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The detail not being mentioned is yes, we may be getting a starter in Maxwell, but we are paying a lot (salary wise) for him. We’re not only giving up a 4th, but moving down 5 spot in the first blows donkey dick IMO. Someone ALWAYS falls a little in the top of the 1st and 8 would have been a perfect spot to grab that player. We alleviated Philly of a monster contract, and an oft-injured LB. We shouldn’t have given up what we did. Al posted that we may convert Maxwell’s salary into a signing bonus and spread it out over 5 years? Isn’t that what we just did with Suh’s contract? We
d better hope the “Tannnbaum Way” works because we are fucked financially in the years to come.
getterdone says:
March 8, 2016 at 5:44 pm
Tbomb isn’t the negotiator I thought he was. This now becomes a sizable gamble on two injured players who’ve yet to reach their full potential….and we’re a team full of holes still.
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Seems like the Dolphins are currently doing similar things the Jets did back when Tbomb was GM which is scary.
Regarding Lamar Miller; at this point I’m sure the team direction will be Matt Forte in the interim while a future RB will be taken this or next year. Forte will be Tbomb’s Ladainian Tomlinson while Ajayi will be Tbomb’s Shonne Green.
It seems like all we do with this team is think about this year and next year, and never the future. It’s about time someone has the balls to stop it. I don’t think we’re that good that we can make a 1 YR run. If we keep doing this we never will be.
We are not even close to that good.
OD, where are you? Help us sort this mess out. 😯
Al posted that we may convert Maxwell’s salary into a signing bonus and spread it out over 5 years? Isn’t that what we just did with Suh’s contract?
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Yes.
But Maxwell’s restructure was voluntary on the player side (and the Fins apparently made it contigent to a trade agreement). Suh’s restructuring was done via a team option on the original contract to do so (player had no control as it was defined in the contract).
Thanks. My point is we are screwed in the future.
Get a clue, go look at the salary cap site http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/cap/ then repeat what you just said.
Brian in NY says:
March 8, 2016 at 5:52 pm
I read he partially tore that ACL again.
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Yes, technically a grade II sprain is a partial tear
Thank you Dr.
This is from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons:
Description
About half of all injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament occur along with damage to other structures in the knee, such as articular cartilage, meniscus, or other ligaments.
Injured ligaments are considered “sprains” and are graded on a severity scale.
Grade 1 Sprains. The ligament is mildly damaged in a Grade 1 Sprain. It has been slightly stretched, but is still able to help keep the knee joint stable.
Grade 2 Sprains. A Grade 2 Sprain stretches the ligament to the point where it becomes loose. This is often referred to as a partial tear of the ligament.
Grade 3 Sprains. This type of sprain is most commonly referred to as a complete tear of the ligament. The ligament has been split into two pieces, and the knee joint is unstable.
Partial tears of the anterior cruciate ligament are rare; most ACL injuries are complete or near complete tears.
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The last line makes you wonder….if Kiko’s 2nd injury is rare; what’s in store for his future? My hope lies in that he finished the season strong with 17 tackles the last two games including a season high 8 solo tackles in his final game.
We can only hope
These moves remind me of something:
2016:
Replace Grimes with Maxwell, OV (and Wake) with Williams
2013:
Replace Dansby with Ellerbe, Burnett with Wheeler
It’s just not that easy to switch players in and out.
Let’s hope you’re wrong this time….lol
Sure seems like it is. We’re going to have another adjustment period to start 2016, with all the new players, but I like what they’ve done so far.
The definition of insanity is repeating the same behaviors and expecting a different outcome.
-Albert Einstein
Appropriate quote for this team.
That’s a little loose when talking about what this team is doing.
They say look at GB, Pit, and Cin they don’t go the route of FA, and look at them. This is still a QB driven league, when RT gets his head out, all these same moves we’ve been doing that didn’t work will start to work.
@AbramsonPBP: Cam Wake staying with Dolphins per @RapSheet. So now you have Mario Williams, Cam Wake and they’ll have to add a 3rd DE for rotation
For those of you freaking out about dropping from 8 to 13, if we had converted on field goal last season we would have been at 13 anyway…
But the field goal wouldn’t have kept us from losing our 4th rd pick.
Im not going back on liking the players we got. I think Maxwell is a good pickup for us, he fits what we are doing, he is a goo CB. The player i think turns out for us. Kiko i think turns out to be a good player for us, but regardless of my feeling towards this i dont like losing the picks, i dont like losing the ability to add a player through the draft, and im not overly fan of ever moving back in the draft and not gaining a pick in compensation.
@Jeff_McLane: “Reports” the #Eagles swapped 1st rd picks w/ Dolphins and also received a 4th rd pick are erroneous, I’m told. Patience, young Skywalkers.
See those fucktards…they should be drug down a rocky street and then have rubbing alcohol poured on them before being set to flames for reporting bullshit that has not confirmation.
dbolt48 says:
March 8, 2016 at 6:06 pm
@AbramsonPBP: Cam Wake staying with Dolphins per @RapSheet. So now you have Mario Williams, Cam Wake and they’ll have to add a 3rd DE for rotation
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Naw, we got Dion FF coming back. 😉
But seriously, I’d still draft a DE in the 1st or 2nd round. Mario & Wake are on the wrong side of 30!
