Should Adam Gase handled the Reshad Jones issue differently?
By Brian Miller
The Miami Dolphins play the Green Bay Packers on Sunday and they need their best players available. Adam Gase said Reshad Jones will play.
This past Sunday the Miami Dolphins did not have Reshad Jones on the field after quarter number one. Not because of injury or disciplinary reasons from Adam Gase but because Jones decided he wasn’t going to play anymore that day.
Obviously Monday was a beat down for head coach Adam Gase with the media. Questions kept coming and when the topic moved on to someone else it inevitably returned to Reshad Jones and Gase was forced to deal with a situation publicly that he wanted to deal with internally.
Unfortunately with today’s media and social media avenues, nothing is internal no matter how you want to keep it quiet. Over on the Sun-Sentinel, journalist Dave Hyde has some questions about Gase’s decision regarding Jones and he points out that no matter who is the reason behind him leaving the field the fact is he quit on his team.
The question now is did Adam Gase do the right thing but supporting Jones unlike he did with Jordan Phillips?
There is an obvious but unstated issue with defensive coordinator Matt Burke who Gase said he did not talk to after Sunday’s game. In fact the two hadn’t sat down and talked prior to the media press conference on Monday, according to Gase. Yet Gase stood at the podium and said that he and Jones had spoken and that everything was o.k.
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Gase did not say that there would not be discipline. He did say that Jones would play on Sunday. So where does that line get crossed and is that o.k.? Jones has to make amends with his teammates first and foremost after his head coach. He is a leader on the field and in the locker room and it set a bad look for him personally.
Clearly the decision to publicly say that Jones and Gase are fine indicates that things may not be the same between Jones and Burke and maybe not Burke and Gase but that is nothing more than speculation at this point. The bye week follows the Green Bay Packers game this Sunday so if a change were to be made, it would be made then.
It is difficult to answer the question as to whether Gase was right, wrong, or indifferent to his handling of the issue with Jones so we pose the question to you and want you to let us know. Should Gase have handled the issue differently? Let us know in the comments.