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This is my take on the 2000-2009 All decade team for us.

QB- Jay Fiedler- 66 Passing TDs 63 INTS 11,040 Yds 834 Rush Yds 11 Rush TDs 36-23 Starting Record as QB as well as a playoff win.

RB- Ricky Williams- 1338 Att 5732 Yds 46 TD's 175 Rec 1286 Yds 5 TDs
1 Pro Bowl and 1 1st Team All Pro

FB- Lousaka Polite- 58 Att 202 Yds 17 Rec 75 Yds

WR- Chris Chambers- 100 games and 90 started 405 Rec 5688 Yds 43 TD's
1 Pro Bowl

WR- Marty Booker- 194 Rec 2627 Yds 11 TD's

TE- Randy McMichael- 283 Rec 3096 Yds 18 TD's

T- Jake Long- 2 Pro Bowls

T- Vernon Carey- 79 Games played

G- Rex Hadnot- 62 Games played and 55 Started

G- Todd Perry- Played and Started all 47 games in Dolphins Tenure

C- Tim Ruddy- 61 Games Played and Started and 1 Pro Bowl

DE- Jason Taylor- 141 Games Played 107.5 Sacks 7 INTS 23 FR 8 TD's
6 Pro Bowls 3 1st Team All Pro 1 DPOY

DE- Adewale Ogunleye- 39 Games Played 25 Sacks 5 FF 1 Pro Bowl

DT- Tim Bowens- 61 Games Played and Started 7.5 Sacks 1 INT 1 Pro Bowl

DT- Vonnie Holliday- 60 Games Played 17.5 Sacks

OLB- Joey Porter- 43 Games 31 Sacks 2 INTS 6 FF 1 Pro Bowl

OLB- Channing Crowder- 70 Games Played 2.5 Sacks 1 INT 432 Tkls

MLB- Zach Thomas- 105 Games Played and Started 14.5 Sacks 9 INTS 1 TD 1087 Tkls 6 Pro Bowls 3 1st Team All Pro

CB- Sam Madison- 92 Games Played and Started 15 INTS 2 TDs 7 FF
3 Pro Bowls 1 1st Team All Pro

CB- Patrick Surtain- 76 Games Played and Started 4.5 Sacks 24 INTS 2 TDs 4 FF 3 Pro Bowls 1 1st Team All Pro

S- Brock Marion- 63 Games Played and Started 18 INTS 2 TDs 3 Pro Bowls

S- Yeremiah Bell- 77 Games Played 7.5 Sacks 3 INTS 7 FF

K- Olindo Mare- 156 FGs Made

P- Matt Turk- 61 Games Played 41.0 Avg

LS- John Denney- 5 seasons as LS

RET- Ted Ginn Jr.- 3 Ret TDs



As you could See this decade our offense was pathetic. Jay Fiedler had by far the longest tenure and most sucessful win/loss record as our starting QB.

Ricky Williams beat out Ronnie Brown because he had better stats for this decade as well as being more dominant during their best seasons.

Lousaka Polite beats out Rob Konrad because of his run blocking prowess. He's also been a short yardage machine.

Our WR's this decade have been AWFUL. Chris Chambers was easy but our number 2 WR was between Booker, Gadsden, Camarillo, Ginn and Bess. Booker had the best stats among these players.

TE was easy. McMichael although never great had a decent tenure with us and easily beat out a weak crop of contenders at this position.

At Tackle, I put our two current starting Players. Vernon Carey has played well here the last 6 years while Jake Long has already made 2 Pro Bowls this decade.

Guard was tough. Todd Perry was a decent guard during our best running years so he makes it and Hadnot was another average player that started along our offensive line for a period of time. A very weak group this decade.

At Center Tim Ruddy makes it. I forgot that he made a pro bowl this decade and you can see that our Line really started going downhill when he left. Since he left this has been a major problem since the only other serious contender this decade was Jake Grove and his 1 season.