LOL!
I’m not a fan of us trading back from 8-13, but look at any teams draft yr over yr, and you’ll see how few players actually are any good. In the past 10 yrs we only have a handful of guys that are very good. I’ll still hate this trade if we gave up 2 picks from rounds 1-5, changing slots is ok, except the first rd.
roll that up with losing a pick and how does it feel then lol. Its the deal that was reported before that bothers me, the swapping of pick is the third fucking story we have heard so far.
swapping of picks only.
steveccnv says:
March 8, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Get a clue, go look at the salary cap site http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/cap/ then repeat what you just said.
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Brian in NY says:
March 8, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Thanks. My point is we are screwed in the future.
FUTURE Steve. Not this season where we have converted $18 million of Suh’s salary and $11.5 Million of Maxwell’s salary into signing bonuses that will be spread out over the course of FUTURE years. This is the worst way to do business, borrowing from the future to try to take care of problems now.
Except the cap goes up every yr by $10M+. We’re fine with the cap, relax. One thing most on here seem to forget is we carry over about $10M per yr, they keep this money for insurance during the yr, in case they need to make a trade.
You guys that don’t get this are the ones crying about the future. You have more flexibility, if you carry over the $10M instead of paying it this yr, and if not used it’s the same thing as paying it this yr.
Yes, but we are not going to have the money to carry over in the future if we keep pushing money off. At some point, it has to be paid.
Id cut Wake, if he doesn’t restructure. He shouldn’t be paid as an most every down guy if he is going to take less snaps.
You don’t pay all this money for players to get rid of your great players. We’re trying to win.
Everyone needs to relax & just see the end game.
I can’t wait to SHIT ON CHRIS PERKINS! 🙂
Brian,
I looked at OVERTHECAP’s revision to Suh’s contract details and almost screamed
Ready for this one?
” On March 5, 2016 the Dolphins restructured Suh’s contract for salary cap relief by converting his base salary to a signing bonus. The Dolphins converted $20 million to create $16 million in cap room and add $4 million in cap charges to each remaining contract year.”
So basically, the Fins have really leveraged themselves so if Suh gets injured the team is really fucked in the asshole like they’ve never seen. Under the original structure, he could have been disposed of after this season with a dead money hit of $25.285 mill (alot but somewhat manageable). Under the restructure, Suh’s 2017 dead money hit is now $41.285 mill (WOWZERS). His 2018 hit is $22.2 mill (similar to what it would have been in 2017 but another year of injury risk added).
Suh’s pro-rated signing bonus charge went from 5.1 to 9.1 (+4) after the restructure.
His base salary for 2016 was originally scheduled to be $23.485 mill (+ 5.1 pro-rated signing bonus = 28.585 2016 charge that was restructured into a new 2016 base salary of 3.485 million (23.485 less 20 mill converted to a new signing bonus of +4 per year).
You get screwed when you sign Malik Jackson for $90M and he sucks like J. Thomas, not when you sign a great player for big $$. You do have a point on him getting hurt though, but that’s part of the game.
Its true injuries can happen but the guy has been relatively injury free his entire career. Im not overly worried about that, but we are married to him for several years. This isnt a problem for me because i think he’s a great player and kind of guy you build a defense around, but it really depends on your opinion there.
His family & he will continue to eat well.
It’s a very dangerous game to be playing, regardless of injury. That’s an EXTRA $4 million per year on top of what they will paying him those years.
Next year we won’t have any cap room, so we won’t have to worry about crap like this. That’s something to look forward to. lol
That’s ignorant.
Not ignorant, more like accurate.
Very accurate
The 2017 Dolphins defense
This is an old picture, Grimes still in it on the left there…. maybe crop him out so its more current.
LOL!
What were 3 positions we’ve been harping on all offseason? We’ll we just landed a DE, LB and CB before FA and the draft. Put it in perspective, it’s about adding players, not doing it one specific way. We added solid starters, potentially really good players if everything breaks right. There are always some questions but that’s the case with rookies too.
We’re better today than we were yesterday. Now we can continue to build on that.
2 years $16M was a good deal for Mario.
The deal for Mario was a great one. No arguments there. Some of the deals that have been reported for the trade have been good, some ok, some awful…so will have to see which is right. So far the players we have picked up have been good pickups.
steveccnv says:
March 8, 2016 at 6:30 pm
You get screwed when you sign Malik Jackson for $90M and he sucks like J. Thomas, not when you sign a great player for big $$. You do have a point on him getting hurt though, but that’s part of the game.
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Agreed, the current deals being done by Miami indicate 2017 or bust (dumping everyone including RT after 2017 if things don’t work out on both sides of the ball with the vets and current hold overs from 2015).
except for Suh lol…..
That’s right, this team is set up to try and win now, not in a few years. If we’re not good enough to get into the playoffs and compete for a championship like every other team in the playoffs tries to do the next couple of seasons, we’ll be starting over anyway. We’re in a 1-2 year window the way the team is set up. Might as well try to enjoy it and hope for the best. Complaining about swapping down 5 spots in the 1st and giving up a 4th rd pick is pretty trivial.
