No, not the Jints; this time, the Phins!
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Huizenga told assembled media that he valued our input in terms of how to help the club, so I'd like to take him up on his offer and drop the following two-word note in the Suggestion Box:
Scott Pioli.
Hire this man, because he is more important than a head coach. Pay him what you must and give him more power than you'd like, because he is proven.
Huizenga said, "We're gonna go out there and kick some butt. I can guarantee that."
Well, luring Pioli away from your chief AFC East rival and roadblock would be a butt-kicking heard `round the NFL. I can guarantee THAT.
Pioli, 41, is the New England Patriots' VP in charge of player personnel, the expert drafter, free-agent getter and depth-builder who, behind the scenes, helps make Bill Belichick look so good. Pioli is NFL state-of-the-art in terms of creating a championship club.
"I don't care what it takes, what's involved, what it costs." When Huizenga said that, I immediately thought how Pioli might be lure-able by whatever team could offer him a challenge, a fat wallet and a promotion by giving him something closer to complete control than he now has under Belichick.
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Now you'll hear dozens of names of possible next coaches flying around - Jim Mora, Mike Martz, Mike Sherman, Ron Rivera, Norm Chow, Ken Whisenhut maybe everybody but Lou Saban, the Best Available Saban - but none of their hiring would make the statement that landing Pioli would.
Miami ought to make a priority of hiring this guy away from the Patriots and trusting him to lead the search for a new coach. Hire him if you can knowing the next draft wouldn't settle for a Jason Allen, and the next round of free agency wouldn't miss on an L.J. Shelton.
Getting Pioli would be a major coup and perhaps the only immediate development that might be even more important to the Dolphins than the full return to health of Daunte Culpepper.
It would put a franchise in desperate need of direction and guidance in the hands of the sport's most accomplished assembler of talent and team.
That's how you start putting this Saban mess and two-year waste cleanly behind you, Wayne, since you asked for my input and all.
Not by first hiring a new coach.
By first hiring the one man most likely to make the new coach look like a genius.
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Huizenga told assembled media that he valued our input in terms of how to help the club, so I'd like to take him up on his offer and drop the following two-word note in the Suggestion Box:
Scott Pioli.
Hire this man, because he is more important than a head coach. Pay him what you must and give him more power than you'd like, because he is proven.
Huizenga said, "We're gonna go out there and kick some butt. I can guarantee that."
Well, luring Pioli away from your chief AFC East rival and roadblock would be a butt-kicking heard `round the NFL. I can guarantee THAT.
Pioli, 41, is the New England Patriots' VP in charge of player personnel, the expert drafter, free-agent getter and depth-builder who, behind the scenes, helps make Bill Belichick look so good. Pioli is NFL state-of-the-art in terms of creating a championship club.
"I don't care what it takes, what's involved, what it costs." When Huizenga said that, I immediately thought how Pioli might be lure-able by whatever team could offer him a challenge, a fat wallet and a promotion by giving him something closer to complete control than he now has under Belichick.
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Now you'll hear dozens of names of possible next coaches flying around - Jim Mora, Mike Martz, Mike Sherman, Ron Rivera, Norm Chow, Ken Whisenhut maybe everybody but Lou Saban, the Best Available Saban - but none of their hiring would make the statement that landing Pioli would.
Miami ought to make a priority of hiring this guy away from the Patriots and trusting him to lead the search for a new coach. Hire him if you can knowing the next draft wouldn't settle for a Jason Allen, and the next round of free agency wouldn't miss on an L.J. Shelton.
Getting Pioli would be a major coup and perhaps the only immediate development that might be even more important to the Dolphins than the full return to health of Daunte Culpepper.
It would put a franchise in desperate need of direction and guidance in the hands of the sport's most accomplished assembler of talent and team.
That's how you start putting this Saban mess and two-year waste cleanly behind you, Wayne, since you asked for my input and all.
Not by first hiring a new coach.
By first hiring the one man most likely to make the new coach look like a genius.
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