Then, to my amazement, MIAMI hired him.
Then, I watched him do nothing to build on the team he inherited from Shula.
1) Why did MIAMI hire him in the first place?
2) What took them so long?
I second that emotion. From all of us in Chicago who were waiting / hoping / knowing that he would eventually turn the Dolphins into a bunch of losers like he did to us in Chicago, a collective SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAA !!!!!
Wannstedt was Jimmy Johnson's defensive coordinator in Dallas when they won a couple of superbowls. Both Wannstedt and Norv Turner (off coord) got head coaching jobs on the basis of their pedigree with Jimmy. Jimmy was head coach of the Dolphins, succeeding Shula. When Wannstedt was finally sacked by the Bears, out of loyalty, Johnson appointed him to the position of "assistant head coach" with the plan that Wannstedt would succeed him when Johnson retired. Wayne Huizinga, being a hands-off, delegating kind of owner, let Johnson do whatever he wanted, with the end result as we now have it.
As a native of Chicago, a life-long Bears fan, and frequent viewer of my videotape of SuperBowl XX, including the SuperBowl Shuffle video, I could see this coming right from the very start. This whole unfortunate episode is a manifestation of nepotism in the coaching ranks. Right now The Oakland Raiders are likewise getting what they asked for with retread Norv Turner.