Tbomb’s manouvering
End result is usually Belichick doing this
Suh’s family & he will continue to eat well.
Sounds like Pacman’s coming to Miami.
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@FinsInsider: @REALPACMAN24 See you soon
Wow, looks like we could have a D of stars this yr.
Wow only $8M per for Mario, that’s awesome, don’t let the door…OV. Sounds like we’re going to rescind the transition tag on OV.
Dbolt,
LOL, what a cast of crazies on D….
Mario Williams, great talent but may have quit on his teammates in Buffalo because he wasn’t happy.
Pacman Jones (no description needed)
Suh who has been known to take cheap shots on QB
Dion “Roids” Jordan (still here for now)
Thank goodness Jonathan Martin quit when he did…Imagine if he were on the 2016 team. The D players would have really made him cry.
I’m to the point that I’m fine with Pacman snorting coke out a stripped ass as long as he covers on Subdays and is all in. Mario Williams, we’ll see. Rex did something similar playing Coples out of position also.
Steve,
The way we are spending, we will not have anything to carryover to next season. Also, even IF the cap goes up $10 million per season we have already spent $4 million of that by converting Suh’s salary into a signing bonus. Essentially, that leaves $6 million per season that it will increase for us.
The team is highly leveraged at this point to win now.
It’s 2016-17 or bust
Yep! I’d rather be trying to do that than be in year one of a rebuild which is really painful.
We just earned $4.743M by signing Mario and dumping OVs transition tag (not finalized, but no way is he going to sign with us), and still have $22M left on the cap, why can’t we carry over $10M to next yr. We also have room to do something with Jordan FF $3.2M savings, if we want to. The cap is fine, just relax.
Enjoy the ride fellas, and let the Kool Aid flow 😛
It either works or it busts and we’re right back where we’ve been for years so why let future cap situations bother us? I want to start winning now, not a few years from now when we have all those awesome draft picks we landed so we can win for a decade. That’s not how it works anymore anyway. Guys hit the market and leave. You try to get to a point where you can go for it because few teams are dynasty’s.
Yep, play to win now. 4 yrs ago we all said I don’t want Peyton, because in 2 yrs the Broncos are going to suck, how’d that work out?
The only way to have a dynasty like the Cheats, besides cheating is to have great QB play. None of these moves will matter anyways, unless RT steps up.
Not sure what we have to loose, we’ve sucked most of this century. I’m welcoming all of these personnel changes.
Steve
What we have to lose is another year of trying to operate like the best teams do. PITT, NE and BALT never do this. We do it every year, and guess who’s in the playoffs almost every year, and who isn’t. Someone needs to be responsible, and say, OK, we’re gonna actually BUILD a team, little by little through the draft, and not spend like crazy every single year. It’s ridiculous. It really needs to stop, or we’ll be saying the same thing like we have been year after year.
Who have they spent big on this yr? We replaced Grimes’ $9.5 cap hit for a $12.5 cap hit(which is in negotiations now to be lower) and 2 starters, that can’t be any worse than Grimes and any LB we had last yr. We got Williams for almost $5M less than OV would’ve cost on the transition tag. We lowered the salaries of Cameron and Misi.
I don’t get your point Mike. Because Pitt, Balt, and GB do it through the draft that means that’s the only way it can be done? News flash those teams have QBs.
We spent big on the Maxwell contract that we traded for, and we picked up a LB who’s been injured more than he’s healthy. That’s not forward thinking, that’s hoping for the best without a care about the future. Then we signed Mario Williams. While the contract isn’t bad, he’s a risk and we didn’t HAVE to pick him up, they just can’t help themselves. We weren’t really going to sign OV, so saying we took that money is folly, he was goners.
I get it now, when I write something its folly and when you write something it’s fact.
Yeah huge risk with that $1M for Alonso. As of now the Maxwell contract is a 1 yr loner, I wish we could do that with all the FAs we’ve signed in the past 10 yrs.
Mario Williams is a beast, a DL with Mario, Wake, and Suh…
#LetItRide is my motto for the season, get what you can now and worry about next yr, next yr.
Ross at start of Free Agency.
Steve
Do we have a QB? You better hope we do, because we can’t afford one now! LOL
We’ll find out in 2016.
Players we have built from the college draft and UDFA pool.
Offense:
OL Pouncey, Thomas, James, Turner, Douglas
TE Sims
WR Landry, Parker, Hazel
QB Tannehill
RB Ajayi, Williams (UDFA)
Defense:
DT Phillips
DE Fede
LB Misi, Jenkins, Hewitt, Vigil and Hull (UDFAs)
CB Taylor, McCain, Lippett
S Jones, Aikens
STs:
K Franks (UDFA)
P Darr (UDFA)
LS Denney (UDFA)
Now we have another draft to add some good players. It’s not as heavy FA laden as people think. Some of the FAs we’ve signed are some of the best at their positions. Many others are guys off the street, journeymen and long shots. What we need is a coaching staff to get them all on the same page and performing at their best together. We haven’t seen that yet. There was lots of dysfunction as we’ve found out.
Go Phins!!!!
