Like a few of you right here, I’ve been a Miami Dolphins fan for a really very long time. I’ve been round lengthy sufficient that I can nonetheless keep in mind when former proprietor and co-founder Joe Robbie was thought-about extra of a foul man/unhealthy proprietor than the hero that some now maintain him up as. There may be at all times an “enemy of the followers from inside” who has been part of the franchise for so long as I can keep in mind. Generally, the enemy is a participant or the pinnacle coach, however I can’t keep in mind the final time {that a} common supervisor was not a minimum of partially disliked by a minimum of half of the fan base. I believe there is no such thing as a profitable GM in any sport who doesn’t have his/her fair proportion of ugly selections all through their tenure. The secret is clearly to make way more stable/good/nice selections than the crap/ugly/horrible selections.
That brings us to our very personal present common supervisor, Chris Grier. For higher or worse, Grier has survived up thus far by successful over proprietor Stephen Ross and making some stable selections regardless of his disastrous selections. Now that he has constructed an NFL observe crew in addition to a crew that has gone to the playoffs in back-to-back years, the usually destructive that you’d see about Grier has died down fairly a bit, however there’s nonetheless a lot of followers which might be more than pleased to declare that he “nonetheless sucks” or no matter different non-positive time period that they’ve provide you with for him. I’m personally cut up. I’m impressed with how he may utterly restock the roster whereas additionally presumably upgrading some positions after a number of high-profile departures this previous spring. I although can also’t assist however marvel why a few of these guys weren’t signed earlier. Why did you let Andrew Van Ginkle stroll over 3 million {dollars} a yr within the F? Are we simply not ever going to subscribe to the idea that you simply construct a stable, lasting franchise by drafting effectively after which holding the gamers that you simply develop? I may go on and on, however it’s all approach too unhappy.
So tonight’s query of the day is:
Do you assume that Miami Dolphins Chris Grier deserves extra credit score and optimistic critiques and fewer disgust and hate now that the crew seems to be in a very good place, or do you continue to see him as both a part of the issue or the most important downside that the crew nonetheless has?
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