Last week, the questions for Dolphins coach Tony Sparano got personal. Aside from answering the usual, you know, like why the right players weren’t in the game for a two-point conversion or how he met Brandon Marshall’s criticism of a game plan, Sparano also had to tell us why he’s selling his house.

Sparano, who will be removed from his job no later than January, and possibly before, had to stand in front of a throng of reporters and explain why he feels the need to move.

The questions are no less pointed when aimed at Dolphins players.

Why aren’t you playing well?

What do you think of “Suck for Luck?”

What did you think of the Florida Gators celebration that, in part, celebrated the other team’s quarterback?

Are you surprised you’re a last-place team and how does your terrible record compare to previous terrible records this franchise has endured?

The players, like Sparano, grin and bear it. They answer the call. They tell their side as best they can, trying to explain that which seems inexplicable — that the Dolphins simply are one of the NFL’s worst teams.

So how come general manager Jeff Ireland doesn’t have to answer for this mess?

How come he gets to fly under the same radar that on a daily basis spotlights Sparano and the players and targets them for critique and criticism?

The Dolphins, like any football team, are expected to stand on three legs. They need players to execute plays. They need coaches to develop players. And they need a personnel department to select those players.

The Dolphins are broken in all three areas.

But while the coach and the players have explained what is happening and why the season has gone so horribly wrong, the personnel department, headed by Ireland, has been quiet.

In the shadows.

Seemingly untarnished.

Definitely unaccountable.

I asked to speak with Ireland last week. He politely declined an interview that would have resulted in this space being filled with totally different words — his words, rather than mine.

My intent is not to shred his reputation or punish him for piecing together what is obviously a team lacking enough talent to succeed. My intent is to get answers as to why he, faced with various choices since the start of free agency, selected the avenues he did rather than others he didn’t.

The choices he made have helped lead to an 0-6 dead end. Perhaps he could explain his thinking for making those choices. Perhaps he could give context to moves made and background on moves never made.

And, yes, maybe he could step up, raise his hand and accept his fair share of responsibility for what’s happening to the team he put together.

But no.

I do not get that courtesy.

The fans do not get that courtesy.

The players and head coach that step forward daily do not get that respect and courtesy.

One could blame all this on Bill Parcells. He long ago instituted a One Voice policy over the Dolphins.

In the offseason, it’s theoretically the GM who is supposed to speak for the organization.

During the season, the coach is supposed to speak for the organization. Never are the coach and GM supposed to talk at the same time because Parcells didn’t want them talking over or against each other.

Parcells, by the way, never spoke for the Dolphins organization because he knew anytime he talked, he’d make both the GM and coach irrelevant because he was Bill Parcells and they weren’t.