We could have cut Grimes, and just drafted LB’s, DE’s, and CB’s in this draft, but NOOOOOOOO, I want my Oompa Loompa NOW DADDY!
well guys …did we give a 4th round pick or not
Hulk angry we traded down in first round without getting more draft picks
You guys still reading that false report?
Mike, Alonso missed a season due a knee injury and had a setback for 5 games last year but finished up well. He’s only been in the league 3 seasons. He’s played in 27 games and missed 16 due to the season ending knee injury prior to the 2014 season. Alonso blew his knee working out at Oregon before the season started. It’s easy to look at it that way but all season ending knee injuries force guys to miss games. We’ll see if he can get his career going again and if he can we have a very good young LB.
Remember too he had to pass a physical for the trade to go through.
Now we are going to sign ass wipe Pac Man. He will stay on the straight and narrow while in South Beach – right.
When we signed Suh we were all in, no turning back now.
I thought it was a mistake then and I still think it is. Good teams build thru the draft.
Doesn’t matter Ross is all in.
Steve:
That was a false report? What was the deal if you know?
It hasn’t come out yet.
Steve
If we wanted to sign OV, we would have franchised him, not transition tagged him. You can’t honestly tell me that you think we had serious intentions of matching OV to a big contract, can you?
They don’t want to pay OV $15M per yr, if he came somewhat cheaper they were going to try to sign him. I’m pretty sure you were one of those that said he wasn’t worth north of $10M.
They really wanted to sign OV, but to something like $10M per yr for 5 yrs.
He’s not Steve, which is why I said he was gone. We didn’t have to use his money, but they just can’t help themselves. We could have cut Grimes too, and drafted his replacement, but we can’t seem to grasp that concept.
Lets go slow build through the draft, then in 5 yrs still not know, if RT is a franchise QB.
Really? What have we done to make it better for RT? Does Maxwell play LG? Does Super Mario play RG? All this spending, and the O-line STILL SUCKS!!!
You don’t think a good D is a QBs 2nd best friend, next to his OL?
We’ve been talking about a lot of prospects we could target. Well there are still many of them who could be there at #13.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospectrankings
I’ll tell you right now I like the idea of Ragland at #13 if that’s the deal. Alonso, Jenkins, Ragland, Misi, Hewitt, Vigil and Hull is a lot better than what we’ve had.
I don’t think we loose a lot dropping to #13
provided Jack or Ramsey are off the board before #8 – and it looks that way
when you get into the DEs and CBs or even OL
I think the talent at 13 is the same as 8
Ken
We can continue to say that good teams build through the draft, and we can also continue to see our team at 6-10, 8-8 or whatever, and not in the playoffs every year because they don’t listen. They just keep chasing that rabbit at the track, but haven’t learned you can’t actually catch it.
Totally agree
We’ve busted through the draft for years, that’s been the problem. Look at how many came and went. I for one am not sure what you mean by building through the draft? I just posted about it and nobody touched it. And I didn’t count the draft picks we’ve had that we’re likely to lose to FA that were also part of us not being a winning team. So tell me what you’re getting at that we haven’t done?
We have busted through FA imo. Every year we land the high priced FA and every year those high priced FAs let us down
Steve:
Ross may be all in all but that doesn’t mean he is all in the right way
Maybe, maybe not. After you draft guys and they’ve done mostly nothing for 2 yrs, then start to pick up in yr 3 and are very good in yr 4, like OV or Miller, don’t you then have to pay them as a FA?
We all know every team wants to build through the draft, but when that doesn’t work so well you have to improvise, and that’s what you’re seeing now.
I just feel it’s more of the same old same old winning in FA but not on the field
He’s “all-in” —-the SHITTER!!!!!!
I like Williams and I like Maxwell. I have little faith Alonzo will ever again be the player he was but I don’t think we have significantly upgraded the roster from where we were
Alonso played the last 9 games of the season last year and had 17 tackles the last two games of the season so why?
That said, FA and the draft hasn’t even happened yet. LOL
Alonso only cost us $1M, we don’t know about the compensation yet, so if he sucks we cut ties, better than signing a guy for a huge guarantee.
He was fine at the end of the season
(as Tim said)
but I don’t think we should confuse him with an all pro
He has that ability though. His rookie year was sick. That should count for something.
I’m psyched to have him because when he was a rookie I was like wow why can’t we find a guy like that? Let’s root for him to get back to that instead of being like “well yeah he’s always hurt and probably won’t ever be good again and we’ll probably move on from him in 2017.” Oh okay grandpa, any more good news you want to talk about? LOL
Steve
Whether we have a good D remains to be seen, but it doesn’t directly affect his performance as much as upgrading the O-line, which we haven’t done yet.
It did wonders for Peyton this yr.
FA starts tomorrow and I think we target a guard.
I for one am not going to bash our front office for being aggressive before FA even starts when they just landed 3 starters at every level of defense. Remember none of these deals go through if the player doesn’t pass a physical. So right now they’re all healthy.
Players get hurt playing this game. You never know who it’s going to be. Frank Gore had like 3-4 significant knee injuries in college and early in his pro career and he’s gone onto have a really good, long career. We don’t know the future but this game is about acquiring talent and there are only so many qualified players to choose from.
