Chris Perkins blames Miami Dolphins institutional failures on Grier and McDaniel

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Dolphins columnist for the Sun Sentinel recently wrote why he believes McDaniel MUST be fired at the end of the season. He joins the show to explain.

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00:00perk is with us now you wrote a column earlier this week perk that mcdaniel has to be gone

00:05after this season um there's nothing that can be done right in your opinion there's nothing

00:12that can be done that's left to be done where you would say you know what this coach and this

00:18regime deserves another shot at it well look if if they if they duplicate the 2016 team which was

00:27also one in four and made it to the playoffs and win a playoff game then i will say okay but from the

00:36start of this season even last season even in 2023 i was saying the measure of a successful season

00:44is winning a playoff game in 2022 they already showed us they could make the playoffs they showed

00:50us they could make the playoffs with two a missing games so now you have to go to the next step you

00:54have to show us that you can win a playoff game and now here we are uh almost three seasons later

01:01and two you know two plus seasons later and you're not on track to make the playoffs not only that

01:07your best game this season was probably that loss to buffalo right i mean you held on for that jets

01:12game and so i don't see progress i don't see the cavalry coming because tyreek is out for the season

01:18maybe james daniels and austin jackson come back but what is that going to do for you this season

01:25is pretty much a lost cause and the reason that i say that at that mike can't come back next season

01:31as opposed to he should lose his job today i think the players are still listening to mike okay and so

01:37i think the players like mike i think the players respect mike but one more loss two more losses they're

01:44going to stop listening to mike and at that point to me that's when you need to make the change

01:49did he have anything interesting to say at his press conference today was there anything that you

01:54came away with no not really i mean he was you know he was the the low-key mike that he's been this

02:01season you know the jokes aren't there uh because nothing's funny when you're winning four so he he was

02:07the normal low-key mike today that he's been all season and you know look i like mike uh this is not a

02:14personal thing this is business right that you know you were given the best talent this organization

02:20has had in two decades and you couldn't do anything with it it's time for a change but yeah mike was

02:26mike was the same mike today so perk why why mike mcdaniel or i guess let me ask it this way we were

02:36talking earlier about who should go first and i i believe it's inevitable both will go chris greer

02:42and mike mcdaniel does it matter who ends up getting fired first do you feel like one needs

02:49to go before the other do you feel like they all have to go together um does that process matter

02:55in your eyes it's rare that a gm gets fired mid-season i think the jets might have been the

03:01last team to do it a few years ago usually the coach goes mid-season and the gm goes you know after

03:08the season but i've said in the column twice that steve ross needs to take a broom to this organization

03:14meaning rear mcdaniel toa that you you shouldn't bring any of them back because they've they've all

03:21shown that they're not good enough to get you where you need to get and as far as tua look um you can

03:29take the russell wilson denver approach right where you just take the financial pain or you can take the

03:34atlanta kurt cousins approach where you have him on the roster but he's not the starter and maybe you

03:40wait for for a desperate team to come by and offer you a trade but um to me uh none of these guys have

03:48shown and they've had three plus seasons together that they can take you where you need to be you

03:55should have a playoff win by now i'm not saying that you should be at kansas city level but you should

04:00be at the buffalo baltimore level and it's important to point out that neither josh allen nor lamar

04:07jackson has been to a super bowl right so it's it's not like i'm saying they should be at some great

04:13level they should be as good as those teams and they're nowhere near those teams so i think to get

04:20a clean start you take all three of them out and because i don't i wouldn't want to bring in a new gm

04:27and say you have to have mike mcdaniel and to i wouldn't want to have to bring in a new coach

04:31and say you've got chris greer and to uh if they want to keep to a next season if they're the new gm

04:38and a new coach and if they want to keep to a that's fine but to me um you know given to us

04:44limitations as far as mobility and and performance and big games at big moments right we've seen the

04:51interceptions against new england and buffalo late game interceptions i say make a clean sweep

