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Ross is far from Huizenga and that's not saying much either, but at least he's trying to build a winner & is opening his wallet to do so. Wayne never really did that. Look what he did with the Marlins after their World Series win? Fire sale. Ross is in over his head, but he has people around him that can give him sound advice. Hell he has Tony Dungy & Don Shula as part of one of his councils. He obviously doesn't know the football part of the business, only the business end. He needs to employ sound football minds that can make sure things are ran how they need to be. The sad thing is we may lose out on a lot of potential coaching candidates again if Ross doesn't clean house completely, rather than partially.
The O-Line is terrible, and that needs to be addressed big time. Glad we didn't re-sign Long because look what happened to him in STL. Another season ended on the IR. Ellerbe played better than Wheeler, but look at what Dansby did after being released... Was either one of them really an upgrade over him? No. That needs to be addressed as well. I'm hoping Grimes gets re-signed because dude is a stud. We haven't had a good DB like that since Pat Surtain & Sam Madison!
My thing is why extend Ireland? What warranted that reward? Makes 0 sense. Loyal to Philbin for what? What has he done besides read index cards post game? Ross is not making sound decisions, and if Dungy and Shula are advising these choices, they're over the hill too. This isn't even bringing up foolishness like pursuing Harbaugh while Sparano is under contract, and then extending him when he failed.