Let it play out. We’re probably going to add another 25 new players between FA, the draft and the UDFA pool which you never know. Wait until we have our 90 man roster.
SOMEONE UP THE PAGE said”We’re a better team today than we were yesterday.” –I SAY BULLSHIT until we prove it on the FIELD!!!
I agree, they can sign or draft all these great players, but it still has to amount to wins or it means nothing. On the other hand I’d rather they made the moves they did instead of sitting there with the same garbage team we had last yr.
Someone?
Mario Williams is as good as Wake and better than OV.
Alonso healthy and ready to go is our best LB.
Maxwell is one of our starting corners and has more proven ability than any other corner on our team not named Grimes.
I really don’t give a fuck any longer how the team is built, how much money they spend in FA, how much they spend on future yrs, just wins some damn games and have a chance to compete for a title.
I’d rather they build through the draft and had a competitive team every yr, but I’d also rather they win this yr instead of waiting 3 or 4 yrs for the draftees to proper.
HERE’s something to chew on. In P. Manning’s 18 seasons he won 200 games as a starter (200-92). –His first year the woeful Colts were 3-13. But, in his next 17 seasons, Manning was 197-79, averaging 11.6 wins PER SEASON, A 71.4 WINNING PERCENTAGE ON GAMES HE STARTED!!
Lets hope it all works out. A good coach can get a winning defense out of the players we have. I just hope they still save some money to save the oline. Maybe we go oline with 13 pick.
Tim
I made it clear already. We could have cut Grimes, Cut Wake, let OV go, and then draft their replacements, we didn’t have to get Maxwell and Alonso, and we didn’t have to sign Super Mario. We just do it because they can’t stop doing it. Then we wouldn’t have to had to restructure Suh, who we shouldn’t have gotten in the first place.
And that would not be smart after paying Suh and RT. Ross wants to win now, he’s not going to wait 4 yrs for the rookies to develop and if they do maybe have a good team. It really doesn’t matter what we think.
That’s why Ross is a piss poor owner who doesn’t know how to build a team. Winning in FA is usually a recipe to not winning on the field
I feel the same way
We can still do that and be even deeper. We had to change this team up a bit. We were 6-10 with what we had. We’re not the only team looking for proven NFL talent out there and not even close to being the biggest spenders. We made a trade and signed a top flight DE who was cut for multiple reasons, mostly that he quit on his team, I love how that one came out as soon as it was official we signed him. It’s like politics. LOL
Steve
If our defense is as good as Denver’s, then YES, it would help a lot. Somehow I doubt that will happen.
Getting all these guys now also opens the door to draft OL where ever we draft in the 1st.
That is one thing I am hoping for
Denver picked up Ware in FA
They even picked up Manning in FA
So I don’t buy into building g a contender is only possible through the draft
but I think we need draft picks
and I don’t get giving up draft picks for run of the mill kind of players
I don’t mind using FA for blue chip players like Suh
I think Denver as done the same with guys like Manning and Ware
but you need to bring in good ypung players around those guys
Like I said before, you can’t compare a QB to a DT.
Denver drafted Miller, Thomas, most of their OL and their LBs. The bulk of that team was drafted
Ware and Manning were essentially role players this year
LOL, people forget stuff like that. Keep going there’s more.
Tim Knight says:
March 8, 2016 at 5:13 pm
I love watching fans get crazy over draft picks. Without that 4th our entire offseason is fucked! LOL
tim,
that is cause you are stupid stupid stupid. you dont sit around in all your free time and look at draft prospects and know better then the fins who to draft and who will be a super duper better then ever 4th round pick. you are so stupid you probably think that some 4th round picks dont even make the the team
lol @ some of you. this building thru the draft. yet some of you were the same ones complaining about fans not caring about a meaningless win against the cheats and wanting a higher draft pick.
Ken says:
March 8, 2016 at 8:09 pm (Edit)
Denver drafted Miller, Thomas, most of their OL and their LBs. The bulk of that team was drafted
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I wonder if Denver really has drafted much more players than we have
there are a few teams out there that have been really successful building through the draft
Pitt, Green Bay, Cincinnati to name a few
but I don’t think of Denver as one of those teams (Patriots either)
We drafted 2016 probowlers Landry, Pouncey and Jones
but we don’t really draft well
It really doesn’t matter where you get players
It matters that you get good ones
And so if I’m looking at Maxwell and Alonso
I’m thinking – are these guys difference makers
I don’t realy think so
but to me Mario Williams can be a difference maker
the same way DeMarcus Ware has been
If you want to be a contender you do have to hop all over that and get every edge you can
but the problem with the Dolphins is – where is the foundation?
I’m not concerned about chasing goof players in FA
I’m concerned with overpaying mediocre players bc you don’t do a good job of drafting
Suh and Williams are good players
but some of our other moves over the years are just kind of perplexing
(Burnett & Dansby & Ellerbeee & Wheeler and so on and so on)
It still feels like the same old same old. The moves may pan out but until they do I remain skeptical
To be honest
I feel like its a cycle of failure too
but theoretically I think FA works fine
But there are players worth your $
and then there are players where a draft pick might be better and defiantely cheaper so you get better quality players with the cap room you have
We’ve wasted a lot of $ on mediocre players
so ross is a piss poor owner cause he wants to win now.
lmao, yep i agree. dammit you ross, you suck as an owner for wanting to win now. please sell the team to some owner who is more interested in winning in 2027. the hell with winning now.
