"I've stood on the elevator as it's taken everyone down, and down lower, through team owner Steve Ross' tenure with (long breath) Joe Philbin, Bullygate, White-Powder-Snorting Videogate, Tank-for-Tua, Tampering-for-Tom Brady, Brian Flores' lawsuit, Star-Players-Late-for-Practice-Gate and, always, No-Playoff-Win-in-25-Years-Gate. The primary stars of this game are the builders. They're the two behind-the-curtain general managers who thrived in the unromantic existence of the clammy-palmed draft room or the dice-rolling proposition of free agency to build cusp-of-championship rosters. Remember when the talk was wasting Dan Marino's career?"
"That's because the stars going into Super Sunday aren't the quarterbacks since neither Seattle's Sam Darnold nor New England's Drake Maye have the developed pedigree. Nor are the stars the coaches, though both the Seahawks' second-year coach Mike Macdonald and Mike Vrabel in his first with the Patriots have shown their swaggering talent. Still, the primary stars of this game are the general managers."
Miami Dolphins ownership endured a two-decade run of missteps, controversies and chronic playoff failure, including coaching mistakes, Bullygate, Videogate, the Tank-for-Tua period, tampering episodes, Brian Flores' lawsuit and repeated no-playoff-win seasons. Current competitive hope rests not on quarterbacks or coaches but on general managers skilled in roster construction. Seattle's John Schneider and New England's Eliot Wolf exemplify front-office builders who learned in Green Bay's organizational system. New Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan shares that Packers-mentored background. Emulating the Packers' disciplined, process-driven model offers a viable path for the Dolphins to develop sustained competitiveness under the present regime.
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