Dennis Hickey Hired as Miami Dolphins General Manager

Dennis Hickey has been hired as the new General Manager of the Miami Dolphins replacing Jeff Ireland after three seasons as Tampa Bay's director of player personnel. Ireland spent six year with the Dolphins as their General Manager. The Miami Herald broke the news early Sunday. This is the fifth year in a row that Miami failed to make the playoffs having lost its last two games approaching an 8-8 finish with Coach Joe Philbin who has been with the team for the last two years. The bullying involving offensive linemen Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito didn't help to draw any positive attention to the team which also brought a dark cloud over their season. Hickey was also with the Buccaneers for 18 partial seasons and spent six years as their director of college scouting.