The Dolphins are starting to get a reputation for being needlessly dickish...Jason Taylor, Dez Brayant, the going after Harbaugh and retaining Sapano, Pennington calling out the Dolphins for benching Henne, now Mallett.
Running a team is not a popularity contest so sometimes you need to do dickish moves and be heartless. Trading or cutting players, taking a hard line on holdouts etc. But the Dolphins are developing a pattern of doing dickish moves for no reason. Telling Mallett they were going to draft him when they weren't did nothing to help the Dolphins.
The "history of dickish" moves started when Wayne hired Dan to be VP and Dan thought he was going to have some say and control over personel moves but found out he was later a puppet and a figure head to shake hands and kiss baby's with no power.... so he quit a couple days later. Pretty much lying to the most popular player in the franchises history and making him look stupid....DICKISH MOVE! That's where it started!
The Dolphins franchise has sold their soul to the devil not ONCE but now TWICE! And this what you get. First it was Saban, and his rules of not wanting office secretaries to look him in the eye when he was walking down the halls and his micro-managing of everything in general. Being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. You would have thought they learned their lesson, but not even a year or so later they fell for the same act by the guy who invented it in Bill Parcells. Parcells is so fickle he looks at the saying "here today, gone tomorrow" and said F' that...."HERE TODAY, GONE TODAY". Parcells screwed up 3 drafts, hired all of his buddies and put them in spots they were unqualified for or just too damn old for (i.e. Henning)......then felt the need to clear out his office and leave the franchise in the middle of the season just because when it comes to Parcells, its always about him!! Can't be about the team, its gotta be about "THE TUNA". The most overrated coach in NFL history and a total flop as a GM now failing with the Jets, Dallas, and Miami!
Say what you want about Belichick, but he is loyal to his owner and loyal to his coaches. He may be a dick to the media, and a dick to other coaches. But he treats "his people" good, until they give him a reason not too. Miami hires BAD PEOPLE....JJ, Saban, Parcells. You hire BAD people you get BAD results. You hire GOOD people you get GOOD results!
The teams that win have good people as owners and people as the face of their franchises on the office levels. Pittsburgh and the Rooneys. Giants and the Maras. The beloved Packers and McCarthy. Indy and Dungy back in the day.
And then you got the Wayne Huizengas of the world who push out Shula, beg Saban to come and fall for the Parcells act. And the current piece of shit owner like Ross who sabotages his own current head coach in Sparano and makes the whole organization look foolish. And we have a GM asking players if there mom was a hooker. And the dickish moves continue and continue and the Fins get worse and worse.
I know I know, MIKEO being negative again. But HOODIE made a great point. And Hoodie and myself don't see eye to eye on much if anything. But the seeds for the Dolphins failure were planted many years ago. The Fins have laid down with dogs, and to no surprise they got fleas!