Some may think our LBs suck. Some others may consider the first group to be dummies. Who cares?
We KNOW that CROWDER can play well. He's just not the dominant ILB. So, I wish some of his brainless bashers would put a sock in it. B SCOTT for the RAVRENS wasn't the dominant ILB there: it was R LEWIS. And on PARCELLS' Champion NY GIANTS team, G REASONS wasn't the dominant ILB: it was "PEPPER" JOHNSON. The problem here in MIAMI is that for as long as MIAMI has played a 3-4, it HASN'T HAD A DOMINANT ILB. YOU NEED BOTH. And when you HAVE both, they bolster each other's play, and you see an exponential improvement: NEITHER, w/an AYODELE, would be as good.
3-4s also require a dominant NT, too, and MIAMI doesn't have one of them, either. Nor a playmaking FS.
MIAMI is now just a NT, FS, and a little depth away from having all the pieces for a solid 3-4, and a DC who knows how to run one. This would be a "first" for MIAMI.
OLB doesn't worry me nearly as much as the NT/FS "corridor". WAKE did well; ANDERSON did well; and MOSES also did well--that move he put on a starting NFL LT to sack Big BEN in the STEELERS game was awesome. He may be ready to emerge.
I see an OLB in Round 2. I also think MIAMI will trade down in the 1st to get another 2d Round pick. Then, MIAMI picks one of CODY/WILLIAMS in the 1st Round, and a FS, TE and ILB in Rounds 2 through 4...unless MIAMI gets a FS or ILB in F/A. With the rest of its picks, including whatever it gets for SMILEY, MIAMI drafts another NT (PARCELLS' yearly "flyer" or "project") and one OLman...thereafter, whatever.
Oh, and I WOULD re-sign JT, and put him back at weakside OLB where he belongs. His play at SOLB wasn't bad either: it would've worked out as planned if he was sharing time w/the cok$uker formerly known as ROTH. Oh,well...GOOD RIDDANCE to ROTH, and to PORTER, too!
Go, FINS!!!