The Miami Dolphins have lost all five of their 2011 regular-season games. With a revolving door at the quarterback position since Dan Marino retired a dozen years ago, plenty of fans are hoping that the marine mammals sink to the bottom of the NFL’s ocean, in the hopes of landing a guy who would help propel them to greater heights in 2012 and beyond.
Dolphins linebacker Karlos Dansby doesn’t want to hear such talk.
“It pisses me off,” Dansby said Wednesday, per Mike Berardino of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “I don’t understand nothing about that. I put too many hours into this, man, put too many years into this, sacrificed too much to ask somebody to put that stipulation on me and my teammates. Because I know how much we put into this.”
Needless to say, Dansby wouldn’t be willing to sit out late-season games in order to enhance the chances of getting Andrew Luck. “Hell, no,” Dansby said. “Ain’t no way. There’s no way. Never. Ever. Ever. No, no, no, no. I’m not sitting out. For what? No, it’s not going to happen. Not going to happen.”
But, as we’ve pointed out recently, the Dolphins don’t need to persuade players to take a seat or to not try to win. They just need to keep doing what they’re doing -- and they need to resist any urge to fire Tony Sparano.
That’s one of the topics I discussed during a midweek cameo appearance on NBC SportsTalk.