On defense I wrote it up as a 4-3 but you can adjust it to a 3-4 if you want. Just move Bowens to NT, Taylor to OLB and Crowder to ILB. This group was A LOT easier to do than the offense but still had some weak spots.

DE's are Jason Taylor and Ogunleye. Trace Armstrong only played 1 year here this decade and although it was great, Ogunleye also had a pro bowl season. Kevin Carter only played 2 years here and never had the impact that Wale had.

At DT I kind of cheated and put Holliday here. He has rotated between a 3-4 DE and 4-3 DT so I put him at this position. He had a solid tenure year and Jason Ferguson was his only real competition. Bowens was an easy choice.

OLBs are Crowder and Porter. This has been a really weak spot this decade. Seau played here for 3 years but was never an impact plus two years were cut short because of injuries. Than you have Derrick Rodgers and Morlon Greenwood as the next batch of players. Porter was by far the most dominant this decade and his two other seasons were still superior than anything these guys did. Crowder's whole body of work is a lot better than the other contenders plus his first 3 years at OLB were better than anybody else's.

ILB Zach Thomas nuff said

CB another easy position. The best CB duo of the decade

At Safety Marion was an easy choice, he was a pro bowler and a game changer while Bell has been a good player for us for the last 6 years.

Specialists were all a given and Ginn Jr. makes it as a RET for his 3 return TD's this decade.

Thoughts???
 
I would put pennington in over Fiedler too. Also, while I wouldn't jump to include him over penny, Chambers had his best season with Frerrote at QB.
 
Strange said:
I would put pennington in over Fiedler too. Also, while I wouldn't jump to include him over penny, Chambers had his best season with Frerrote at QB.
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I agree. You could make an arguement for Frerotte as well. That being said, it just shows how bad the QB situation was before Penny/Henne came on the scene.
 
It has to be Fiedler. After all, he played here so much longer than anyone else and won a playoff game (yes, hounds, I know it wasn't all him.)

I might change the return man to Welker, and maybe honor Ed Perry as the long snapper for old times sake, but this is just about perfect.

Who would be the slot receiver, though? Oronde Gadsden?
 
Pennington had the best individual season by far, but fiedler was here so much longer and therby accomplished a lot more. If it was just for one season than yeah it would be Pennington, but it's who did more these last 10.

Ginn was in there as a returner because he has the most return Touchdowns this decade for us, simple as that.

Gadsden would be the 3rd WR. Really pathetic on our WR's this decade. If you look at Gadsden's stats starting in 2000, he had two decent years and nothing else but still was our 3rd best WR this decade.

Ed Perry was the LS for 4 years this decade, Denney for 5. Thats why I put in Denney.
 
I would put Mark Dixon at guard. He didnt have the longevity but thats only because stupid Wanny didnt have a Left Tackle so he put Dixon there.
 
Kdawg954 said:
LouSaka over Konrad?
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If you look at the stats, Lousaka has more rushing yards than Konrad did this decade while Konrad was a lot better of a reciever. I think the difference was Lousaka's run blocking ability to me. I think Lousaka played at a pro bowl level this year while Konrad was never really more than average for a couple of years. This one is a toss up though, can't really argue either way.

The problem with Welker over Ginn at the returner spot was the TD's. Ginn has 3 plus he's had 2 or 3 more called back. I think Ginn is overrated as a returner but the TD's still make a difference.
 
Nice effort. That's a lot of work and I didn't disagree with as many selections as I expected.

Bottom line: That's a horrible team. No wonder we didn't win anything of consequence. An all star team should jump off the page position by position. That one produced yucks from me.

As someone else posted, I'd find a place for Mark Dixon. Very good player, one of the most under appreciated in team history. I'd bump Hadnot, who never impressed me.
 
Damn, our all decade team is pretty sucky. I guess that's why we haven't won a playoff game in it.

If you looked at the Pats all decade team they probably could muster a pro bowler for almost every position. Sad really.
 
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