Miami Dolphins Thread of Despair

i know i'm likely the only ilx'or interested in the dolphins, but anyone interested in good comedy, or who is morbidly fascinated watching an organization disassemble from incompetence and bumbling, should read-up on miami's off-season.

a sampling today on twitter, reacting to the hiring of dennis hickey as GM, from those who cover the team:

Armando Salguero ‏@ArmandoSalguero -- Dolphins Scorecard: 4 candidates declined first interview, 1 finalist declined second interview. 1 man offered the job turned it down. (NOTE: now it's confirmed that two, not one, finalists were offered the job and turned it down; nick caserio and lake dawson)

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Armando Salguero ‏@ArmandoSalguero -- Dolphins say reason Nick Caserio didn't accept job is he wanted to fire Joe Philbin and Dolphins wouldn't allow.

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Armando Salguero ‏@ArmandoSalguero -- Dolphins tell me Lake Dawson was willing to keep Philbin but wanted say over his status in future. Ross keeps that.

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Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet -- When #Dolphins search began, Ross said GM would have “autonomous responsibility for 53-man.” Yet candidates believed Philbin would have it

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cover32 Dolphins ‏@cover32_MIA -- Last resort, second last resort...all semantics...fact is that (hickey) was option number 5 or 6 on the list.

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Adam Beasley ‏@AdamHBeasley -- I've been told that several Dolphins players have already privately expressed that they want out of this situation. Real consequences coming.

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Adam Beasley ‏@AdamHBeasley -- Another take: "Tampa is psyched. They were going to fire (new dolphins GM dennis hickey) anyway. Now they don't have to pay him."

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Chris Kouffman ‏@ckparrot -- Dolphins situation worse than I thought.

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mike freeman ‏@mikefreemanNFL -- Some of the things personnel men around the NFL are saying about the Dolphins is hilarious. Lots of jokes, disbelief.

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Chris Kouffman ‏@ckparrot -- Brian Gaine, who acted as de facto GM during Senior Bowl and was supposed to be the reason it was OK for Philbin & Co to skip it, is LEAVING.

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Rizz ‏@Rizzmigizz -- These Dolphins have done the impossible, made me wish they were playing again so the pain would go away. It's normally the opposite

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Be7VG4_CEAAnu93.jpg

to have a guy come in from the same division and want to fire the HC as a condition, probably you just want to can that HC anyway. amazing really.

interestingly, caserio tonight said he liked philbin, and didn't insist on firing him as a condition of caserio taking the job. it's the fins' representatives who said caserio made that demand. in that regard

Chris Kouffman ‏@ckparrot -- Dolphins say Caserio turned job down because he wanted to fire Philbin. Caserio directly denies he wanted to fire Philbin. I believe Caserio

oh boy

more on this:

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter -- Source close to Lake Dawson insists that, for GM job, he never requested final say on whether MIA HC Joe Philbin would be back after 2014.

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Chris Kouffman ‏@ckparrot -- If you ask me the Dolphins are lying their asses off about their cover story for why Caserio and Dawson rejected them.

I never even think about the Miami dolphins during the season, but this is great fun

three of the worst linemen in the league on one offensive line. you dream of luck like this.

last dropback, center and both guards got pushed around like IKEA furniture.

no matter how many draft picks we throw at the position, we get Dig Dug characters at the position

lol solved the offense problem now the defense breaks.

I kinda wonder once you do get one of those fancy passing attacks what happens is that teams have to throw the ball to keep up and the you find out your team cannot stop the pass.

This was pretty much the Colts under Manning all the time and really kinda the Dolphins when they had Marino too.

Yeah I didn't start watching the Fins til 1989 and though he has a really good defense in 1992, the fear was often "great, we got the lead! How long will our defense keep it?".

Then by the time he acquired Jimmy Johnson's defense, they were running the ball much more than with Shula (without talented RBs to do it) and Dan had lost a step and couldn't take advantage

Hilarous thing was the Dolphins were all about the defense and running game before Marino started blasting bombs left and right with very workman like QB play (ex. David Woodly took them to a superbowl with the Killer Bs. D).