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Wallace, Hartline, Gibson and Matthews serve as Miami’s primary veteran receivers.
The Dolphins have attempted to trade Wallace, but with his exorbitant $17.5 million cap figure for 2014, it’s impossible to envision a scenario where the ‘Fins get rid of Wallace before the 2014 season. Hartline is a productive receiver who signed a five-year deal in the 2013 offseason. Matthews is a young receiver who has a cap hit of just $583,000 in 2014. Barring a bad training camp, Matthews won’t be going anywhere.
Which leaves the veteran Gibson, who suddenly looks expendable. Gibson has a cap hit of $3.7 million in 2014, with a signing bonus of $1 million. If the Dolphins were to release Gibson with two years left on his contract, it would result in a dead money hit of just $2 million total over the next two seasons. It would save the team $2.7 million and $3.2 million on the cap in 2014 and 2015.
Other veteran receivers such as Armon Binns and Damian Williams will also compete for roster spots when training camp begins. With Wallace, Hartline and Landry having roster spots locked up, that leaves two open receiver spots. The Dolphins won’t keep Gibson around to be a No. 4 or No. 5 receiver. Those spots will be reserved for young guys like Matthews and Hazel who have potential and can contribute on special teams.
Minicamp has yet to begin, and it already looks as if Gibson’s days in South Florida are coming to an end.

Read more at http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2014/...-looks-to-be-odd-man-out/?xOemLPDCQPjucXoF.99
 
When did the Dolphins attempt to trade Wallace?
 
I thought Gibson played well last year. I can understand cutting him if he cant return to form after injury, but cutting a decent WR to save a couple million dollars? I'm not so sure about that. I see Wallace, Hartline, Gibson, Landry as the top 4, with the rest fighting it out for #5.
 
Gibson was our best WR last year and if he is healthy he will be a Miami Dolphin this year PERIOD. How stupid would it be to get rid of our most reliable WR before we even know what we have in Landry. I know many around here already have Landry's bust picked out for Canton but can we at least see him in a few preseason games before we annoint him the next Jerry Rice??

If this team was that concerned with cutting back on salary, Gibson would be one of the LAST places they would look.
 
All over a couple million a year? If hes healthy they better not. He was great for us last year. We wanted great depth and we have it. We have a ton of cap space and we are gonna cut our depth for 2 million? Which we don't even need
 
I don't see Gibson leaving this year...depth if nothing else...last year we felt the injuries at wideout.

I do think Landry will beat him out at slot though.
 
DKphin said:
Wallace, Hartline, Gibson and Matthews serve as Miami’s primary veteran receivers.
The Dolphins have attempted to trade Wallace, but with his exorbitant $17.5 million cap figure for 2014, it’s impossible to envision a scenario where the ‘Fins get rid of Wallace before the 2014 season. Hartline is a productive receiver who signed a five-year deal in the 2013 offseason. Matthews is a young receiver who has a cap hit of just $583,000 in 2014. Barring a bad training camp, Matthews won’t be going anywhere.
Which leaves the veteran Gibson, who suddenly looks expendable. Gibson has a cap hit of $3.7 million in 2014, with a signing bonus of $1 million. If the Dolphins were to release Gibson with two years left on his contract, it would result in a dead money hit of just $2 million total over the next two seasons. It would save the team $2.7 million and $3.2 million on the cap in 2014 and 2015.
Other veteran receivers such as Armon Binns and Damian Williams will also compete for roster spots when training camp begins. With Wallace, Hartline and Landry having roster spots locked up, that leaves two open receiver spots. The Dolphins won’t keep Gibson around to be a No. 4 or No. 5 receiver. Those spots will be reserved for young guys like Matthews and Hazel who have potential and can contribute on special teams.
Minicamp has yet to begin, and it already looks as if Gibson’s days in South Florida are coming to an end.

Read more at http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2014/...-looks-to-be-odd-man-out/?xOemLPDCQPjucXoF.99
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I agree that, only Wallace, Hartline, Landry can probably be penciled in as locks. The rest, including Matthews, are fighting for a spot. Best case scenario for Hazel is he will wind up on the practice squad. The Fins are going into this season with their best 5 receivers. They're not going to weaken their offense in order to save a couple of million dollars. If the coaches think Gibson is our 4th or 5th best receiver when preseason ends, Gibson makes the team. Quality backups are important for good teams.
 
I don't believe this story. Sounds like rampant speculation to me. Odd that this is the first we hear of trying to trade Wallace and that is NOT his lead.

Lets face it, we are striving to be Green Bay South on offense. In Green Bay they draft a WR just about every year and they use them. They go through a lot of WR's up there and tend only to let them go at contract renewal time or when they get old. They keep their productive young WR's under contract.

I will be shocked if we do any differently.

This team fell on its face last year when we lost Gibson. Coupled with the loss of Keller, we lost all of our underneath targets in an offense featuring those exact throws. It was a disaster.

No. We want very much to keep Gibson, keep him healthy, and keep him moving the chains. If I recall correctly just before he was injured he was leading the NFL in catches for 1st downs. That's exactly the move-the-chains type of play the WCO is built around. Without that, a WCO struggles ... and we proved that true too.

What we NEEDED was another underneath WR who was reliable and had great hands. We needed depth. Now we are getting it.

I think Gibson will start and be a cornerstone of clutch play for Tannehill this year. But, even if Landry proves fantastic and wins the starting job, Gibson isn't going anyhere. We are happy with his performance at that salary. What we want is him to stay healthy.

At best this "reporter" is misguided or misinformed. At worst he is from the Omar Kelly school of hacks.

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Gibson was our best WR last year and if he is healthy he will be a Miami Dolphin this year PERIOD. How stupid would it be to get rid of our most reliable WR before we even know what we have in Landry. I know many around here already have Landry's bust picked out for Canton but can we at least see him in a few preseason games before we annoint him the next Jerry Rice??

If this team was that concerned with cutting back on salary, Gibson would be one of the LAST places they would look.
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Well, we know Armando is NOT convinced Landry is a certain shoe-in to even make the team. He has a pretty good blog that puts the Landry pick in analytical draft history perspective.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...e-of-analytics-as-part-of-his-regimen-fo.html

I am hoping, like everyone else, that Landry defies the analytical history of his draft position in a big way. However, I think it's foolish to start planning to dump healthy and effective receivers like Gibson, as the OP's article has done, before we see how things play out in camp.
 
assuming he is healthy I would be happy w/ that, he was really good for you before he got hurt.
 
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