The Dolphins managed to get perhaps the top DB in the 2018 NFL Draft and stayed put at #11 to do it as well. As usual, admittedly, Minkah wasn’t my pick, but also as usual, I can see why we got him. I think it’s clear the FO, Gase, and defensive coaches alike, all felt like we don’t really have that deep safety. Minkah is not only going to be a deep safety, he can cover in the slot, on the outside like a CB, and may possibly be the guy to cover TE’s. We’ll see, not going to get too far ahead of myself here.
There are many positives to glean from this selection, he thoroughly solidifies our secondary, and our CB’s will look even better knowing they have a guy they can rely on to pick up deep receivers in our zone defense. There’s also a negative. We just signed safety T.J. McDonald to a 4YR/$24M contract through 2021. Why? We have all-pro safety Reshad Jones, and if they wanted to draft a safety with our first pick, which is fine, why sign McDonald to a 4 YR contract. The only thing that makes sense is that T.J. McDonald will be our hybrid S/LB and most likely nickel LB. Can he handle that role? We’ll find out this season, for better or for worse. I’m not trying to knock the Fitzpatrick pick in the least, but I would love to see what the plan is, and ya know, hope there actually IS a plan.
In the meantime – Welcome to Miami Minkah Fitzpatrick, may you be blessed with a long and healthy career All-Pro career here in Miami! Go #29!
Finsmob Unleashed 
Piggy no Gisecki jerseys for you
ESPN2 for draft now
BailBondMike says:
April 27, 2018 at 7:59 pm
Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now let’s double down and get a blocking TE tomorrow, Smythe!!!
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
I would love Smythe too.
If we pick up Falk I’ll love this draft
Agreed. I like that kid out of Richmond too.
And now one of my favorite players in Kramer announces another Hawkeye. Nice.
Yessir!
There goes my man Josh Jackson!!!
Another Hawkeye Randy
Good pick for GB
I don’t think taking a guy like Ian Thomas in the 3rd or 4th if he is there is a bad idea
Rock you ok?
How much shit have you broken?
I have a Wake jersey, and that worked out
Rock is devouring a whole box of gogurt to console himself. Lol
Stanger,
I’ve seen every one of his catches. He has great Ball awareness, can jump out of the gym and has great hands. He’s tough too.
If you told me after 2 rounds we would have Fitzpatrick and Gisecki I would not have thought it possible
I am so happy with those two picks
^
Yeah….not looking so bad so far. And I wanted to trade down to take Gisecki in the low first.
Mike you also have a Jordan jersey which disqualifies you from ever buying another jersey of a player we have hope for
😂
Michael Jordan was a helluva player! Oh, you mean Dion FF. yeah, that . . .
Caroo, give that number up!!!!!
Carroo will get cut if he doesn’t! He may get cut anyway
I owe you a beer 🍺
I don’t think you will have to worry about that
Says a guy thinking about buying a jersey….lol.
D says:
April 27, 2018 at 8:02 pm (Edit)
If we pick up Falk I’ll love this draft
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Totally on the same page with you D
Bri – I didn’t buy a Landry or Ajayi jersey
Well, I had Landry for two years, and he worked out. There may never be a worse purchase than Piggy’s Ajayi Jersey.
Dolphins can do whatever they want with the rest of the picks…….we have our TE.
Agreed
Amen!
We have explosive personnel everywhere on offense.
We need that OL to come together. If it does and Tammy can return to form we may have something.
Tanny
I’m going to buy the jersey of every player we draft just to break the curse
Stop me!
That’s actually a good plan. Appease all the gods
Nooooooooo
Cards getting a WR for their new QB. Sam Bradford might as well not even unpack. lol
Picks are rolling in now.
I guess we won’t be drafting Kirk
😟
I don’t think I have ever been so happy about our first 2 picks of any draft.
I’m usually pretty happy with our picks because I let myself be lol. Still I do agree I’m pretty happy with our selections
Tim Knight says:
April 27, 2018 at 8:10 pm
We have explosive personnel everywhere on offense.
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As has been the case over the last 3 years, minus the TE position.
And don’t forget our mid-2000s campaign, where Peter King felt the exact same way. Our O-Line had BETTER be right, or it’s all for nothing.
We didn’t have Drake, Wilson and Grant for 3 years.
Can I get a cheers and fuck yeah this draft!!!?
Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!
Straight up!
Cheers and FUCK YEAH !!
Not to sound greedy or toooo gleeful, but most of these day 2 picks are guys we can live without
and several guys we would want are still out there.
I really want DT Hurst in the third.
I think round 3 is best avail QB. then second TE and LB/DT with our two 4ths
The Colts are having my draft!
The Dolphins are having mine. 😉
I like ours!
But some of my Fav’s going to the Colts!
Philly taking Goedert??
Rock did you drop your pipe?
GOEDERT to Philly!!!!
