In case anyone hasn’t figured it out yet, here’s how the new chain of command is working in Miami: Bill Parcells is hired by owner Wayne Huizinga and immediately is given control of everything from the football operations, to the guys sweeping trash in the parking lot. Then Parcells immediately fires GM Randy Mueller and replaces him with Jeff Ireland – a man whom Parcells can control. Ireland then cuts the Dolphins’ coaching staff down to, oh, two.
It’s one and done for first-year Dolphins coach Cam Cameron after newly hired General Manager Jeff Ireland fired him and most of his staff Thursday morning.
When asked about his decision to fire Cameron during today’s news conference, Ireland said, “It was a pretty simple process. Bill [Parcells] and I talked at length [Wednesday] about where we were going, what direction we were going. We just felt like in order to move forward and not look back that we needed someone in place that shared the same philosophical compatibilities that we shared.”
It was a pretty simple process? Is Ireland not a “Parcells guy” or what? Translation of Ireland’s comments about firing Cameron: “Look, this wasn’t really a complicated deal. The guy went 1-15 this year, so we fired him along with every S.O.B. in the building who had any sort of connection to him. Next question.”