Ken
Ware was a major factor in both the Super Bowl win and the AFC championship
and Manning – I mean, the last 3 years in Denver have been because of Manning
Denver is not a contender without Manning
Denver has made good FA moves
good personel moves in general
We just have not
I don’t think its draft vs Draft v Free Agency
I think its good moves vs bad moves
Last year Manning was almost the reason why the Broncos didn’t win the SB
I don’t think so Ken
They owe the last 3 years to Manning
if nothing more – he’s been smart enough to avoid loosing games for them
now this is fucking funny. this is how smart you have to be to be a journalist.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/seven-takeaways-from-day-1-of-nfl-free-agency/ar-AAgvKbE?li=BBnb7Kz#page=5
5. Miami Dolphins still don’t understand how to build a winner
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5. Miami Dolphins still don’t understand how to build a winner
Byron Maxwell could soon be heading to Miami.© Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Byron Maxwell could soon be heading to Miami. Whereas Titans general manager Jon Robinson should be praised for providing his young quarterback with players who will help him develop, the same cannot be said for the Dolphins.
Despite a new personnel man in charge, general manager Dennis Hickey, Miami is back on the wrong track once again after making the biggest (and most ill-conceived) splash of the 2015 edition of NFL free agency when it signed Ndamukong Suh to a horribly overpriced contract and received little in return.
On the one hand, getting rid of cornerback Brent Grimes would save Miami $6.5 million against the cap. This move is rumored to be on the horizon. By itself it’s a questionable move, given the fact that Grimes was the best cornerback on the roster last year. Though, the savings makes it understandable.
However, what Hickey is doing instead, trading for Maxwell and his gargantuan salary, along with an injury-prone inside linebacker, is simply ridiculous.
no wonder troll boy still has a job.
Nine times out of ten recently it’s a young fucking GUY. Not a Geezer. Not a woman, old or any, lol. Not a new driver. It’s a young 20-30 something little douche bag that mother fucking holds up traffic driving – SLOW!
I drive like a bat out of hell, always have. I thought all guys did, they used to. Now more and more I see these punks lolly gagging along holding up traffic. Must be texting. Ugggg
Man up dammit
There is only 1 OL I would consider at #13 and that’s Stanley
I guess you can make an argument for Conklin as well
But both those guys are tackles
So you basically have to draft them to play them at OG for at least 1 year
but maybe we can trade down
Still land a player like Spriggs or Decker
and then draft a player like Whitehair or Alexander with an extra pick?
If we draft OL with high picks, I would like to know its a guy who can play interior OL on day 1
There is no Zach Martin in this draft
most of the guys I see that are high picks at OT are prejocected to be OTs in the NFL
and the OGs are OGs in the NFL
and aren’t first rounders
So OL early is a little tricky
I’m hoping we make a run at a vet OG in FA
Stanley is my man crush. That is who I want.
We’re not going OL at 13. They’re doing what you said and building this Defense.
I really hope so
but if they don’t land any OL before the draft
they might have to take OL early
I like Williams paired with Suh, everything might really be different now, lol.
Williams comes from the left so we still need OV or someone on the right side. I like Ogbah at 13.
Welcome back
its about fuckin g time
Williams played on the right side when he was in Houston
So he is good for either side
A birdie told me the Fins really like Conner Cook but drafting him would be difficult.
God that would be horrible
He’ll be the best NFL QB out of this draft.
Which shows you how bad this QB class is. I have watched a lot of Cook and I dont think he will be that good. He has physical talent but I think that his head is not in the game. I can’t get over the fact that he wasn’t a captain. What kind of leader will he be at the next level?
this bird?
He’s a bit unreliable
He also thinks Elvis shot Kennedy
u no next yr the fbi is going to the sealed records after 50 something yrs of the jfk assassination.
Ken says:
March 8, 2016 at 8:22 pm
It still feels like the same old same old. The moves may pan out but until they do I remain skeptical
ok but what, if no FA moves and all draft picks you wouldnt be skeptical.
i just dont care what they do, i had to even ask who these guys were. i will like every year, let you know in december 2016 what i think about all these moves. till then i think we should just talk about the cheerleaders
What about Ezekial at 8 would you guys all commit Hari-Kari?
I mean 13
I mentioned it earlier and it didn’t go over real well
but yet – you could switch gears from defense on the draft
and draft Ezekial and then OL in rounds 2 and 3
to me, once you go offense early in the draft – you are loosing the opotunity to build this defense in the draft
so at that pooint I’m all in on offense
Ezekial is one of the best players in the draft
Piggy top – players
1. Jalen Ransey
2. Myles Jack
3. Tunsil
4. Ezekial
in that order
son of a son of a shula says:
March 8, 2016 at 8:36 pm
He’ll be the best NFL QB out of this draft.
in a room full of 85 year old ladies i would probably be the second or third best qb, but that doesnt mean i am a going to be a good nfl qb
If we end up with
Wake – Suh – Phillips – Williams
as our DL
I will be elated
but the thought of
Alonso – Misi – Jenkins
behind that line kind of bring me down
and then our secondary would be
Maxwell – Jones – ? – ?(maybe McCain or even Lippett)
Ragland might be a good pick at #13
and of course Scooby Wright or a Dion Jones would wreak havoc behind that line
I guess I have to give up my Myles Jack dream 😦
Maybe Darron Lee at 13?
