is this something you trust Marino with (ala Elway), or do you look at a former HC who has won a Super Bowl?

Miami Dolphins firing coach Brian Flores is an unjustified travesty of a clown-show owner | Opinion BY GREG COTE UPDATED JANUARY 10, 2022 3:27 PM


Unjustified. Unfair. Shocking. Egregiously premature. Embarrassing. Irresponsible. Dumbfounding. Not enough words have yet been invented to adequately and fully describe the national clown show the Miami Dolphins became Monday with the sudden and utterly stupid firing of head coach Brian Flores.

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Ross firing one of the league’s few Black head coaches with extremely dubious cause and already having in mind his white replacement — not a good look, that. “I’m not going to be the one who takes Jim Harbaugh away from the University of Michigan,” Ross stated Monday. People who fully buy that might be almost as gullible as those folks awaiting the return of J.F.K. Jr. at Dealey Plaza.

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There is a line of succession. The next Dolphins majority owner, business partner Bruce Beal Jr., already is known. It’s a matter of when Ross wishes to step down. It can’t come soon enough.

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Meh, I don't know how much of a role this really plays. Jerry Jones is far from an absentee owner and... yeah.

Here we go with the racial stuff. The owner that hired a black GM, black head coach and has a Polynesian starting QB and donated tens of millions to combat systemic racism is now firing the black head coach he hired because he's black.

We've reached a new level of stupid.

Here we go with the racial stuff. The owner that hired a black GM, black head coach and has a Polynesian starting QB and donated tens of millions to combat systemic racism is now firing the black head coach he hired because he's black.

We've reached a new level of stupid.

Miami Dolphins firing coach Brian Flores is an unjustified travesty of a clown-show owner | Opinion BY GREG COTE UPDATED JANUARY 10, 2022 3:27 PM


Unjustified. Unfair. Shocking. Egregiously premature. Embarrassing. Irresponsible. Dumbfounding. Not enough words have yet been invented to adequately and fully describe the national clown show the Miami Dolphins became Monday with the sudden and utterly stupid firing of head coach Brian Flores.

From what Allbright reported, Ross pushed for Tua. That doesn't sound like absenteeism.

For me that in and of itself does not speak to or against absenteeism. Being present in the building and seeing how the day to day dynamics of the team its interactions etc... are going, I think is what the author of the article had in mind not draft day decisions.

He needs a true football czar to come in and take care of business.

Here we go with the racial stuff. The owner that hired a black GM, black head coach and has a Polynesian starting QB and donated tens of millions to combat systemic racism is now firing the black head coach he hired because he's black.

We've reached a new level of stupid.

I understand that is where he is going with it. But every local reporter talks about Ross knowing exactly what is going on day to day, and who is responsible for decisions being made. Ross himself has interjected, for better or worse, on certain decisions. That is part of it too.

Things I noticed about the offense aside from the obvious that the offensive line sucks and the playcalling was imbalanced.

1. Receivers often were running the wrong route.
2. Offensive linemen were often missing blocking assignments. Not just getting beat, but sometimes blocking air.
3. Several instances where there was confusion before plays, where you could see a player yelling at another player telling them they were out of position.

A lot of people are pointing at Tua and his lack of ability to throw deep (I could post several videos of him throwing deep). But the entire offense seemed like a discombobulated mess.

Bingo