"Seven seasons ago, team owner Steve Ross and president Tom Garfinkel sold everyone on tanking a season to get the top draft pick. That failed in part because the coach they hired, Brian Flores, didn't embrace tanking. Flores won too many games. The other part of that tanking failure is Ross promoted general manager Chris Grier to run the show and pick the quarterback."
"So, naturally, of the five quarterbacks drafted in the first 45 picks of the 2020 draft - Joe Burrow, Tua, Justin Herbert, Jordan Love and Jalen Hurts - Grier picked the one who hasn't been successful as an NFL starter. It's so the Dolphins. That's really the issue. It's not about Tua. It's about what the Dolphins did to themselves. Ross needs to talk about this in cathartic detail."
The Dolphins benched Tua Tagovailoa and used remaining games to evaluate rookie Quinn Ewers, but the move exposes deeper organizational dysfunction. Leadership promised a tank to secure a top pick, yet coaching and personnel decisions undermined that plan and the subsequent quarterback selection. General manager Chris Grier bypassed top prospects and chose Tua among five 2020 first-45 picks, a choice that has not yielded a successful starter. Brian Flores warned Tua was not a franchise quarterback and was dismissed. Team ownership needs to conduct a candid, detailed review to identify failures and prevent repetition.
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