(Piggy’s tail stands up)
Shaq Lawson at 13 would be sweet too.
I kind of like that
especially if we let wake go
if we let Wake go
forget it
I’m all in on Lawson or Nkemdiche
and I am a Nkemiche fan
Yes – I mean to play DE not DT
Pacman can show him how to succeed in the league!
Piggs The once you go offense is sensible to me but it in this draft it would seem like Ireland picking again. Go opposite of the strength of the draft. There’s too much good D in this draft to let go by.
Yeah
its loaded with Defensive talent
so what’s the verdict guys. Are we going to win the super bowl next season and what players do you think we are going pursue tomorrow? Guard? safety?
we need to get on OG more than anything
but I can see safety as well
No, I don’t see winning the super bowl in 2016
but maybe we get on track and can be on a steady rise
Don’t even THINK of using “Ross” and “steady rise” in the same sentence.
I thought denver won SB in 2016. Maybe we will win 2017 SB
BASED ON THE LAST 7 YEARS, I predict Ross will pursue too many of the WRONG PLAYERS and not enough of the RIGHT PLAYERS!
Welcome back Sonny!
It’s New Years Eve, let’s party
FFR SAYS “So Ross is a piss poor owner because he wants to win now.” No, Rob!!–Ross is the worst owner in the history of the Dolphins because he and his lackeys PICK THE WRONG PLAYERS!!!!!!! —-AND THE WRONG COACHES, AND THE WRONG GM’S AND THE WRONG CEO’S AND THE WRONG ADVISERS!
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But hang in there, Rob. I’ve put in the good word for YOU to be Ross’s next tax adviser!
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SON-OF-A-SON: GREAT TO HAVE YOU AND YOUNG STANGER BACK ON THE BOARD!
Good to see you OD. I think of you every time I see those recent Old Dominion trucking commercials when they call themselves OD.
I’m gonna get Piggy to sue their asses for violating my trademarked “OD.” –God damn those fockers!!!
I like Joshua Perry for us in the second (unless Connor slides to there)
Why do you guys keep talking #13 that was a bogus report.
See below
I guess we will find out what the compensation was eventually
se just don’t know
The report about the trade comp may not be accurate
We will have to wait and see
I hope we didn’t give up a 4th rounder
That’s all I care about
https://twitter.com/allbrightnfl/status/707358734083723265
Ken, the Broncos signed significant FAs the last few years to get to where they are. They didn’t draft their core team. Look at their roster. They bought it. We built more through the draft than they did. They were just better at building a good team than we were.
That said our new regime is in year 1-2, not 7 LOL
Right, Ross gets a free pass on the first 7 years.
That’s not what I meant. LOL
It was an extreme figure contrasting the reality that TBaum has been here 1+ seasons as the overseer of what we do as a football team, and Grier as GM and Gase as HC with his staff have not even had a season yet. It’s mostly year one. I focus more on those guys than an owner who spends most of his time in NYC playing with Legos and building stuff.
Come on, OD. This is TBaum, Grier, Gase and staff making these moves, not Ross. He doesn’t know this stuff.
I tend to agree
if you want to go farther back (and stick a pencil in your eye to equal the pain)
bot Dante Culpepper and Drew Brees were free agents
but only one of the 2 were the right decision
The Seahawks signed guys like Michael Bennett and a host of other guys to help out on the DL before they made their super bowl run
they also drafted really well
but the bottom line is that success is predicated on whether the players you acquired are any good or not
Personally I think with guys like Ellerbee, Wallace or Wheeler – the writing was on the wall
but I tend to think Maxwell and Alonso fit that mold as well
As opposed to Mario Williams who appears to be a very good addition
I have to see the whole picture before I condemn or praise it
but I’m not happy about giving up draft picks if we did that
OD,
silly me, how stupid of me. i should have know ross is they worst owner in the history of anyone that has ever owned anything all cause you said so.
YOU ARE the master of the mis-quote. But tell me, who is THE ONLY OWNER IN FINS HISTORY not to win a playoff game? –Who is the only owner in Fins history with a cumulative losing record?? –The facts speak for themselves.
Sonny!!! Glad to see you. Don’t get me started on driving. LOL
It’s making me insane. Haul ass you pu@&y
have u left any presents with visits to the mother in law’s bathroom lately?
hhhmmmmmmmmm so ross PICK THE WRONG PLAYERS!!!!!!! —-AND THE WRONG COACHES, AND THE WRONG GM’S AND THE WRONG CEO’S AND THE WRONG ADVISERS!
yet you are putting i a good word for me to be his tax adviser. i think i just got insulted.
YEP.
Jets suck I suck it up and go to the Circle K now.
And I hate convenient store bathrooms.
