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Rumor: Colin Kaepernick Dolphins top QB, not Mallett

datruth55 said:
I remember it...I was pretty happy we weren't on the phone with Brady Quinn...REALLY HAPPY, until they said Ted Ginn Jr...then I was really mad and started screaming. Revis was my #1 guy and Willis was my #2. We needed corner help and Revis was a darn good kick off return man at Pitt. Would have been a perfect fit. Oh well.

I've already conditioned myself to expect some kind of lineman in the first round after a trade down and some other disappointing pick in the 2nd round. No impact players...that's just how we roll since the Wannstedt days.
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Well said. I need to stop hoping draft day arrives and relish this anticipatory hope that we all still have. The time leading up to the draft has been so much more fun than the actual results in the past 10 years.
 
I really think Miami is thinking about Kap in round 2 of the draft, but I dunno if he is going to be there.

The ideal plan for THEM would be to trade down, pick up a 2nd . . . go with Pouncey/Ingram and then in the mid 50's . . . take Kaepernick, another 2nd rounder pick used on a QB.

Then again, it could be a guy we are completely forgetting about like Locker, who hasn't got much buzz from Miami.

As much as I am content waiting until 2012 for QB, I would be lowball SHOCKED if Miami didn't come away with a QB after 79 picks (whether trade up or use the first rounder or trade down and get one).

So much work into a bunch of smokescreens, if that is the case . . . wish that kind of effort was being displayed in regards to QB development and time management on game day.
 
Would be another colossal waste of a 2nd round pick. Kaepernick is at least 3-4 yrs from starting in this league; this team needs to be in win now mode and either gather the missing components around Henne or get a QB who can potentially start from Day 1 (Ponder or Mallet, preferably Ponder). I'm sick of wasting 2nd round picks on useless QBs Beck, Feeley, White. Kapernick would easily join that list if we take him in the 2nd.
 
I'm thinking that Ireland and Sparano are down to thier last chips in Ross' casino. I hope they let it ride on #15 and go for a 40 to 1 payout as opposed to trying to build up thier chips with safe 2 to 1 payouts and a slow agonizing death for the fans. Go for Mallet with full guns a blazing.
 
Puppy love by some notwithstanding, IMO this is Ireland's preemptive head fake intended to misdirect teams looking to leapfrog over us to snatch Mallett.

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Aqua and Orange said:
That draft was epic. It was truly the day of a thousand stories. It was like the JFK assassination in that most of us remember where we were when it happened.

I was sitting on the couch in my in-laws house, watching on a super small television. The thing I remember most was that sinking feeling in my gut when they cut to Brady Quinn stone-faced and NOT on the phone. As the person strode to the podium, before anything was even read, my mouth was hanging open.
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Was at a sports bar in Pensicola, Florida. Visiting some friends who later worked with various sports teams. To my left was a Broncos fan and my right was a Cardinals fan, with a Bills fan at the other end of the table(mixed in with other teams fans). I spent that entire morning pumped and talking to the others about Leinhart and Cutler and how they secured their own franchise quarterbacks(whoops! in hindsight). I recall the anticipation at 8, i recall raising my fists in the air when we got on the clock. I also recall the stunned disbelief and the sound of roaring laughter after the pick was announced. I do not recall the Texans pick, at all, not even alittle. I must have had my jaw hanging open with my arms still lifted for a good 15 minutes, because what snapped me out of it was the Bills fan screaming "WE GOT BALLS! WE GOT BALLS! MARV LEVY MUST HAVE DIED BECAUSE WE GOT BALLS!" after they drafted Marshawn. After slaming his hands on the table of a random family, he disappeared from site only to return with a shot of jager.

I have to agree with some of the others. This reeks of smokescreen. This close to the draft im trying to take everything with a grain of salt. Any leak from a source is undoubtable cover. That being said, i would not be surprised in the least if this was true. The coaching staff has shown to be unbelievably conservative(to the point of self-destruction: see the '10 season) and it would be just like them to trade back in the first only to burn it on Kaep. If we don't want to take Mallett or Ponder i'll live with it, but dear god we have to stop with the half-measures when it comes to this continued problem. All that we would be doing is wasting more picks on yet another project in an effort to save jobs. Front offices need to realize: the best way to keep your job is to find a franchise quarterback.
 
hooshoops said:
i stopped drinking i was so mad that day...and that never happens...

we take kaep with any pick in the top 3 rounds history will repeat itself for me...
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Usually works the opposite way for me on gameday/the draft...Start out sober and hopeful and taking the event in. End up drunk.
 
Nublar7 said:
He is not the #1 QB in the draft, I agree with you there. Ireland probably has Newton and Gabbert as #1 and #2, but perhaps this is figuring common sense that there is no way they drop to #15. My guess is, if this rumor is true, that he has Kaepernick as the #3 QB ahead of Mallett, but #1 on his board of attainable players. That would not be surprising to me at all because Mallett is no sure fire pick and has plenty of question marks and red flags.

Just because Kaepernick has a similar background, doesn't mean he will translate to the NFL the same. One major difference you fail to mention is that White was 6-0, 190 pounds, while Kaepernick is 6-5, 233 pounds. Part of the reason White failed was because he was just to small.

When I think of Kaepernick, I think more of a Josh Freeman type player, not Pat White.
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Kaepernick and Freeman are NOTHING alike. I don't know how you draw such a comparison.
 
X-Pacolypse said:
Kaepernick and Freeman are NOTHING alike. I don't know how you draw such a comparison.
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They are not identical, but they are both big quarterbacks, athletic and have a strong arm. They both come into the league not like the typical pocket quarterback. Kaepernick is more explosive in the running game than Freeman, but they do have consistency in their game. Kaepernick is much more like Freeman than he is like Pat White. Though he does share similar running ability with Pat.

I have seen a few articles and draft previews that also make the comparison, so I am not alone.
 
Everyone who actually believes the Dolphins FO is going to draft a personality like Mallett, who is the slowest QB since George Blanda in his late forties, is in for rude awakening.

Mallett is the smokescreen. It is glaringly obvious.
 
Nublar7 said:
They are not identical, but they are both big quarterbacks, athletic and have a strong arm. They both come into the league not like the typical pocket quarterback. Kaepernick is more explosive in the running game than Freeman, but they do have consistency in their game. Kaepernick is much more like Freeman than he is like Pat White. Though he does share similar running ability with Pat.

I have seen a few articles and draft previews that also make the comparison, so I am not alone.
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kaepernick is more straight line than freeman...freemans elusive as heck...i don't see the same kinda wiggle with kaep on the move...but i do see some really impressive straight line speed...

even still if anyone thinks kaeps coming into the nfl and playing a solid starting qb from jump they got another thing coming...this kid needs time to develop and familiarize himself with the pro game...time this regime doesn't have

and he also needs clean looks at the target...i don't see a stand in the pocket and despite trash all around delivery guy in kaep
 
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