Dave Hyde: Flores out, Grier stays — Dolphins owner Steve Ross got it all backwards if this was about football

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 shot presumption — if this was successful information astir football.

Which it wasn’t entirely.

“Collaboration and communication,” proprietor Steve Ross said were the reasons for firing Flores.

Translation: It was astir relationships again wrong this team. Remember erstwhile Grier took implicit and said, “The dysfunction stops now?”

It hasn’t stopped. It continues. Ross doubled-down connected Grier and backmost Tua Tagovailoa implicit Flores. Flores wasn’t moving with them, a root told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. He besides disrespected Ross successful immoderate mode successful a mode that led to his firing.

That fits Flores’ developed portfolio of having occupation moving good with people. He went done 3 violative coordinators and 4 violative enactment coaches successful 3 years. That’s wherefore helium started 1-7 this past year, wherefore this play was sunk — why, successful short, the agelong database of radical helium fired successful 3 years don’t person overmuch compassion for his departure.

He besides was 19-14 arsenic manager the past 2 years with unsettled rosters. His teams played hard – truthful helium was getting done to the players who mattered.

If Flores had his idiosyncratic shortcomings to enactment on, Grier had shot longcomings. Do we truly request to spell down his laundry database of unit decisions from the draught misses and free-agency mis-spendings?

Are you trying to physique a winning shot squad oregon a kum-bye-ya campfire sing-a-long?

Grier’s past 3 years of overseeing a rebuild tin beryllium condensed to 1 decision:

Tagovailoa implicit Justin Herbert.

That determination unsocial gets a wide manager fired. The premier crushed to rebuild successful the monolithic mode that sacrificed 3 play was to get an elite quarterback.

Has Tua shown thing to beryllium The Man?

“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 Ross get support to speech to Houston backmost Deshaun Watson astatine the commercialized deadline? Why see trading for a subordinate with 22 sexual-misconduct allegations against him if you similar Tua truthful much?

This enactment is confused close astatine the the top. Ross does 1 happening – and present says another. He’s acceptable to springiness up connected Tua for Watson. Now he’s firing Flores successful portion implicit his narration with Grier and Tua.

There was a shouting lucifer astatine halftime betwixt Flores and Tua 2 Sundays agone arsenic the Dolphins were being dismantled by Tennessee. Big deal, huh? A shot manager and his backmost yelling. Unless it went acold retired of bounds, that was each Sunday betwixt Bill Parcells and Phil Simms, happened astatine times with Dan Marino and Don Shula.

Ross, too, didn’t adjacent the Watson doorway connected Monday.

“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.”

No, no, a 1000 times no. A determination similar that, involving allegations similar that, starts with the owner. Do you privation idiosyncratic with those issues to beryllium the look of your franchise? Yes oregon no. In oregon out.

Ross had this option, too: Clean house. Decide it’s clip for a wholly caller regime. Flores has occupation getting on with people. Grier isn’t bully astatine constructing a team. That would person been a viable thought alternatively than his customary binary mode of making these decisions of a) stays and b) goes.

Look astatine Ross’s moves since taking implicit successful 2009: GM Jeff Ireland stays and manager Tony Sparano goes; manager Joe Philbin stays and Ireland goes; vice president of shot operations Mike Tannenbaum and Grier enactment and Philbin goes; Grier stays and Adam Gase and Tannenbaum go; Grier stays and Flores goes.

Ross likes the shot-gun wedding of forced matches betwixt GM and coaches. How’s it working?

The adjacent manager apt 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. Is helium putting Michigan supra the Dolphins interests? A just question considering Harbaugh is rumored to beryllium moving to a pro job.

Ross says helium doesn’t person an thought of the adjacent coach. Jim Caldwell would beryllium different 1 to watch. He was hired astatine the commencement of the Flores epoch earlier going retired the doorway for reportedly wellness reasons.

The squad proprietor doubled-down erstwhile again connected Grier. He kept the feline who has been astatine the controls of unit problems for years. There’s immoderate good, immoderate atrocious — and that’s however you get to mediocre seasons.

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?

Review those names: Philbin. Tannenbaum. Gase. Grier. Throw successful Dawn Aponte and Dennis Hickey successful the beforehand bureau considering they tally it successful assorted ways. Have immoderate worked out?

His champion prosecute was Flores.

And present he’s gone.

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 the travel illustration reads similar a roundabout. Flores adjacent refused to accidental who called plays aboriginal successful the season. It turned retired to beryllium Charlie Fry, Tua’s one-time backstage manager who antecedently was Central Michigan’s violative coordinator. No wonderment wherefore helium didn’t privation to say.

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 it 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.”

He had the prime to cleanable location completely. That would person been the determination since Flores disrespected the owner. Instead, the manager goes and the GM stays. The Dolphins, from a shot view, got this 1 each backwards.