Do they stare at you when you walk in the door? Gotta admit when MIL comes down for 3-4 weeks vacations I need to eat the chili more.You had me LMAO that day and anytime I think about my MIL.
SO PIGGY; IF Miller time signs with another team, would you consider taking “The Buckeye Bullet” in the first round when Miami picks?
Yes
I would
That guy has talent
But I’m never calling him the Buckeye Bullet
olddolphan says:
March 8, 2016 at 9:08 pm
YOU ARE the master of the mis-quote.
nope i am just the master at pointing out those of the one sided absurdness.
olddolphan says:
March 8, 2016 at 9:04 pm
Right, Ross gets a free pass on the first 7 years.
lol, hey now i thought i was the master of the misquote
TIM SAYS “Ross spends most of his time in NYC playing with Legos.” Boy, Tim, that’s a new one.–Somehow, I can’t see Huizenga doing that!
I don’t care what he does, he hired his football people and has an open checkbook, what else do you want him to do, he’s 75?
Oh I know, hire the next Don Shula. Oh okay, let me know who that is when you find him. I mean he went with Gase who has gotten nothing but good feedback from the NFL world except for the social media minions who know nothing about what’s happening here. Can we see it first before trying to criticize it?
That’s all I’m doing. I have no predictions. I’m going with the timeline of happenings and taking into account. I don’t gear up for this time of year to hate everything we do and predict doom and gloom as long as we still have that NY owner. I like the game and focus on the team. I didn’t collect football cards for different poses from owners. LOL
“Who is the only owner in Fins history with a cumulative losing record?? –The facts speak for themselves.”
yet some fans every year, year after year keep sending that idiot owner their hard earned money for season tickets. hmmmmmmm i wonder which one is being more foolish. oh well facts speak for themselves
Trump wins Michigan…I wonder what Ross thinks of that! 😉
did ross endorse him? I know the billionaires of S.Florida didn’t. How many delegates did he get? Remember he has to get 2/3 of the remaining elections and I don’t think he has a chance of that
LOL, I doubt Ross is Rep. He’s a NY & MI guy
Michigan is traditionally a blue state
It’s gonna be
Ohio
Florida
Pennsylvania
That make the election
Am I missing one of the swing states
I don’t think Trump can win Florida due to the last election was won because of B roward,Dade ,Palm beach and Orlando I beilve were Democratic and because of such large numbers population Obama won despite all the replican victories of the small counties.
if i were running for office and i won michigan i think i would ask if i could give it back
You have to drink all their tap water first
That’s the penalty
I’m pretty sure Ross is pretty much a republican
I can’t verify
Trump is a NY guy and he’s conservative
Reagan was a California guy
piggy,
was if you or time that was talking about how none of our votes matters anymore. i tend to agree with that. the popular vote is pretty much useless anymore.
it is kind of like this blog, it is fun to banter, bust and caress balls. bitch all we want of praise all we want about the fins, in the end none of it matters. i like messing with OD and how much he hates ross, but in the end none of it matters.
Yeah
It was me
It’s based on the electoral vote concept
But in FLA
Your vote does matter
piggy,
does one drink their water or eat it?
It’s likes slurpee I guess
GD, Ross has supported mainly republicans. It’s better for business. 😉
Kool, I hope he’s for the Donald.
piggy,
yeah i agree in fl my vote is more important then someone in NY or CALI. but in the end it all doesnt really count that much
Yeah, I fully expect the ‘selection’ to be stolen once again. Could cause a revolt in this country because a huge amount of people are for Trump.
Why? Cause they’re tired of the same BS every 4 years. The cat’s out of the bag.
People have wised up by going outside of mainstream media propaganda.
getterdone says:
March 8, 2016 at 6:11 pm
But the field goal wouldn’t have kept us from losing our 4th rd pick.
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But in that scenario you would have gotten two starters for a fourth round pick that’s good value
Way better than Kenny Stills for a 3rd round pick
Well, now the report seems erroneous. So let’s hope tmrw reveals we still have our 4th rd pick.
LOL, good one.
Lol
That would be my vote of it was on the ballot
you guys are crazy, you do all know that pinestraw is just clintons hair.
As of now. I know Grimes hasn’t come off the payroll but he probably will soon in the next few days. Jordan………..?
LDE Williams/Wake
LDT Suh/Phillips
RDT Mitchell/Phillips
RDE Fede/Moore (Williams will play weak side too)
SOLB Misi/Hewitt
MLB Alonso/Vigil
WOLB Jenkins/Hewitt/Hull
CB Maxwell, Lippett
CB Taylor, McCain
NB Taylor, McCain
S Jones
S Thomas/Aikens
1st – Shaq or Ogbah
2nd – Joshua Perry
3rd – I’ll get back to you on a bad ass Safety
Perry looks like a 1980’s 3-4 OLB type. He’s a hybrid edge guy in the new NFL.
Sean Davis might have moved to the 3rd round now after combine.
Then add 2 of the following names in the 1st & 2nd round then this defense is in business:
Ragland, Ogbah, Dodd, Lawson, Hargeaves, Apple,
Taylor is a bust, I doubt he makes it out of camp.
tim
they cant cut jordan. he was a draft pick. they need to build thru the draft. now cant go about cutting draft picks