I'm hoping that this is just more of the same campaign they've been running for months, which is to have Ryan Mallett in for all these interviews and discussions, workouts, etc...and then turn right around and put word out there that Ryan Mallett is not actually their guy. They've been doing that since the Combine, when they met Mallett and turned right around and told a lOcal journalist that they thought he was a douche or some such. But then they decided to work him out privately in Fayetteville along with D.J. Williams, and of course they turned right around AGAIN and had people tell Jason La Canfora and another local (this time a different local from the last lOcal) that they still don't like Mallett at all, that their real target is D.J. Williams, and in fact they went so far as to say that the only reason Mallett was even invited was so that D.J. would have someone to throw to him. Now, despite that, they had Mallett fly down to Miami for a two-day private visit to the facilities (too bad I didn't see him, I was there during one of the days). And, like clockwork, there's fresh word that Mallett is not the target, that it's Kaepernick.
I'm HOPING that this is what's going on...that they're doing their best to get comfortable with and develop a consensus on a guy that comes with some problems, while at the same time trying to smokescreen it so that people in the league aren't sure what they're doing yet.
This is definitely a guy that comes with problems. Any quarterback that admits he's experimented with drugs in college carries some baggage with him. Not only that, but there's a dynamic to be considered between Ryan Mallett and Chad Henne. Maybe they got along, maybe they didn't. You have to be sold and that means some people in the building having to work to sell other peoplei n the building on the idea...because EVERYONE has to be on board when you take a quarterback. There can be no voices of dissent. That would, to me, explain why so many meetings...especially hearing that Tony Sparano was the guy that had Mallett cornered during that four-man lunch date between Jeff Ireland, D.J. Williams, Tony Sparano and Ryan Mallett. Now, to have him in the building, probably meeting with Stephen Ross...it speaks to me of some consensus building efforts.
Where you'd really have to start being skeptical of the whole thing is if the Dolphins were not putting out any word privately except being in love with Mallett.