04:57take the financial pain and start all over again i know you said that the team still likes mike and

05:04he doesn't seem to have lost the locker room is there any splintering that you can notice one of

05:10the things crowder had told us this week was when you see a team up 17 the defense can't hold on to

05:19that lead that while everyone might be kumbaya in public you might start to get that splintering

05:27where the offense is saying hey defense can you stop someone the defense might be saying to the

05:32offense hey offense can you maybe you know rush for some yardage and stay on the field a little bit

05:38longer you sense any kind of splintering i don't i don't but i'll tell you this i did have a very

05:46interesting conversation with jack jones today and so i went up to him and you know i i like to do

05:51one-on-ones i don't like to do group interviews i like to talk to players one-on-one and establish a

05:56relationship so i went up to jack and i said jack uh just give me some football knowledge um what's

06:02your mindset in bouncing back in a game and in a season when you have the penalties that you had last

06:07game and i said i'm not going to write this we're just talking and he goes no no you need to write

06:13this all right jack and so he goes off on this long rant about how the game is built for the for the

06:20offense to succeed and and and the calls aren't equal and and when the when the defensive player

06:25is just trying to keep up he's going to get called and he said and jack jones is great jack jones is a

06:31very stand-up i remember what he said about i'm in ross st brown uh during the during the joint

06:36practice he cooked me you know so jack jones is and i knew jack was going to be very open and honest

06:41about it but um he went on a nice rant and and then david ferronis my co-worker at the sun sentinel

06:47walked up and jack kept going and we lingered too long you know strategically in a locker room you

06:54want to have the story to yourself and barry jackson noticed we were over there so barry jackson came

06:59over so it's going to be in the herald and the sentinel damn it but uh it won't be in the palm beach

07:04post uh but you know but but barry jackson's a lurker let's say let's let's all be honest barry jackson's a lurker

07:10always have to look over my shoulder for barry he moves like a cat uh but um yeah but jack but jack

07:17jack was very good he was very open about the situation and and you know and you can read about

07:23it in the sunset well tomorrow david ferronis will write it about which calls that jack jones thought

07:29were legit in the game and which he weren't which he didn't think so and he credited hunter renfro

07:34uh from carolina as being shrewd and and knowing how to work the system to get the call so jack was

07:41very realistic but jack also kind of went off kind of on the game and the way it's kind of rigged against

07:47defensive players there's there's part of you know this entire situation where the dolphins are in

07:52perk that you know i even me one of you know uh somebody who's who's had this very skeptical view

07:59of everything that's been happening i'd say it's also a little unlucky with the injuries as well

08:04and i think jack jones is one of those guys they brought in and they were hoping he would exceed

08:09the expectations set on him and there's a couple other examples on the defense specifically how would

08:15you grade how you know some of these guys who were signed whether off waivers whether off the practice

08:21squad how would you grade uh how the dolphins have managed all the big injuries to the defense through

08:27five weeks well you know i'll say this the roster construction and the planning was bad and i i give

08:37the this is institutional failure and that's what i said in in the column is that the institution has

08:43failed here because you didn't you didn't prepare for the for the cornerback situation properly right

08:50you knew that jaylen ramsey wanted out and so instead of drafting a cornerback in the third or fourth round

08:56you traded out of those rounds and traded up to get jonah and you left the cover bear at quarterback and

09:02and so you know when storm duck and cater get injured you got nothing left you you don't have a rookie you

09:08don't have any bets as far as the offensive line well you needed to build better debt um and and that's

09:15biting you in the butt right now you signed liam eikenberg re-signed liam eikenberg and he was

09:20injured and and mike mcdaniel tells us it's some kind of a chronic condition well what was your plan

09:25like you knew he wasn't going to take the field anytime soon what was the plan and so with a lot

09:31of these injuries it's the management i mean it's the planning here that that you you didn't have a

09:37backup plan and really i go to just this whole philosophical change of we're going to win with

