Accountability. It’s a funny thing; you are accountable for your actions in all walks of life—in your personal life, your profession, or any time you get behind the wheel of a vehicle. The only place there seems to be no accountability is the Miami Dolphins front office, specifically for their general manager.
No matter what happens or how bad it gets, nothing ever changes. As the Dolphins sit 1-3 on the 2024 season, with their best player on defense out for the remainder of the season and their starting quarterback in concussion protocol, it was a rough September for the Fins organization. While some of it is “bad luck,” many of the Dolphins’ problems we see each week play out before our eyes were avoidable and were caused by poor roster construction and front-office decisions.
Ruth Bader Grier ( as I will refer to him now since he seems to have the job security of a Supreme Court Judge) took a Miami Dolphins roster filled with young players who were ascending in their NFL careers and turned it into the oldest roster in the NFL in 2024. Mind you Grier had a hand in assembling that roster of young and ascending players, but what good is it if you let them all walk out your front door and retain few if any of them? Most rational, logical, level-headed NFL fans would ask one question: How and why did we get to where we are today? How and why did this happen? What was the logic behind some of these decisions that Chris Grier made in the offseason? With the Dolphins at .