Don't really agree with the ray lewis thing, can't really predict a player that good, however he would have been a much better choice than harris who likely would have been around in the 2nd and did you say they were gonna give us an extra one and a 3rd/7th? That's what they gave 26 right? And we were 22 so more stuff? Wow this FO, that's just insanity right there to turn that down, i heard grier say he didn't even look at the offers which is even crazier! I would have loved the trade down and taken watt who I liked a lot, prolly my fave lb in the draft, and we desperately needed the extra picks.
People really cling to sheep mindsets, so don't blame them for saying "we have to take de in the first", everybody said it so everybody followed suit, we didn't have to take de in the first at all, it was a terrible idea, as you saw we could have very easily have had willis in the 2nd who is a much better de than harris, and everybody on this board was spamming that pre draft, now all of a sudden they change their tune cuz the fo did something else...bahhh. It was a very deep de class and what do you do in that situation, you draft one later on like willis, perfect example, you don't rush him when he's not gonna get much pt, hurt your signing of branch more and you have needs of a lot of actual starters.
We are not a team that has the luxury of drafting guys we might use sometimes because we are a complete team, we had lots of holes and only some of them got filled because of bad rounds 1 and 3 picks and pure luck so many good players fell to us so late. Asiata would have been gone in late 1 and early 2 in a regular draft, a lot of teams overdrafted qbs, rbs, wrs, which made rounds 2-5 of this draft even better than they already were. This could have been the best dolphins draft ever yet it only ends up as a C because of how bad the dolphins FO is at drafting, if it wasn't for insane luck in both drafts most would be giving both drafts a c or less. Think about it, no tunsil, bad draft, no asiata, bad draft, pure luck both turned out decent, no way either of those players should have been near those spots we got them.
Fans will never stop thinking everything the fo does is peaches and cream despite the last 8 years of the same bs, but they had one winning season, he must be don shula! Superbowl! They never look at what actually happened, they just say YAY we got a de not looking at the picks we gave up to take him or that we didn't need him or that we didn't fill a bunch of extra holes we could have or how much luck we had to even make both of these drafts decent. People are gonna say negativity or troll or other bs just to cover up the facts, its just how it happened, its not positive or negative one way or the other, people can't handle that, they have to have it how they want it in their head, i'll give you guys a hint, that does you no favors.