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the issue is our players we lose are never really evaluated correctly or give the proper chance because of other limitations of the team. I think Tannehill could be very successful next year with another team

Tanny can have a very good year next year, if the team addresses needs, gets some development from young players and can stay away from crippling injuries. It's a lot but here's some thoughts.

1. Aggressively address two of three interior OL positions in the offseason. That means FA $.
2. Hope and pray there is enough on the roster to handle the two tackle positions. Need to give Tunsil more time to develop. RT could be Eric Smith who showed promise before being hurt.
3. Let Landry walk (unless his $ demands drop significantly), ditto James, Julius Thomas, Timmons.
4. Restructure Pouncey and Suh
5. Draft best OLB or OL depending on value in round 1.
6. Draft TE on Day 1.
7. Draft RB on Day 2.
8. Draft Slot WR on Day 2, unless they think Isaiah Ford or Carroo are possibilities.
9. Pray they take on no further aging, reclamation projects of declining players.
10. Pray some more.
 
5th rounder, 4th rounder, UDFA, 5th rounder....you can find all these guys later in the draft. They got a 4th for Ajayi who has knee issues and an attitude problem. You don't pay RBs big money unless they're truly special. They handled those situations right. Each of their backs since the Ajayi trade has had runs of 60+ yards. This line cannot run block consistently and they would have cut Ajayi in the offseason. I have zero concerns about them finding a RB in the draft.

Yep, it tells me that our scouts can find serviceable RBs anywhere in the draft.
 
None of the players listed are game changers or a concern to defenses.

Ajayi needs a wide open running lane to be effective and he's the only one of value.

This is a TIRED conversation at a position that's hardly a problem. Kenyon Drake and Damian Williams aren't the reason this team is in the position it is right now.

Don't stop with this thread though, we need a Wes Welker thread complaining about how we trade our talent to good teams.
 
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Running backs are taught to take what's there, and eventually a lane will open up to explode through for a big gain.

It's not like Ajayi would have done **** here anyway.

Those two sentences were consecutive, and very well demonstrate the desperate rationalization regarding Jay Ajayi.

He needed to patiently wait to explode through a big lane. But it wouldn't have happened anyway.

I love litmus tests. The premier one this season has been Jay Ajayi. Nothing else is remotely close. Anyone who absorbed the coach speak deflection on why Ajayi was a cancer and needed to be gone, flunks the test. And not by razor margin. Emphatically.

Emotional coaches can overreact and make rash decisions with no sense of value every day, if they want to. No kidding in our case it was an offensive player because our young emotional coach pegs himself an offensive mastermind, yet the numbers and points were at bottom of the league.

If we had a young emotional defensive minded head coach and those numbers were straddling the pits of the league, then a linebacker or safety or whatever would have been pinpointed as the culprit, and shipped away. Not exactly complicated.

Elsewhere in this thread I learned that Jay Ajayi needs a wide open running lane to be effective. Gad. He only led the league in yards after contact last season at 3.46 per carry, and forced 11 more missed tackles than any other back in the league.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/ne...-running-back-leaders-in-pffs-signature-stats

Tannehill has been adjusted upwards for 5 years, almost nonstop. We finally find a running back with athletic arrogance and ability to change certain games mostly on his own, and brainstorm to get rid of him based on a few weeks.

I will say that Ajaji looks less explosive as an Eagle than last season during his peak games. Maybe he's lost something and it wasn't evident here due to nowhere to run. I'm willing to keep an eye on that.

It is not the favorite that he quickly declined so much to justify that price tag.
 
QBs cycle through this league as starters at a pretty high rate...RB's would most likely even be higher than that. Doesn't mean they are good or bad, maybe just what the team has from week to week.
 
