Chris Grier should NOT be allowed to handle a Dolphins fire sale before NFL trade deadline

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Omar Kelly argues the Dolphins should trade the talent on its roster if they lose to the Chargers and begin accumulating picks. But Solana believes allowing Chris Grier to handle the fire sale is insanity.

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00:00So I was telling you, uh, I had this column from Omar Kelly, just a couple of things.

00:07This is the, the headline is lose to chargers.

00:10Dolphins should trade players for picks.

00:12Okay.

00:13This is part of what Omar wrote.

00:15It's a very long column.

00:16You can read it in the Miami Herald.

00:17This is just a little, a little snippet.

00:19We're approaching the point of no return.

00:22The Miami Dolphins can either push all their chips in the center of the table this month,

00:26or we begin the process of tearing this poorly built roster down and sell it off piece by

00:32piece, either beat the injury depleted chargers who are starting backups at both tackle spots

00:39and a third string tailback after making a cross continent trip to play the Dolphins at

00:45hard rock stadium Sunday, or begin the NFL auction of talent, keep losing and everything of value

00:53must go by the November 4th trade deadline.

00:57And then he writes teams in need of pass rushing help can pick up Jalen Phillips, who's playing

01:03in his fifth year option set to become a free agent next off season, Bradley Chubb, who has

01:0814 tackles and four sacks in what will likely be his final season in Miami since he's due

01:14$19.2 million in 2026 and 2024 first round pick chop Robinson, whom we've discovered is a

01:22limited pass rush only player need a thousand yard receiver. Jalen Waddle could probably be had for

01:30a second round pick since his $19.2 million a year price tag drives his value down. Devon

01:36HN, who has accounted for 435 all purpose yards and scored four touchdowns is going to be pushing for

01:43a lucrative contract extension at season's end. Maybe the Dolphins get something for HN now while his

01:50value will never be higher. Let's be honest, Omar writes and acknowledge that Minka Fitzpatrick

01:56has been acting like a hostage. The former Pro Bowl safety ran from his franchise's troublesome

02:02culture in 2019, only to return five seasons later. And wouldn't you know, very little has changed.

02:09And Omar goes on and writes a long calm and then he ends it with so lose on Sunday and it's time

02:15for him to get to work breaking apart this team to talk about Chris Greer or draft picks or blocks who

02:24have more upside than what this roster presently possesses. I'm with you. I didn't like Bradley

02:32Chubb when they brought him in. He was old and they gave him another 200 million. I wasn't a fan of

02:36that. I'm okay with all of them. Waddle kind of made me look back and forth a little bit.

02:42You do not get rid of Devon HN. He like Devon has a bit like Marshall Falk ability. You just can't.

02:49I know it's a reset. He creates offense. He creates offense. He's he is. He's his own offense in

02:55itself. Like you, we want to start a new offense. The new guy that comes in, whoever he is, coach X,

03:03every single offensive coordinator, offensive mind in the world could use a Devon HN. He's the kind

03:10of guy you base your offense around. The only, I'd only guy would take off the books for trade is

03:14Devon HN. Waddle can go. Waddle can go. Man, Crowder, I disagree with you. I think everybody

03:24could go genuinely other than the guys who just drafted, who it doesn't make much sense to move

03:30on from them because they're so cheap. Devon HN is going to get paid. And if you're really in a

03:38situation, I love Devon HN. I agree with you. I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you're really in a

03:43situation where you're going into a full rebuild again, or a full reset again, whatever you want

03:49to call it, you're going to pay a running back ridiculous amount of money when you have so many

03:56other holes. I mean, we're talking about Crowder. Think about the amount of holes you have to fill

04:00offensive line, defensive line, your entire secondary, likely your linebackers. I mean,

04:08you're getting rid of the entire defense in this scenario. You're going to pay a running back,

04:13but guys, this is why I think the biggest mistake Steven Ross has made was keeping Chris Greer one more

04:21season. This move should have been, and I know, I know we hate doing this. It's easy to have this

04:27take now, but man, I called it last year because now the person who's in charge of moving these

04:36assets or moving these guys for incoming assets, isn't the person who you expect to be using said

04:44draft capital and flexibility with cap space next off season. That's a bad place to be the guy who

04:54decimated your roster and put you in this position is who you trust to offload these guys. If he didn't

05:01know what they were truly valued at when he drafted, traded, or paid them, how can you trust him to know

05:07what their real value is on the trade market? Now it's a bad situation to be in.

05:12I, I totally agree. And that's what I was saying. Get rid of Chris Greer.

05:16If you fire him today, who was making the decisions then?

05:20I don't know, but I'd rather, I'd, I'd rather Steven Ross find somebody else because clearly

05:24Chris Greer wasn't the right guy. And I know Chris Perkins told us yesterday, Hey, it's very rare

05:30that a general manager goes in the middle of the season. And I understand that I'm not trying to

05:34get drastic here, but I do kind of think, bro, year seven of Greer and you're in this situation.

05:43Like what, why would you allow him to make these decisions? I don't get it.

