although I would prefer we trade the top pick, yes.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 26 January 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Quarterbacks often go too high in the draft and this seems like a down year for the position. The best bet would be to trade the picks if you can.
― leavethecapital, Saturday, 26 January 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Yea, I mean, I'm not sure we really got a good idea of Beck last year. A rookie QB with no reliable Tight End to throw to, an inexperienced #1 wide receiver, aging #2 receiver, non-existent #3, depleted running back depth, and an offensive line that is extremely weak on the left side, on a horrible team? C'monnnnnnnn!
Although I think we've finally got something going at center with Satele. If Miami can finally build a solid offensive line through the draft over time...the bad QB curse will end.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 26 January 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i was assuming that whomever put the idea of the 'phins taking ryan with the #1 pick did so as a smoke screen to try to entice atlanta into trading for the top pick.
― chicago kevin, Saturday, 26 January 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I REALLLLLY don't see Miami taking a QB at #1. Parcells built Romo out of an undrafted QB. Unless he sees a real dud in Beck, I think he knows what other holes to fill on the team.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 26 January 2008 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
You have to trade the pick, but I can see Parcells taking Dorsey. he loves guys like that
― Bill Magill, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
you have to TRY to trade the pick but no one wants the #1 pick anymore.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Dallas will take it, I bet. Jones wants McFadden, and he's dumb enough to do it.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 28 January 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
jerry jones, yeah, i was trying to think the other day who might be stupid enough to trade for the first pick besides al davis. jones probably would. i think snyder has been burned enough times that when his football people tell him not to touch the stove he defers to them.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 28 January 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Plus, Snyder doesn't really covet draft picks, he likes to build through ludicrously overpriced free agent signings.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 28 January 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
dude woulda signed Bubby Brister to a 5 year, 70 million dollar contract....
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i look forward to seeing zach thomas playing linebacker for the pats next year.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 15 February 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
and dan morgan!
― cankles, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
the konkussion klub
― cankles, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the pats have the only linebacking corps(e) where zach thomas could be thought of as the young guy.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Pats made an offer!
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Are they going to offer Jack Ham and Carl Banks contracts too?
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 21 February 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
did jack ham or carl banks have career highs in tackles last year? are either of them younger than the pats two current starting inside linebackers?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
did jack ham or carl banks have career highs in tackles last year?
i know zach thomas didnt, cuz nigga spent half the year concussed as all get out~
― cankles, Friday, 22 February 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Get over your dreaming, Zach's a Cowboy!
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AlSq9f3J7EhfAahmfKZ8loRDubYF?slug=ap-cowboys-thomas&prov=ap&type=lgns
For once a Dolphin fan favorite doesn't go to the Patriots, AND goes to the other conference. I'm happy for him though, although I wish his Dolphins career didn't have to end on such a down note. At least he might have one more chance at winning something.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I was kind of looking forward to seeing the Pats sign him. Then they would have had a great linebacking corps-for 1995. Seriously, Bruschi,Vrabel, Seau and the Thomas brothers? Their games would have had to been shown on ESPN Classic.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Better, but still bleh.
Once the running game settles in, we may be able to win a few that we shouldn't have, but God is it disappointing to give up two gimme TDs to Favre without really making him work for them.
― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Friday, 12 September 2008 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
haha this thread has 295 posts
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
blah blah they are on the right track yada yada wake me up when ted ginn breaks out
id like to point out that i've been otm in this thread
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
and not just when i said this
i'm really serious about the dolphins beating the ravens. remember i'm saying this. the ravens are really, really awful. this year, they've beat the jets by 7, the cards by 3, san fran by 2 and st. louis before they were healthy by 19. we really could win the game (it's at home btw).
― J0rdan S., Monday, November 26, 2007 10:54 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark
― its sad he was a ringtone poster (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 September 2008 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
you can't stop Greg Camarillo. you can only hope to contain him
― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Friday, 12 September 2008 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Jay Fiedler drives a Geo Metro
I might have to start hating the Dolphins, now that their staduim is named after a Jimmy Buffett-product.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 9 May 2009 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link
. . . They'll probably play Cheeseburger in Paradise over the speakers before home games.
