Tough and Dark days for Millenial Miami Dolphins Fans
The Perfect Season will never be forgotten.
?The Super Bowl, words that Miami Dolphins fans such as myself are very unfamiliar with. For those of you that are lucky enough to support a team that has won the Super Bowl or even won a playoff game in the last 15 years, I salute you. I really do feel for the millennial Dolphins fans such as myself that have nothing to look forward to in the near future or anything to look back on for that matter. The last time the Miami Dolphins won the Super Bowl was in 1973 against the Minnesota Vikings, which was 17 years before I was born. I have had the privilege to watch many great quarterbacks come through Miami since I have been alive. Quarterbacks like Jay Fiedler, Gus Frerotte, Chad Henne, and my personal favorite (just kidding) the Golden Boy of the Miami Dolphins, Ryan Tannehill.
Ryan Tannehill was drafted 8th overall by the Miami Dolphins in 2012 and was suppose to be our new Franchise quarterback and lead this team into a new era of Dolphins football. Four and a half years into Ryan Tannehill being our “Franchise” quarterback he has been anything but that. He is 30-37 as a starting quarterback and yet to have a season with a winning record. While RT17 is a problem in this organization, he is not the only problem that we have. Our defense is one of the worst in the league and we have a run game that is non-existent because our committee of running backs. The biggest problem starts all the way at the top with our owner Steven Ross and the front office he has assembled.
Don’t get me wrong, Steven Ross is a great builder and knows how to get a Super Bowl down in Miami but has proved to be juvenile when it comes to building a winning franchise. Mike Tannenbaum being the first mistake of Ross, more of a businessman then having any knowledge about drafting a football team and he is the guy that has been making those decisions. If the Miami Dolphins really want to change this thing around and start on the right path it starts with Tannenbaum giving his personnel power to new Coach Adam Gase and let the new instinctive man run with it. Second order of business is to draft another quarterback to replace Ryan Tannehill who we gave a massive contract to which is taking a cap hit of almost 2 million dollars more than Russell Wilson’s contract in the upcoming 2017 season. The lack of talent that Coach Gase has to work with on this current Dolphins roster will need to be fixed in the upcoming drafts. I do not expect this team to be fixed over night but a step in the right direction is something we have not taken in years. So here is to hoping that our beloved Miami Dolphins become the storied franchise that it use to be in the 1970’s. We need our new leaders such as Jarvis Landry, Rashad Jones, and our new coach Adam Gase to guide us into a bright future we all hope comes sooner than later.
