One of the bigger topics in the NFL this year that’s not going anywhere any time soon is the mess that is the Miami Dolphins. Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and head coach Mike McDaniel are currently a headlining duet – Tua Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – on the 2025 Test Stephen’s Patience Tour. You should see the t-shirts.
NFL insider Ian Rapoport weighed in on the job-security situation yesterday on YouTube with a take that pretty much everyone could expect. It’s fine, it’s not rocket science with the Dolphins right now, we all know that the days of McDaniel and general manager Chris Grier are numbered.
“(The Miami Dolphins) are going to roll forward with what they have, hoping the results are different,” Rapoport said, highlighting the true insanity of Dolphins’ ownership. “I think one thing that the past week’s events has showed us is that change is coming to the Dolphins. Obviously (Mike) McDaniel is someone that Stephen Ross really likes and respects, he supported him, he chose him, he has invested in him with a big-time contract extension — does not want to fire him. The results though, have to change.”
They won’t.
For the Miami Dolphins, “change is coming to the organization”
There must be a method to owner Stephen Ross’s line of thinking. Because he has a failing head coach and a quarterback that in all likelihood needs to get a fresh start elsewhere, Ross could be thinking that McDaniel is the guy to lead this ship down the super-high-draft-pick road. Thusly, they could draft a suitable replacement for the aforementioned signal caller guy that needs to go.
Whether or not that’s actually the case, I don’t know. But, Rapoport says that changes are coming one way or the other.
“And I think because of the ugly losses, because of Tua Tagovailoa throwing teammates under the bus and then recanting and walking all of that back — because of that, it has forced the entire nation to look at the Miami Dolphins and say ‘what are they gonna do?’,” Rapoport continues. “So the Dolphins are going to get back to work this week with the hopes that the results are different, but I can pretty confidently say change is coming to the organization. It’s just a matter of how and when.”
Former player thinks this Miami Dolphins’ regime has to end
Rapoport isn’t the only one saying the Dolphins have go make changes. Former Dolphins’ guard Richie Incognito said yesterday that the entire situation is a disaster.
“I hate the whole situation they have brewing down there,” Incognito said. “This is a dumpster fire and you have McDaniel and Tua throwing bags of gasoline into the dumpster fire. We look at this guy on TV – I do not see a leader of men. When I’m going out there on Sunday and I want to rip someone’s head off, I’m not getting fired up by this guy’s (McDaniel’s) pregame speech.
“Tua, last week, was talking about guys being late and he’s talking about leadership. Well, the leadership starts and ends with Tua because you’re the franchise quarterback. Everyone was taking a side on ‘Was he pointing fingers at the locker room?’ I think when he said, ‘leadership,’ he was pointing the finger at Mike McDaniel. When you have people constantly late in a professional sports organization, that shows fractures. That shows favoritism. … That, to me, is the biggest flaw in this entire operation.”
I wonder if there are office pools in South Florida taking bets on when the hammer comes down. Does McDaniel get fired before Tua actually gets benched? When does Grier have to turn in his playbook? Are there parlays available?
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