It looks like the rats might be fleeing the sinking ship!
The Miami Dolphins once again flopped hard in a big moment, losing to the Green Bay Packers 30-17 Thanksgiving night. Now it seems the tea leaves are saying there’s something not jiving with Chris Grier and the Dolphins staff and the Miami players and the staff. A real free for all seems to be brewing and the next step appears to be a breakup. Likely a few more losses will cement the divorce.
What to make of the rising dysfunction
Unbelievably, we had linebacker Jordyn Brooks call the team soft after the Packers loss. This was just two weeks after former Dolphin safety DeShon Elliot called the Phins soft. Cracks are forming everywhere. The rumor mill now has unnamed players complaining about how he handled the cold weather. Can you take these rumors as gospel? No. But at the same time, I can see these rumor being true as well. One thing you can bet with the best pay per heads is that all these reports are pointing to a new era of dysfunction if the Phins keep losing.
And on top of this, we found out this week that Grier never notified either McDaniel or Weaver about the Shaq Barrett situation and both coaches found out about it at the podium through the media questioning them about it. If McDaniel is in charge of the team, shouldn’t he get this info? And if not, then certainly the coaches shouldn’t have found out at the podium so they can look foolish. Clearly, Grier wasn’t being a team player or civil. Maybe all the hype about Grier being a ‘nice guy’ who ‘only wants to serve the coaches’ isn’t how it really works or who he really is.
Heck, last year Grier mocked fans concerns about the offensive line and when the fans were proven right, he simply doubled down this year. Now, given the collapse of this team you can almost hear the rats scurrying down the gangplank.
History has too many trends now
Last year, when Vic Fangio left the Dolphins, we found out he didn’t know who was coming to his practice field. Grier would sign guys and send them to practice without ever telling Fangio, who would see new players show up without ever getting a chance to plan his practice with them in mind. All we were told to focus on was that Fangio wasn’t good so good riddance, he never wanted to be here anyway, and some players let out to the media that he ‘wasn’t a nice guy’. Then we heard from Ron Jaworski a close friend of Fangio that plenty of Phins players were lazy.
Given how we are seeing the defense respond this season and how ‘soft’ is the buzz word from the players themselves, maybe Fangio wasn’t the villain.
Maybe the villain was higher up the totem pole.
Grier must go!
Grier has always been a guy to lay the blame on others and skate free of punishment. It seems McDaniel and Weaver are now down range of his aim instead of Fangio, Boyer, Gailey, Flores, Gase, and Tannenbaum. This isn’t’ to say any one these guys are innocent, but maybe Grier has been a far bigger problem than the media narratives purported. Every time we enter this phase of failure reports start rising to cut someone down, but it never seems to be about Grier.
You notice that?
It’s almost as if he is made of Teflon… or he’s a master in the arts of media assassination.
Well, I for one hope the Teflon Don’s days are numbered.
If just one good thing can come from the Dolphins 2024 Season it would be Grier getting his pink slip. Go Phins!!!