09:44youth and draftees instead of winning with vets and free agents okay if you're going to win with

09:50youth and draftees why the heck are you trading out of the third and fourth round like and now

09:55you're going to rely on fifth sixth and seventh rounders you you basically made it a two-person

09:59draft jonah in the second round and kenneth grant in the first round like nobody's realistically

10:06thinking fifth sixth and seventh rounders are going to contribute as rookies so i you know your your

10:12your philosophical change doesn't doesn't really jive with what you did on draft day

10:17and i think it goes with the cornerback plan like what was your plan at cornerback with daylon

10:23ramsey gone what was your plan at tight end with with johnny smith gone i i just see a lot of these

10:29things as bad planning and it's what's been happening in this whole three plus year uh administration of

10:37greer and mcdaniel it's not been good enough i'll say this greer and mcdaniel did a great job of

10:43amassing talent but they just didn't deploy it correctly and they didn't build enough backups

10:49and now you're paying the price court so all that being said do you give them any kind of puncher's

10:55chance sunday about you know i guess coming back from a collapse against a team that shouldn't be able

11:04to come back against you with bryce young at quarterback of the 17 point deficit do you give

11:10them a chance sunday to come out and make some sort of emphatic statement like hey we took one

11:16on the chin but we're not going anywhere we're still here we're still playing we're going to play

11:21some good football i do yeah yeah yeah i definitely do now i picked the charges to win 28 to 20 but i

11:27don't expect this scene to fold i i've written this uh the last couple of years and i believe it right now

11:33i like the fighting spirit of this team this team doesn't give up they don't quit they might not be

11:39very good and they might make some boneheaded errors but they don't quit they don't point fingers

11:44um they haven't quit on mike mcdaniel i like the competitiveness the fighting spirit of this team

11:50they just aren't very good and the reason they aren't very good is because of chris reer and mike

11:57mcdaniel um i don't expect jack jones to go out there and play like a pro bowl player or daniel brunskill

12:03or keon smith or a lot of these other guys that have been thrust into these roles they're busting

12:09their butt they're doing the best they can they're just not very good and they're put in this position

12:15through bad organizational planning so they do have a chance on on uh sunday i i definitely think they

12:22have a chance and i i think under mcdaniel i i i figured out this number today i think they're 18 and

12:29seven or something like that under at home under mcdaniel so i definitely give them a chance but

12:34i don't know that they're going to be good enough to beat the chargers who are also having their own

12:40injury issue that offensive line and running back like the dolphins so who knows what will happen but

12:46i but i i don't think that they're just going to get their butt kicked perk that offensive line might

12:50be the only one worse than the dolphins and i don't care i you know i think the tua versus

12:57herbert conversation is officially dead like that that's never uh one that the dolphins are going

13:02to feel like they won but no matter what the situation is perk it's always going to feel good

13:07to beat justin herbert whether it's with tua whether it's with whoever uh so even if this loss is even if

13:14a win this sunday you know in the grand scheme of things is meaningless go beat justin herbert if you

13:19can every single time yeah yeah you don't want to keep uh you don't want to keep hearing about that

13:24do you chris greer or mike mcdaniel or anybody at this facility that you know you made the wrong

13:30choice you drafted the wrong guy yeah you want tua to stick it to justin herbert and and so that you

13:36can say see like we we didn't necessarily make the wrong choice by the way if i'm not mistaken

13:41tua is better in the playoffs than herbert right tua oh and one herbert oh and two so there's that

13:47that's right that's right that's an excellent stat to have in my arsenal there what i'm arguing

13:55that's a good one exactly read uh read chris perkins work in the sun sentinel make sure you

14:01have the sun sentinel app make sure you uh subscribe to the sun sentinel as well listen

14:05to park sunday game day uncensored right here on this very radio station with solana and tobin thank

14:11you perk all right solana we'll talk sunday yes sir thank you all right

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