M13, if you don’t stop with your doom and gloom stuff I’m going to put a spell on you. LOL
LOL
Somebody had better check in on Rockphin!!!
yup. cold blooded knowing Dallas would likely take Witten’s replacement.
I’m the BPA selection was made in the first round and pretty much in the second, though there was a little bit of need applied to that pick. Either way we got two great players that are going to help us next year so that’s the definition of successful picks
Woohoo!! A TE who can actually create mismatches! Loving our draft so far.
Think the O is gonna be a lot more interesting this year at least.
Yeah baby!
Goedert would have been a good pick too but I still like Gisecki better
He went #50……was surprised some teams didn’t kick in before then, but yeah he could end up being the best TE in the draft.
I just don’t want an Asiata type DT. That’s not gonna stop any other team.
DT needs to be high as possible cuz they don’t help much on STs and such.
And they are always playing against prime starters cuz OL never come out unless they are hurt bad.
A LB or a S make good ST guys … even a UDFA.
I think you say it –
Guess Icky
t/y
Geez, Goodell will do ANYTHING for applause.
Connor Williams!!!
I was fine with either Gisecki or Goedert. Just wanted one of them.
Mike E, tell me how you feel right now. I want to know. LOL
Perhaps someone should check in with Mike E, too! LOL
wife left him in the tool shed…. she’s enjoying the house to herself.
He was so excited in his shed when his wife said it was Gisecki he stepped on a rake and knocked himself out. He can’t even enjoy it. LOL
I’m here, but I lost my voice screaming Gesickiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Brian, I have no idea what jersey you’ll by your son, please do tell? LOL
MTP not the crazy bastard everyone makes him out to be.
Grier may have tied him up and threw him in the closet. lol
I think Grier has tamed him.
he’s still that guy
Anthony Miller nice pick. That is going to help Trubisky
Bail bond Mike loves him
I was coming back from hiking with my daughter and stopped to get something at Redbox when the Dolphins were making the pick. I had her hold my phone while the pick was coming in and tell me who it was. I was like, there’s gotta be a ton of people falling out on this blog with that pick. Funny enough, our two draft picks have been from 2 of the colleges that I hate the most. If we pick someone from Notre Dame, that’ll be the trifecta of college evil.
Smythe!!!!!
lol he’d be a good next TE
Tim, it’s Gesicki not Gisecki
Guess Icky
Tim, it’s not Fitzpatrick!
I think I might get that one
Seems like a safe bet. The way I figure, get the jersey the year they are drafted and you have at least four years with it!
Colts should have gone with Reid. This Turay kid may take some serious coaching to compete at nfl level. At least he is big and FAST
Ken I had Goedert second on my TE list mostly because he is a more true hybrid TE and Gesicki is more if a move TE with iffy blocking skills. They may were looking for that to add to our offense. Gesicki was the second best receiving TE if I ranked them that way. So I see it as splitting hairs to say we didn’t get the best TE prospect left
I would have been good with either but I am glad it was Geisicki
Yes, Gesicki is not being brought in for his blocking skills.
Tim you make MTP and Grier sound like a couple lol. Man Grier has really taned MTP, he was so wild in his days before Grier. MTP was going on all those crazy whitewater rafting trips and now he just sits at hone with Grier and spoons
The way this draft they should keep spooning
Maybe more than that. LOL
Many of you keep refusing to accept the three of them work together is all. It’s old for me.
I think we need to take Falk in the third if we are going to get him
Again we thinking alike. Get out of my head D. LOL
In a league where mismatches are everything
An athlete like Gesicki is a dream
We’ll see if he gets doubled, but he for sure is gonna get attention. Fast and tall with good hands.
How many years have we all been saying the Dolphins needed a dynamic seam-splitting TE. Geisicki has a lot of pressure to preform on him. Same time, he just made the job of the other guys in the middle so much easier. Used to really piss me off how our TEs before (even if liked some of them) were an after thought for opposing Ds.
so Smythe is Fasano 2.0?
Pretty much
There’s not a lot of great blocking TEs in this draft
He’s one of the better ones
Ty Warren is huge
Gesicki is from the town where our shore house is.
Willie Brown… damn I hated that guy back in the day. lol
He said Oakland Raiders
Warriors and A’s only. fuck the Raiders. lol
If he’s a character problem
I probably have to give up my dream of drafting Guice
Anyone ready to get on the John Kelly train with 🐖
Sam Houston State… UTSA…. UTEP… lmao… I guess TWU is next (Tx Women’s Univ. in case y’all didn’t know)
I bet they have a Sue
Is Harrison Phillips still out there?
yes. just thinking that too
of course you’d know that had you not been counting dead bugs in the tool shed.
Dalton Schultz is also a good blocker, and an underrated receiver too
I can only say the latter because we already have Gesicki. 😀
We only have to wait 8 picks before we pick #73 in the 3rd. We have a ton of options in the 3rd to get a good player. I’m fuckin so psyched!!! I think Fitz and Gesicki have already helped change the dynamic of our team based on projection. These guys are impact players.
