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Weaver has copped a bit of heat about how poorly the defense has played... and after a bit of prodding by (potential SOTY last season) Poyer, he has hit back.

https://www.si.com/nfl/dolphins/onsi/news/weaver-responds-to-jordan-poyer-complaints-about-dolphins-defense-01kd6mp04ftw

"I think, one, you're trying to bring in and install a new system, right?" Weaver said. "And then you're bringing all these, like, kind of free agent vet mercenaries that all have their opinions from other systems they've come from. So in doing that, you're trying to bring all that together. And you want to disregard the things they've done, but you want them to understand what you're trying to get built and buy into that. And there's a process that needs to occur. There's kind of like, you got to shed some layers of stuff that some of the things that they used to do in order to get what you want done and to do it our way. So, yeah, I could see where he could get that opinion."

What I've bolded is a pretty good indicator of what he walked into after Grier blew the salary cap, let over half the defensive starters walk to sign up Tua to a fat contract instead of playing out his 5th year option (gee, that decision really looks good now  ::)) and Fangio walked out when he saw what was happening.

Man, what a shitshow. Weaver somehow made something out of the skeleton that was left last season, and had even less bones to come up with something to work with this year. After Ramsey bitched his way outta here (congrats on your Pro Bowl vote, asshole) he was totally screwed before the season even began.

As much as our defense has looked rubbish out there, it's 99% due to lack of talent and resources. Last year masked some of the major deficiencies, and this is one area where I think it ain't coaching that's to blame.

I generally think that about 99% of the Dolphin's problems stem from poor cap space management and talent evaluation. (GM) And little or none of it has anything related to coaching. 

The positive for the Dolphins is the owner has finally realized Grier is incompetent and gotten rid of him.

The negative for the Dolphins is that fixing coaching issues is a lot easier than fixing GM issues.  Replace a bad coach and the new coach is comes in to a clean slate.  Your next GM won't be coming into a clean slate but a team so poorly mismanaged the GM will have almost no ability to improve the team next year. 

There is a good article on PFT now with Weaver saying "We can't be piecemealing this thing together in August". He did get screwed this year so I'm sure he is not happy about it.

Meanwhile, in Minnesota, on Christmas Day no less, I watched Andrew Van Ginkel ball out and play a huge role in knocking the Lions out of the playoffs

One of the cheapest guys we let go... along with Brandon Jones, who is also doing very well in Denver.

McDaniel sold that he was spectacularly good at offense to cover everything with just a few high priced players... and Grier then sold out whole the farm for it.

We all thought we were still rebuilding at the end of 2023 with a shot of making the peak, being a Superbowl... before realizing that was actually the peak, just making the playoffs, and it was all downhill from there when the first of the multiple credit cards came due.

If there was an absolute Antichrist failed rebuild to counter what Jimmy Johnston achieved with the Cowboys in their Superbowl Dynasty, then Ross and Grier achieved it in this massive botch of a rebuild. There was such a bounty of picks after the Tunsil trade, and almost all of them were completely wasted. Half of the ones that were good we allowed to walk anyway because we couldn't afford to keep them, and the other half...

We had a faint hint of real promise during 2023, but it's the same painful shitshow all over again.  If now even worse after the bills have continued to roll in, with no money to pay anyone.

Congratulations. The Dolphins made me cry again. At least in the Marino years there was some kind of hope... now it's a big fucking circus.

If the Owner, the Coaches and the Players don't take it seriously, how can you expect us to invest in this?

The 2023 team was the best Dolphins team since Marino retired (and arguably better than the last 5 teams Marino had).  This wasn't even the worst Dolphins rebuild of the previous decade.

I'd say every rebuild since JJ retired was clearly worse than this one.