The Miami Dolphins have had a difficult time finding consistent success over the last 15 years. The franchise has reached the playoff just one time since 2001, hasn’t won a playoff game since 2000 and hasn’t won more than eight games since 2008.
During this stretch of misery, the organization has also burned through a heap of head coaches, having employed eight head coaches (including interim) since 2004, Dave Wannstedt’s final season. And that number will reach nine in 2016 after it was announced that interim head coach Dan Campbell, who took over for the fired Joe Philbin at midseason, would not return.
It’s far too early to include the Dolphins in the same depressing conversation as the Cleveland Browns but they have been one of the laughingstocks of the league for a very long time and owner Stephen Ross made a comment on Monday that had most folks laughing hysterically.
He not only called them “THE first-class organization in the National Football League” but also amusingly admitted they suck on the field:
