Dolphins fire coach Cameron

Former Miami Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron pauses on the podium after a news conference in Davie, Florida, January 19, 2007. The Dolphins, who won only one of their 16 games this season, fired Cameron on Thursday. (REUTERS/Hans Deryk)

MIAMI (Reuters) - The Miami Dolphins, who won just one of 16 games this season, fired coach Cam Cameron on Thursday. The Dolphins appointed Jeff Ireland as general manager on Wednesday and his first move was to release Cameron who had been in charge for a single season.

The team has also released all but two of Cameron's coaching staff -- assistant special teams coach Steve Hoffman and linebackers coach George Edwards will stay.

The departure of Cameron is the second major move made by Miami since former Super Bowl winning coach Bill Parcells took on the role of head of football operations last week.

Parcells, who coached the New York Giants to two Super Bowl titles, fired general manager Randy Mueller and brought in Ireland from his last team, the Dallas Cowboys.

Ireland told a news conference that they had not agonized at length over the decision.

"It was a pretty simple process. Bill (Parcells) had a chance to visit with Cam. Bill and I talked at length yesterday about where we were going, what direction we were going," Ireland said.

"We just felt like in order to move forward and not look back that we needed someone in place that shared the same philosophical compatibilities that we shared," he added.

Asked what it was about Cameron that was not compatible with his philosophy, Ireland said: "We didn't really know the guy that well.

"From that point, we are going to try to get someone that does share those things and we weren't completely sold that he did," he said.

Cowboys assistant head coach Tony Sparano is among the favorites for the vacant head coach position with the Dolphins.

(Reporting by Simon Evans in Miami, editing by Alan Baldwin and Miles Evans)