05:46I would, I would say this. I understand exactly what you're saying. And you're right. If you're

05:51going to sell off the pieces, then why would you have the guy who brought in those pieces and,

05:59and hasn't been able to make it work and won't be here really for the new pieces? Why would you let

06:05him be in charge? Maybe you bring in an outside consultant, Bill Belichick. Maybe you bring in

06:12an outside consultant and you say, if you're Steven Ross, you say to Chris Greer, you do not make a

06:17single personnel move without it first being approved by so-and-so. Or maybe you do bring in

06:26an interim general manager who has no desire to be a long-term general manager because you want to do

06:32a hiring process. But I'm, I'm with Solana on that. You can't allow, if you, I mean, listen,

06:39if they're going to sell off the team piece by piece, you know, Chris Greer is not going to be

06:43here for the rebuild. He's had his attempts to do so. You can't let him be in charge of what you're

06:50getting or some valuable pieces. Devon HM is a valuable piece. So I don't know what the answer

06:58is. The answer is if you're going to follow Omar's take there, which is, Hey, if you can't win Sunday,

07:06everyone must go. I don't know who does it, but I'm kind of with Solana. I don't think it can be

07:13Chris Greer. And I'm with you on that too. You're going to fix your mistakes. You're going to find

07:20a way to figure out how to move the pieces that you brought in that aren't as valuable. And one

07:24thing, Solana, I got a point, but what is Kenneth Grant going to get right now? Even if his salary

07:30was low, I just look, I could, I could be wrong. I could be wrong as hell. I'm not the guy that's

07:35going to punt on a guy five games into a season. I'm just not, I'm not telling you Kenneth Grant was a

07:39great pick. Clearly so far he hasn't been, but the guy's making, he's on a rookie deal for the

07:44next couple of years. Same as Jonah Savat-Yunaya, at least, you know, run the gamut with them,

07:49give them another season because you're going to, next year's another, another, you know,

07:54find out who we have season anyways. And, and two, I think, I think the narrative,

07:59because you said, you know, how do you, how do you pay Devon HM, you know, that much money

08:03and rebuild the top? This is what ESPN's top, the power rankings for the week.

08:09Detroit Lions, number one, Montgomery and Gibbs, Buffalo, number two, James Cook,

08:16Philadelphia, number three, Saquon Barkley, Tampa Bay, number four, Bucky Irving and Rashad White,

08:23Indianapolis Colts, number five, Jonathan Taylor. This is like, you got to be able to run that ball.

08:28Number six is Green Bay with Jacob, Jonathan Jacobs. You have to have a good running back. Like

08:34every team that has a good offense and has a chance has a back. And I really believe Devon HM can

08:39be a back on a, I think Devon HM can go to any of those six teams and them offers don't miss a beat.

08:45But if you keep them around and give them a big contract, like Omar is suggesting he's going to

08:52want, and then you're going to ride out the season with Quinn Ewers, or you're going to trade for Joe

08:58Flacco, or you're going to elevate Zach Wilson. Like, what are you doing?

09:05Go get them, Devon.

09:06You know, you know what I was thinking? Um, next season, I think two is the quarterback because I

09:15just think you kind of have to have them here, but I wouldn't be opposed next season. The Dolphins

09:21go out. If they don't draft a quarterback or if they do draft a quarterback, doesn't matter.

09:26Go out and get yourself an Anthony Richardson, get yourself a young guy who hasn't worked elsewhere

09:33and, and bring them in, have a legitimate QB competition. Maybe not him. I'm just saying a

09:41guy like that have a legitimate QB competition. And because look at the giants, the giants drafted

09:46their quarterback early on. They had their veteran and then they went and they got another backup

09:51quarterback. Somebody who's had success in the past, but isn't necessarily still in the prime of

09:56their career. They had a QB competition. Russ won it. And then the second Russ was ass. They're like,

10:02we're going to the rookie. And here we are. They're beating the defending champs on Thursday night

10:08football. And Jackson dart looks unbelievable. Right. But a two, it looked unbelievable as well.

10:14When he actually got a chance to lead the team. I'm not talking about the couple of Brian Flores

10:19seasons. I'm talking about when McDaniel got here. I mean, I'd be, I'd, I'd slow our role on Jackson

10:24dart a little bit because he's looked good for two out of three games. Oh yeah. Listen,

10:32that are smartest defensive minds in the world are watching every snap he's taken over the last two

10:36weeks. If he continues to play like this, Solana, he's going to the pro bowl this year. Rookie pro

10:42bowl. I don't think that's going to happen. You would agree. He has all the tools though,

10:45to be successful. Oh yes. Yeah. Yeah. Arm, big arm, can run, can run, can take hits. A baby has

10:53swagger, like a baby Josh Allen. He really looks like a smaller frame Josh Allen. That's what he

10:58looks like. Giants are in a better position than the dolphins. I didn't think I'd be saying that

11:04at the start of the season, but they look to be in a much better. Yeah, they are. They're in a

11:10better position than the dolphins. They've got Jackson dart and they've got a cam Scadaboo and they've got

11:15Malik neighbors when he's healthy. Yeah. Day ball had to get him a quarterback. I don't know why

11:22day ball was on the bigger hot seat than McDaniel coming into the season. And I think he found

11:28himself a cooler seat because of Jackson dart. Goodness gracious. So now the giants have surpassed

11:37us. It's what I just succumbed from that. We've got the jets though, but we've got the jets.

11:42Okay.

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