Little longer than 8 picks….they are at #59 now.
In the 3rd.
The DB run is good for us. We’re loaded there.
If we could land Phillips, that would be an even more impressive haul. It’s already impressive.
sure seems to be mostly defensive players taken so far, although it’s probably closer to 50/50
several good DTs left .. Harrison Phillips I like a lot but Maurice Hurst is my favorite.
Then there’s also Da’Shawn Hand again out of Alabama.
and two more I like from Florida schools, Derrick Nnadi and Deadrin Senat.
Later I’d take Poona Ford or the boxer’s son Kendrick Norton.
Shaquem next. 💥🐬💪
I’ll take him. Biggest heart in the draft
There goes Piggy’s love child
Alex Smith gets an RB to take some pressure
There goes Guice
could have been Miami Guice
There he goes
(Piggy wipes sweat from his brow)
Unfortunately that’s the same team that drafted seastrunk
I get that Gesicki can’t block, but not hard to find a TE that does. Heck….we could bring Fasano back. He’s real good at it.
Guice and the hogs….hmmmmm
we now have 14th pick A.G. (after Guice).
Guessing gonna be a big ugly.
DT you mean or OG?
Just some dude that spends a long time filling up his tray at the lunch counter. Could be either of those.
I see you are using my draft calendar
Steelers asking: ‘Martavius Who?”
https://twitter.com/allbrightnfl/status/990032078472269824?s=21
yikes. could explain the “angry running” they keep using to describe him.
I know you guys are all excited about the draft but I have to say that my new dishwasher was installed today and I’ve not been this excited in awhile.
That makes for a very nice day. Use pods for no spots
Don’t eat them
just lock them up so the teenagers don’t get to them 😉
No kidding. The old one stopped working about 2 weeks ago. It’s been complete drudgery.
I’m going to pretend to be just as excited about that as the draft for the next 10 seconds
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..a dishwasher……weeeeeeee
With Shaquem we could go so hybrid on D that teams would have no idea what the hell we’re doing
Chark attack in Jville
Do it Fins get Shaquem Griffin…He could be our next Pro Bowl Linebacker… The kid plays with such passion, and he never leaves the complex… He will be a beast in the NFL!
Let’s go and get a DT now.👍
GO PHINS…………..FUCK YEAH!
Did you end your boycott?
no way dolphins would draft a guy named Chark lol
Good defensive players on the board
Hurst, Phillips, Nandi, Lorenzo carter
Carter. That would be a good pick
Also some RBs
Freeman, Scabrough and Kelly
Just saying…
Jax is quietly having a very good draft.
They really needed another WR and that guy is lightning fast.
The fastest
They have built a really good team. Doormats no more.
Need a QB. Borttles is holding them back
hey everybody……..still alive here………had a stroke oct 27……..recovering and very excited for the upcoming season.
Good to see you back
Good to see your still alive!
Feel better Top – enjoy the upcoming season
Damn dude. Sorry to hear that. Hope you are recovering well all the best to you
Tough man. Hope you are doing well. A few health problems on the board as well, guess it comes with all of getting older. Stick around though bud.
Marines don’t have strokes
It is good to see you back
Geez. Hope that you are feeling better!
Sorry to hear that. Glad to see you back. Dealing with some health issues myself
You have to stay away from that political BS!
Hate to hear it!
But glad your OK!
Whoa!!! Glad you’re here and back on the mend, man.
Wow Top. Glad to see you’re back and seemingly doing well.
damn Top glad to see you recovering.
The draft picks we have gotten should keep you calm so far.
yeah the Milwaukee V.A. saved my life…….so if you’re pissed, blame them, lol.
Wtf they didn’t let you post while you were there?
No sir thankful for them
Good to see you
Where is Lou did he decide to call us all douchebags again?
He’s on twitter
He loves the draft so far
He’s happy about my dishwasher too. 😂
He’s on twitter. He just replied to me on there. Did something happen again? You guys are worse than a bunch of middle school girls with getting mad at each other.
They just made pick #63…some of you draft gurus must have a best available board going now.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/draft/bestavailable
see three DTs on that list
What I love about this draft is staying put and getting great value. Fitz was a top 10 talent in most mocks whatever and Gesicki was late 1st/2nd all along. We’ve done well with value.
Stupid NFL . com lists Lamar Jackson as still available.
Herd don’t lie, you are really just excited by the extended spin cycle mode
Maurice Hurst still there
so are lots of people lol
Oakland traded into the pick?
We can go in so many directions in the 3rd. Follow the board.
We can go pick up the phone and tell Falk to not answer the phone until we call him back tonight, that’s what we can do
LOL, I’m all for that. I like a QB here.
Brandon Who? zzzzzzz
He was a pretty vsilid OT prospect out if a small school. There is a little risk with him but he has all the physical checklist things checked off
lots of DT available coming up