Dave Hyde: Flores out, Grier stays — Dolphins owner Steve Ross got it all backwards

What now?

Or, to look astatine it from different angle, considering the Miami Dolphins got it each backwards:

Now what?

Brian Flores is retired arsenic coach. General Manager Chris Grier stays. That’s the reverse of the mode alteration should person travel from immoderate sane and rational view.

Flores was 19-14 the past 2 rebuilding years. He was fixed a backmost who has shown nary motion of being peculiar by Grier. Flores was 4-2 against the vaunted New England Patriots.

And helium had occupation getting on with people. And hiring a unit — particularly an violative staff. That’s wherefore helium started 1-7 this past year, wherefore this play was sunk — why, successful short, helium was fired Monday morning.

But if Flores had his shortcomings Grier had longcomings, didn’t he? Do we truly request to spell down his laundry database of unit decisions from the draught misses and free-agency mis-spendings?

His database of issues with this franchise dates with drafting and escaped bureau from the clip helium took implicit his relation arsenic wide manager successful 2015.

His past 3 years of overseeing a rebuild tin beryllium condensed to 1 decision:

Tua Tagovailoa implicit Justin Herbert.

That unsocial is simply a determination that gets a wide manager fired. The premier crushed to rebuild successful the monolithic mode the Dolphins did was to get an elite quarterback, The Man to physique a franchise around.

Has Tua shown thing to beryllium that guy?

“I person a batch of assurance successful Tua,’ Ross said. “I deliberation the adjacent caput manager volition enactment with him. I deliberation he’ll grow.”

So wherefore did helium get support to speech to Deshaun Watson astatine the commercialized deadline? Why see making a subordinate with 22 sexual-assault allegations against him the look of the franchise?

Ross didn’t adjacent that door, either

“It volition beryllium up to caput manager what helium does with quarterback,’ helium said erstwhile asked astir Watson. “It volition beryllium connected adjacent caput manager and absorption helium wants to take.”

That manager won’t beryllium Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh. Ross, Michigan’s biggest booster, made a tally astatine Harbaugh a decennary agone and said helium won’t bash truthful again. Nor does helium person an thought of the adjacent coach, helium said.

“Collaboration and communication,’ were the issues Flores was fired for, Ross said.

Ross didn’t occurrence astatine the presumption that’s the Dolphins’ champion accidental retired of the wilderness of 2 decades. He doubled-down connected the problem. He kept the feline who has been astatine the controls of unit problems for years.

Ross wants to triumph badly. But does helium cognize what it takes to win? Does helium recognize what’s holding this squad back?

It’s just to inquire this, too: Has Ross made a hiring connected his squad you tin get down and accidental it was great?

His champion prosecute was Flores.

And present he’s gone.

And, again, Flores wasn’t perfect. Just inquire the coaches helium cold-heartedly fired the past fewer years. Just look astatine the blunders helium made either successful hiring oregon firing his staff. That’s the cardinal occupation again this season.

No NFL squad should person an violative unit wherever it’s not evident who’s calling plays. Flores refused to accidental who was. It turned retired to beryllium Charley Fry, Tua’s one-time backstage manager who antecedently was Central Michigan’s violative coordinator.

When that experimentation failed, helium turned to George Godsey, who seemed to straighten retired the discourtesy arsenic champion helium could. It was functional fixed the mismatched pieces.

A troubled violative line. No moving backs. Wide receivers who, arsenic their vocation portfolios show, got wounded a lot. And who assembled that roster?

The aforesaid GM who volition assemble the adjacent year.

Who has survived 8 authorities changes successful the beforehand office.

Who hasn’t seen a playoff triumph successful his Dolphins time.

Grier stays. Flores goes.

I’ll instrumentality each responsibility,’ Ross said. “I americium the proprietor of the team. If it’s not working, it’s up to me. That’s wherefore we’re making a change.”

Grier stays. Flores goes. The Dolphins, arsenic they person truthful galore times successful caller years, got this 1 each backwards.