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Dave Hyde: A coach? A GM? Here’s the never-ending problem inside the dysfunctional Dolphins

Dave Hyde: A coach? A GM? Here’s the never-ending problem inside the dysfunctional Dolphins

Forget finding a coach. Find the Miami Dolphins’ real problem through the lost years.

When Steve Ross bought the team in 2009, incoming team president Mike Dee, a marketing guy, told football people previously reporting to vice president of football Bill Parcells to report to him. That caused “communication and collaboration” problems to cite a recent phrase. Parcells left the team.

When Ross and general manager Jeff Ireland secretly interviewed Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, that ended the communication and collaboration between Ireland and coach Tony Sparano. Even their wives quit talking. Sparano was later fired.

Ireland soon had communication and collaboration problems with new coach Joe Philbin. As did Philbin and new football overseer Dawn Aponte with general manager Dennis Hickey. As did Philbin with his full team leading to Bullygate.

Everyone was still communicating and collaborating so poorly by 2016 Chris Grier said upon being promoted to general manager to start another new era, “The talk of dysfunction within the organization is over.”

It wasn’t over. They didn’t address the real problem. It continued through the era of coach Adam Gase and vice president of football Mike Tannenbaum as a land grab continued over who had power inside the team. Each was fired after three years.

Then in 2019 Grier hired Brian Flores as coach. He must not have communicated and collaborated with him properly, though. Grier accepted the plan of Ross and team president Tom Garfinkel to tank a season (or two) — even if they didn’t call it that — by trading good players for draft picks.

Flores wasn’t on board with that plan from Day One. He coached to win. No one stopped him inside the organization. So the Dolphins sacrificed a season (now three), but Flores won two meaningless games at the end of 2019 and lost the Holy Grail of the No. 1 draft pick.

This past week Flores was fired for “communication and collaboration” issues, as Ross said. As if that’s a new issue inside this team’s operations.

Here’s the problem the Dolphins always have: What’s the problem? Seriously, they don’t see it. They just keep throwing a fresh coat of paint on a poorly constructed house and saying it’s beautiful.

Everyone’s attention is on who the Dolphins should hire as a coach. But the Dolphins problem right now isn’t who.

It’s how.

How are they going to structure this organization? How are they going to decide who’s in charge? Is it Dee or Parcells? Aponte and Philbin or the general manager? Gase or Tannenbaum? Grier or Flores?

Grier or the new coach?

It’s never been abundantly clear who’s in charge of the football side for the 13 failed Ross years. That’s Step A here. Get a sharp football mind and strong personality and put them in charge to make hires that end these constant communication and collaboration issues.

That will end the internal dysfunction. That’s a first step in the right direction. It gives everything else a chance to work. It won’t guarantee success, of course.

Former Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga made great hires in this plan that didn’t work as hoped. Jimmy Johnson. Nick Saban. Bill Parcells. Only Johnson left the team progressively better than he found it.

But you saw why each of them was hired. You still do, right? Has Ross made one hire in 13 years and said, “OK, this should work?” You crossed fingers in many cases. But crossing fingers isn’t anyone’s idea of a good plan, is it?

You know what’s happening right now: The same posse of Ross, Grier, Garfinkel and consultant Dan Marino are interviewing coaching candidates. They’ll sort through their various plans and proposed staffs and decide who’s the best fit here.

The profile will be a nice-guy offensive coach considering Flores was a disciplinarian defensive coach. Ross prefers rising, first-time coaches to mirror his business hires. Maybe after being burned by first-time coaches for 13 years he turns to a veteran this time.

But the coach doesn’t solve the Dolphins problem. Who’s in charge of the football side? That’s the problem. It’s not Grier. He’s a nice guy. But Flores was the Alpha personality who dictated how everything worked. Even the trade talks for troubled Houston quarterback Deshaun Watson?

Grier talked after the trade deadline of pursuing Watson. Ross got permission to talk with Watson. All this suggested the franchise was all-in on making a player with 22 sexual-misconduct allegations the face of the franchise.

The Sun-Sentinel confirmed national reports Saturday the Dolphins are back to being all-in on Tagovailoa. What, because Flores left? Because Ross and Grier changed their minds? This yo-yoing of the quarterback situation shows the lack of leadership through the organizaiton.

Like Gase, Flores scooped up more power from the front office as his three years went on. Ross and Grier let them, too. And you wonder how things get dysfunctional?

Ross wants to win. He doesn’t know how. He hasn’t from the start when he allowed a marketing guy like Dee trump a football guy like Parcells.

“Communication and collaboration,” isn’t some new problem that led to Flores’ firing. It’s an organizational issue. Who’s really in charge? If Ross doesn’t fix that, he’ll be right back here in another few years.

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