Ugh.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 9 May 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Sums up my feelings perfectly. Oh, the new Dolphins song:
"'Fins' For The Fish"We drove down on Interstate 95And up on U.S. 1It's game day in Miami townWhere the Dolphins are No. 1We play down by the oceanIn the warm South Florida sunThe tailgate's down so gather roundFor some pre-game LandShark funChorusCan't you feel us circlin' DolphfansCan't you feel us schoolin' around?We got fins to the left, fins to the right,We're at the only game in townOh Oh Oh OhWe got fins to the left, fins to the right,It's the only game in town.From Lauderdale and BocaPalm Beaches and the Florida KeysIt's a game day mass migrationHigh fives fill the breezeKick off time's approachingWe gotta shut off our cell phonesAnd get our arms up in the airWe are entering the "FinZone"Chorus
We drove down on Interstate 95And up on U.S. 1It's game day in Miami townWhere the Dolphins are No. 1We play down by the oceanIn the warm South Florida sunThe tailgate's down so gather roundFor some pre-game LandShark fun
ChorusCan't you feel us circlin' DolphfansCan't you feel us schoolin' around?We got fins to the left, fins to the right,We're at the only game in townOh Oh Oh OhWe got fins to the left, fins to the right,It's the only game in town.
From Lauderdale and BocaPalm Beaches and the Florida KeysIt's a game day mass migrationHigh fives fill the breezeKick off time's approachingWe gotta shut off our cell phonesAnd get our arms up in the airWe are entering the "FinZone"
Chorus
ommfg.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 9 May 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Whew! Only temporary:
As of today the Dolphins no longer play at Dolphin Stadium. Now they (and the Marlins, and UM) play at LandShark Stadium, named after a beer that hardly is the pride of the Anheuser-Busch stable. Don't get used to LandShark, though. The name-change is for the remainder of 2009 only and it'll be back to Dolphin Stadium for the next Super Bowl, unless they pimp the name to a new corporate sponsor by then. How bizarre is that!? A temporary name change. It's part of a major tie-in with Jimmy Buffett and his Margaritaville conglomerate
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 10 May 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Miami's post-Marino QB curse.
Quarterbacks we've passed up in drafts this decade: Aaron Rogers; Matt Ryan; Drew Brees; Tom Brady.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 October 2009 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't take the Brady thing so hard. 30 other teams passed him over too.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 October 2009 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Same thing with Brees. And you know what? If they'd been drafted into the Dolphins organization they wouldn't have grown up to be Tom Brady and Drew Brees.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
^^this
and really, you can blame the brees thing on saban & that management for deciding to sign culpepper instead. rogers is good but the packers wrs are far, far more talented than whatever the dolphins have now. matt ryan is great of course but jake long was a great pick.
remember daniel that when the dolphins drafted ted ginn, there was an insane outcry from people down there about how they passed up on brady quinn. so you know, if they would've went with 'conventional wisdom' they would've been just as screwed as they are now (probably even more so considering that ginn, regardless of how he is perceived in miami, is the team's #1 receiver and a generally good player overall imo [doesn't help that he's a speedy deep threat on a team whose quarterback was incapable of throwing a ball over like 40 yds])
― baby girl lemme snrub up on you (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
you can blame the brees thing on saban
Indeed I do.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 October 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
doesn't help that he's a speedy deep threat on a team whose quarterback was incapable of throwing a ball over like 40 yds
And things just got much better in that regard, amirite?
yeah i think so
― baby girl lemme snrub up on you (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
You're hopeful for Henne?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 October 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yes i think so. i mean, the guy was never next level at michigan but this current staff really likes him & i think they are to be trusted (altho to be fair their track record on player personnel - pennington aside, altho that was luck probably - is kind of up in the air still). he's been off the field enough to step right in and give the phins a chance to win every week i think. plus he's got all the physical stuff right.
― baby girl lemme snrub up on you (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I only saw him a couple of times in college but henne just seemed, I dunno, slow. slow release slow feet etc.
― brownie, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree w/ the slow thing, but I still weirdly liked him in college. I'm w/ j0rdan - I'd wait to make any judgment and let him play a few games...
― iatee, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
The feeling here, when Henne was drafted, is that he was a complete steal. I don't know where he was projected to be drafted, but maybe he fell to us at that draft pick?
Anyway, the jury's out. But I think, at this stage, it's fair to suggest a "Marino Curse" on the Dolphins quarterback position this decade. The lesson: Fans should not be mean to Dan Marino.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 October 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
again and again, history suggests that basically nobody can predict which of these guys is gonna be the steal and which one is gonna be the bust.
too much monday morning quarterbackdrafting - nobodyyyy knows, just let em play and see what hpapens.
― iatee, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly most teams don't get one Dan Marino, let alone wait around for the second coming. afaic it might as well be the Fiedler Curse.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 2 October 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i.e. the curse is having had a Dan Marino and thinking you can dial up another one.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 2 October 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah otm - fiedler was a pretty decent qb tbh. a few teams in the nfl would killl for a competent qb like him who could, uh, "guide" his team to the playoffs a few times.
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
also a jew
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, okay. Fiedler was a decent-to-good quarterback. And a Jew. He made my people proud.
But we've spent a loooooooong time wandering in the desert since then.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 October 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link