Finsmob Unleashed

What do you know??? Tyreek Hill made the news cycle again, and as per usghe, it’s not for the right reasons. I’m not even going to touch the specifics of the situation he’s in because I have zero f*cks to give about his personal life. What I will say is that he’s often a distraction, and this team needs to be focused on winning this season. I feel like we can do it with or without him, and if we can get an offer for a decent pick in this coming draft, I wouldn’t hesitate to jump on that. Hopefully the league doesn’t get involved in his indiscretion here and punish him with a suspension. It doesn’t seem like it’s worthy of such punishment, but the NFL has much disdain for their players and their league being shed in a poor light. I’d take a 2nd or 3rd pick and just be done with him, Next year we’d be done with his salary cap hits and for this season, maybe it would help the team stay on the straight and narrow and just think about the task at hand, WINNING! We could definitely use more draft capital for this particular draft where it’s not a top heavy draft, but filled with a lot of maybes past maybe a couple of handfuls of players, so having an extra pick gives us more flexibility when it seems like we still have holes to fill.

We’ve debated here for quite some time as to how the team should approach the draft. Those of you who actually read my articles, if there are any, know how I feel. O-line is first and foremost for me. We have to give our offense, and mostly Tua the best opportunity to be an elite offense. We saw how poor it was when we Tua had to throw the ball within a very short 2 second span, and we (our receivers) weren’t getting enough separation. We also how it was practically impossible for our RB’s to run inside of the tackles, everything was rerouted to the outside, but we all know that makes short yardage situations situations nearly impossible under those circumstances. If you can’t get inside running lanes, you don’t convert short yardage situations, and that’s precisely how it went for us all season long. Our starting C Aaron Brewer is great on the move blocking downfield, but short yardage plays require your center to engage and turn defenders or just blow them back with a strong push. He’s not that guy, and nobody who played OG on either side was capable of that as well. That led to constant failure on 3rd or 4th and short. This MUST BE FIXED!

I’m well aware we need CB help too, but not re-signing DT Christian Wilkins has still left a gaping hole on the other side of the nose tackle opposite Zach Sieler. This is a deep draft for that position, but it could be really risky to wait until the 3rd RD or later. There are a few players that might be able to help us if they’re still there, but again, if you have players you want, you may want to pull the trigger in RD 2 and not risk them being gone in RD 3. Then we must turn our eye on CB’s. It’s a shame we’re looking for a starter at DT, because right now I’m not sure we have an outside CB on our roster that can start. Again, I speak from the premise of the belief that our offense has to be near elite for this team to win. I feel like if our offense resembles last year’s offense, where we couldn’t throw downfield, nearly every pass was a 5 yard shot here or there, and a 10 yard pass was a deep one, we’re cooked. We have to be much more like the high flying offense of ’23, when Raheem Mostert scored 18 rushing TD’s. If we have a consistent run game, and we’re getting push up the middle too, this will make defense much more honest, and those safeties that have been playing 10 yards back or more will now have to creep up and help in run support which in turn should help us take some deep shots and get receivers open deep. McDaniel must find a way to counter this issue, but the offensive line humming is an essential need to allow this to occur.

I know I have been a malcontent and have been very negative towards our team and organization. I feel it’s totally warranted though. A great draft might change my mind somewhat, and I hope they can come through with one. We could potentially have an exciting defense with Chop Robinson, Jaelan Phillips, Bradley Chubb and our two ILB’s Jordyn Brooks and Tyrel Dodson. My eyes just keep going back to that huge hole at LDE/DT though, and we have to find a legit starter there. I can see picking up a discarded veteran after the draft and then forming a rotation with the drafted rookie and the vet, but we still have to get a quality player regardless. Yes, I know M is gnashing his teeth about a CB, and he’s not wrong. We do have to find one who can give us quality reps, and I feel like that may end up being a similar situation as LDE/DT, where we draft a CB and he rotates with a vet and some of the guys we already have on the roster. This is where we have put ourselves, but it could work. We most definitely need a lot of luck that a bunch of the aforementioned players have to stay healthy, something that never seems to happen. Maybe we’re due for some luck, it can’t always go the other way, right?

GO DOLPHINS!!!