Miami Dolphins Chris Grier far more to blame than McDaniel

Back to Miami Dolphins Chris Grier and a wrap to who really should be held accountable.

McDaniel, as we said, was given Tua Tagovailoa who he looked great most of the year and he was forced to keep Josh Boyer. Chris Grier gave him Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb, Terron Armstead, and Connor Williams. But McDaniel was also given the following to work with as well.

Liam Eichenberg, Austin Jackson, Noah Igbinoghene, and a slew of backup offensive lineman. The Dolphins, perhaps McDaniel or Grier, moved Williams to center instead of signing one. Grier spent a lot of Armstead who is fantastic when healthy but can’t stay healthy.

Grier failed to address the secondary when it was clear that Byron Jones would not be back and if there was internal issues that kept him off the field, that too falls on Grier. The drafting of Jackson and Igbinghene put the Dolphins in a position that McDaniel couldn’t move on and instead had to try and coach up players that really are not that good.

I would love to know how much input McDaniel had on giving Mike Gesicki the franchise tag because it wasn’t well spent and Gesicki wasn’t well used by McDaniel. If that was another one of Grier’s decisions, he should be held in check.

Overall, McDaniel is young and is going to have growing pains but he hasn’t been given the greatest team to work with and expecting a big push for the playoffs or a Super Bowl appearance is a lot to ask from a team that is as banged up as the Dolphins are. These were Grier decisions. He has a tendency to try and sign player with injury histories and then make them work. That doesn’t always work and for the Dolphins, in most cases it didn’t. For McDaniel, it puts him in a position that he may not deserve to be in.

Stephen Ross is an owner that you simply don’t know what he will do next so the thought of McDaniel being on the hot-seat is realistic despite the fact that much of this season can be attributed to Chris Grier in many ways.

If I’m Stephen Ross, Grier is who I replace and I look for an outside the organization general manager because if he fires Grier and hires from within, he is recycling the same problems.