Ajayi. Did he really want to be here? Was he giving attitude? Why would another player go AWOL before a game? How would Suh's attitude be if he wasn't making a killing? Would anyone put on the happy face for $20M? Can Miami attract the players they really desire. I see lower end younger guys happy to have a team (Miami) and older vets happy to still be playing somewhere (Miami), but not a team of players that believe Miami is the place to be and win. That's a bitch of a spot for Gase or any coach as we have seen. I didn't want to see Ajayi go, but someone felt it was needed in the name of team creation. It's a strong bold move but lacks fire power because there is no answer, just the irradiation and addressing of a problem (one problem).
 
The RBs we let go have proven to be pretty much scrubs (except Darkwa, to this point, and Miller). Miller was money related and did better here than he has in Houston.

The Ajayi trade happened for reasons unknown to this fanbase.

Bad thread, trying to criticise an organization that is open to criticism in so many areas, for something that doesn't warrant it.
 
We will have to use at least the 4th round pick we got for Ajayi in order to get a RB as good as him. This team is stupid is as stupid does

Dude, they had to get rid of him. You need to accept that. He was a problem. He is replaceable. This team has found RBs without much problem. Be grateful they pried a 4th rounder for him.
 
Those two sentences were consecutive, and very well demonstrate the desperate rationalization regarding Jay Ajayi.

He needed to patiently wait to explode through a big lane. But it wouldn't have happened anyway.

I love litmus tests. The premier one this season has been Jay Ajayi. Nothing else is remotely close. Anyone who absorbed the coach speak deflection on why Ajayi was a cancer and needed to be gone, flunks the test. And not by razor margin. Emphatically.

Emotional coaches can overreact and make rash decisions with no sense of value every day, if they want to. No kidding in our case it was an offensive player because our young emotional coach pegs himself an offensive mastermind, yet the numbers and points were at bottom of the league.

If we had a young emotional defensive minded head coach and those numbers were straddling the pits of the league, then a linebacker or safety or whatever would have been pinpointed as the culprit, and shipped away. Not exactly complicated.

Elsewhere in this thread I learned that Jay Ajayi needs a wide open running lane to be effective. Gad. He only led the league in yards after contact last season at 3.46 per carry, and forced 11 more missed tackles than any other back in the league.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/ne...-running-back-leaders-in-pffs-signature-stats

Tannehill has been adjusted upwards for 5 years, almost nonstop. We finally find a running back with athletic arrogance and ability to change certain games mostly on his own, and brainstorm to get rid of him based on a few weeks.

I will say that Ajaji looks less explosive as an Eagle than last season during his peak games. Maybe he's lost something and it wasn't evident here due to nowhere to run. I'm willing to keep an eye on that.

It is not the favorite that he quickly declined so much to justify that price tag.


I think you answered your own rant with those last two lines. You do realize he dropped to the 5th round for a reason right? He has knee issues. He will not last long. The team cut bait before he was of no value. The Eagles paid because they think they can win this year and want depth.
 
The RBs we let go have proven to be pretty much scrubs (except Darkwa, to this point, and Miller). Miller was money related and did better here than he has in Houston.

The Ajayi trade happened for reasons unknown to this fanbase.

Bad thread, trying to criticise an organization that is open to criticism in so many areas, for something that doesn't warrant it.

Amen. People assume what they don't understand to be 'stupid' before thinking, maybe there's stuff they don't know about that the team just isn't going to advertise. Look, if your third year RB cannot diagnose a blitz and pick it up properly, maybe that's a problem. If he's not running the right route by this point in his career maybe that's a problem. If he's whining about carries or usage, that can become a problem. If his knees are shot, etc., etc. The fact people think they just traded a good player out of an emotional response is laughable. A little benefit of the doubt here folks.
 
Not even close
Foster was a 1 year deal compared to the 5 year Miller got and Foster was washed up. Take Millers up frint signIng bonus and devide by 5 years first he was very affordable to resign plus his signing was close to Fosters which proved to be a waste of time and money like many of the veteran deals signing for veterans that have happened under Tbaum. Plus the pick that we used on Drake could have been of much better use on value or the reach at the RB position we used on Drake. Drake was a backup and oft injured at Bama and still is.
 
Other teams have better olines.
Cutting Ajayi was an assinine move.
He was cheap and effective.
 
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