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Dolphins Plan for TJ McDonald

I believe he can practice with the team all off-season but cannot come around at all when the season starts until after the 8th game. That's when he will have to stay in shape on his own, come back and be ready to go.

It sort of works out well with our schedule as our 8th game at Baltimore is on a Thursday so he should be able to come back the day after, get a long week to prepare (9 days) for Oakland at Miami.

This assuming that Nate Allen leaves him an opening but Nate will be inspired to play his former team.


I can't think of a better game for him to come back than against the Raiders. We will need him. If you look at last year we really needed a safety in the final 8 games, as the final 2 games we had our #3 safety and guy who wasn't on an opening day roster starting.
 
I was talking about appealing the 8 game suspension. He could possibly get it reduced to 4 or 6 games.
 
I was talking about appealing the 8 game suspension. He could possibly get it reduced to 4 or 6 games.


B/c he already pled to a lesser charge in court and he and his lawyer have already stated that they will not appeal the suspension levied by the NFL.
 
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He will be suspended for the first 8. He is not appealing. It is what it is, and we knew this when we signed him. If he plays like we expect him to play, keeps himself clean off the field, we'll be extremely happy with the player and payment. I'd take McDonald over Jabril Peppers, and they're both SS's that can play hybrid LB roles. If people liked Peppers in the draft, well we just got half a season of a player that I think is at least as good if not better ... for peanuts.
 
I don's see one negative about this signing at all. This is a move the Pats would typically make and be absolutely praised for.
 
Gase is a Chess player, he always plays the long game. He takes the patient approach which pays off later. This guy comes off suspension right at the mid way point of the season. He comes in healthy, in great shape and with fresh legs. Smart people are running our team, it's been a long time coming.
 
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