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Westhoff: Dolphins Fired Philbin Because He Declined to Make ‘Assistant Changes’

Could Joe Philbin still be the Miami Dolphins head coach if he had agreed to make changes to his staff?

“I heard from pretty good source that over in London that [Joe] Philbin met with the owner and decided that they would ride it out,” Mike Westhoff said on WQAM’s Joe Rose Show. “But then Mike Tannenbaum got involved. They wanted to make some assistant changes, which I can understand that. Of course Mike is gonna make changes. Believe me, I know him very well. And then when they got back, they presented that to Philbin and he said no, so they changed him.