The Miami Dolphins are really an interesting team to cover. It’s not so much that they win so much (as they did when I covered them under Don Shula), or that they lose so much (as they have been lately), it’s just that they find new and innovative ways of being weird.

The team that brought you the perfect season plus brought you the buying out of the coach who engineered the perfect season.

The team hired Jimmy Johnson and before his four seasons were by, he quit twice, cried after loses, and feuded with future corridor of Famer Dan Marino.

Then after Johnson folded in his mission to achieve what he promised — to win a Super Bowl — somebody had the brilliant view to let him name his successor! Remember that Don Shula didn’t get that privilege. And, by the way, that successor was an oaf.

Then that oaf lost the respect of the players after three years and his coaching staff went into mutiny his final year with the team. next Ricky Williams “retired.” next Ricky Williams was suspended.

Then the team replaced the oaf with Nick Saban, who had a Napoleonic Complex and was something of a social misfit with anyone not wearing a football uniform. thereupon Saban trusted the doctors by the coaches and scouts and picked Daunte Culpepper by Drew Brees. And yes, he lied about Alabama, too.

Then Ricky was suspended again.

Then the Cam Cameron experience with his million mistake march toward 1-15. And now?

Well, today the team has not one, but two owners. It has a rookie coach. It has a rookie general manager. And the guy running the entire operation is a ghost.

Everyone knows Bill Parcells is

calling the shots with the Dolphins, but he and the team feel compelled to put on that facade like he’s not really calling the shots. The entire freakin’ NFL knows Bill Parcells is in charge, but Parcells thinks by not being out in public on Dolphins trade, he can idiot everyone into forgetting the truth.

So in a year the team has the No. 1 pick in the universe, Parcells has not attended the Senior Bowl, the Indianapolis Combine, any of the pro day workouts for the top players and definitely not the current NFL annual assembly where, you know, his charisma might move some unsuspecting GM like Rick Spielman to trade the farm for the first pick Miami desperately wants to jettison.

Meanwhile, we have NO EARTHLY notion how distant Huizenga will remain as the Dolphins owner considering even Monday when the sale to Stephen Ross was finalized, the two men would not reveal the external moment by which the transfer of ability has to happen — something that was negotiated among the reams of legalese that is their agreement.

Because we don’t know how faraway Huizenga will remain, we have no certainty how enlarged Parcells will remain. certain, the Tuna told me he knew of the ownership shift and had no problems with it. But that is easy to say two or three years out. What whether Huizenga, 70, decides to get out after next season?

Where will that leave Parcells and Ross?

It all speaks of a strange team that continues to be, well, strange. And notice I didn’t even mention that the team’s best player is dancing with the stars while his teammates are in their offseason conditioning program.

Amaaaazing.

Original post by Armando Salguero