Ireland has done a decent job. There is talent on this team and Philbin/Ireland are capable of gathering the right players to make a difference. The atmosphere on this team stunk and is starting to change. The mindset needed to change for the better. It has. That is why talented players like Marshall and Davis were traded. Talent is pointless if it isn’t reliable. The main thing I disagree with Philbin on is his stance on team captains. I believe that they are needed to help jell the team. Informal leaders are necessary and giving them (the right ones) formal titles and status can help the coaches get the buy-in necessary. Let’s wait to judge Ireland/Philbin until after next year.

Loosers find a way to loose!

We need a WR. We had one in Marshall, but created a need by trading him away. For two 3rd round picks. Ireland will be celebrated for this even though we won’t get anything close to Marshall-level production from those picks. How good is Ireland in the 2nd & 3rd rounds?Egnew, our 3rd rounder from this year, didn’t even DRESS until week 17. Yes, I’m sure Ireland can replace Brandon Marshall with who HE finds in the 3rd round.

We traded away Vontae Davis, who admittedly isn’t a star – but for a team with a depleted secondary- he was a quality piece. We used a first round pick on him, got a second in return (turns out to be a low 2nd too), and Ireland is congratulated for getting us draft picks for 2013. Meanwhile, at the end of the year we were picking guys up off the waiver wire just to have warm bodies for the secondary.

He gets entirely too much credit from some fans. What he’s celebrated for here is being in a position he created for himself in the first place, and he weakened the team in the process.

Let’s wait to see what he does with those picks & cap money before we sing his praises.

Give the kid Wilson’s O-Line and Lynch, Reggie Wayne and T.Y. Hilton or Alfred Morris and the Redskins WRs and he puts up much, much better numbers.

7 WINS with Marlon Moore as a main offensive weapon is outstanding.

He moved players out that Philbin didn’t want and didn’t overreact in signing our own pending free agents.

We have 10 picks and $45 mil in cap space.

He didn’t make any panic moves that a GM could make to keep the heat off of himself and instead positioned the team for a good makeover in 2013.

Mr. Ross included Ireland as a major cog of last year’s coaching search, and allowed him to stick around to draft the team’s QB of the present/future.

I understand that many Dolfans have no faith in Ireland, but the first thing any new GM will want to do is pick his own coach and his own quarterback. Unless you would like to see Miami throw away Philbin and Tannehill, you have to hold on to Ireland- who is the one responsible for accumulating the extra draft picks and cap space the Dolphins will enjoy this offseason.

Firing Ireland along with Sparano could have made sense, but seeing as we’ve gone this far already, it only makes sense to let him finish the project he set in motion.

Good thing Miami didn’t trade him to playoff team to rub it in even worse

GO DOLPHINS.

But to me the biggest hole in this team is a CB. Smith won’t tackle. Carroll is beaten like a drum consistently. We actually need two CBs.

And though we will likely overpay, resign Long, move Martin back to RT. Get a RG.