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http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/02/2725083/miami-dolphins-offensive-line.html

The club’s first pick under the guidance of Bill Parcells and Jeff Ireland was left tackle Jake Long at No. 1 overall in 2008 and not quarterback Matt Ryan 1 overall pick in 2008. And as if to make sure everyone understood that was part of a grand plan, guard Justin Smiley was the group’s first unrestricted free agent signing.


In the ensuing years, Miami drafted five offensive linemen, including two first-rounders, signed five unrestricted free agents including high-priced deals for Smiley and Jake Grove, re-signed Vernon Carey to the biggest contract ever given a right tackle at the time, and made 42 other moves adding undrafted or street free agent offensive linemen to the locker room.


That’s a grand total of 53 moves, adding 50 offensive linemen from 2008 through 2011. This year, the team already has added veteran Artis Hicks in free agency, bringing the total number of linemen signed or drafted since 2008 to 51.
And out of that number, the Dolphins have three starters.

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That is a lot, but I would want to see other teams as well before casting judgement.
 
Dam, just because your 325lbs will not make you a good lineman........come on Miami. stop picking up crap.
But on the other hand DeCastro if a ****ing beast, pick him up at #8............:up:
 
Hayden Fox said:
That is a lot, but I would want to see other teams as well before casting judgement.
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Other teams have this problem as well....just not like we did. Many, many, coaches have a preference for a single position and will "tweak" it yearly.

Josh McDaniels, when with Broncos, had something like 5 different quarterbacks in 2 offseasons. Rex Ryan and Bill Belicheat try to upgrade the corner position yearly. Giants, Steelers, and Ravens will draft passrushers on a yearly basis(not a bad plan to have in my opinion).

Personally, i dont have to much of a problem with a coach diving into their favorite position, so long as the holes get covered and it doesnt kill the salary cap. The problem for us is: the holes didnt get fixed and for whatever reason we have no cap space(have no idea if this is why we have no cap, but there should be no reason why the Jets have more space than we do).
 
My problem with this is we re-signed Murtha to a 1.9 Million 1 year deal who we picked up off the Lions PS and he played one pre-season with this team. How does PS with the Lions and 1 pre-season with the Phins warrant that kind of money?
 
50 different o-line players between 2008 and 2011? That sounds kind of weird to me. 12 completely different OL-men each year for four years for a grand total of 5 starting positions.

That's a head scratcher.
 
Hopefully this O-line guru HC is a better guru than our last O-line guru HC.
 
pacresjt said:
My problem with this is we re-signed Murtha to a 1.9 Million 1 year deal who we picked up off the Lions PS and he played one pre-season with this team. How does PS with the Lions and 1 pre-season with the Phins warrant that kind of money?
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On top of that we decided to pay Hicks $2,450,000 between salary and signing bonus
while the Pats signed Brian Waters last season for $3,500,000 million between salary and signing bonus.

Waters made the pro bowl and Hicks will not
 
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