Cast your vote: All-time Dolphins team
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KingCrowder
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The Fullback And DE sections are kind of a landslide
Kendra_Chelsea
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Add center, quarterback, punter and special teams to the landslide catagory. I like it, people have neither forgotton the old school players nor are they biased for them.
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Nick Buoniconti and Bob Brudzinski I would have thought would have been more popular. But I am an oldtimer and an outsider.
I liked Paul Warfield as a player but much of his career was not with the Dolphins so I understand that vote.
Overall though the results seem reasonable.
I liked Paul Warfield as a player but much of his career was not with the Dolphins so I understand that vote.
Overall though the results seem reasonable.
Kendra_Chelsea
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I understand Thomas over Buoniconti- Zack was too good for too long on this team and I still remember watching Buoniconti
However- Cox was not here long enough to be best at anything. Both Brudzinski and Matheson should be ahead of him.
Baumhower was a dominate force in the middle like no other. Roby was better at actually booming punts, but Seiple added a whole new dimension to the position...you had to respect his ability to improvise. I'm kind of surprised at the dearth of outside LB talent the 'Phins have had. Probably our 3 best LBs have been inside...Buoniconti, Zack and Offerdahl.
Rhodes was an ILB not an OLB so they're wrong there...the OLB at that time was Larry Gordon and when he died it was Charles Bowser....I voted for Surtain over Madison.....how can anyone NOT vote for Marino?
Ozzy rules!!
Ozzy rules!!
Looking at the ILB's.
Nick Buoniconti, 1969-76 (617 responses)
16.5%
A.J. Duhe, 1977-84 (189 responses)
5.0%
John Offerdahl, 1986-93 (268 responses)
7.1%
Zach Thomas, 1996-present (2676 responses)
71.4%
All 4 of those guys IMO are better than all the OLB's on the list, shame we can only vote for 1. I voted for Offerdahl because he was my fave defensive player in the late 80's. Zach is next for me.
Nick Buoniconti, 1969-76 (617 responses)
16.5%
A.J. Duhe, 1977-84 (189 responses)
5.0%
John Offerdahl, 1986-93 (268 responses)
7.1%
Zach Thomas, 1996-present (2676 responses)
71.4%
All 4 of those guys IMO are better than all the OLB's on the list, shame we can only vote for 1. I voted for Offerdahl because he was my fave defensive player in the late 80's. Zach is next for me.
Its kind of strange actually, Bill Stanfill was a great DE, much greater than Vern Den Herder.
Tim Ruddy shouldn't even be close to Jim Langer in votes, Langer, while not as great as Stephenson....was a HALL OF FAMER.
I did find that many great players from the very best Dolphin teams seem to be forgotten, its not surprising to me as it tends to be younger fans that respond to such things on the internet, they have not seen them play.
So I guess I don't agree with you, the middle linebacker spot is tough, but again, Nick Buonticonti is a hall of famer, being that Zach's place in the hall is very much in doubt, that vote count is strange.
I don't know, guys like Mike Kolen, Bob Baumhower, Bill Stanfill and even Jim Langer seem to be forgotten.
Because, while not the pure passer Marino was, Bob Griese was more intelligent and a better field general than Marino.
Griese showed up for big games and played very well, I think he completed every pass he threw in Superbowl 8, if not he might have had one incompletion.
Griese called all his own plays, and was a master at reading defenses.
I lived thru both eras, I loved Marino as much as anyone, I'm not suggesting Griese should be considered a greater QB overall than Marino, but I do get a little miffed when he gets so slighted by so many Dolphin fans. He really doesn't get the love he deserves from Dolphin nation, not for a man who accomplished so much.........................................
Runner-up for the Heisman trophy
College football hall of fame
Pro Football hall of fame
8- time Pro Bowler
2- time All-Pro
1977 Maxwell Club-Bert Bell award as the NFL's player of the year
Won 3 AFC Titles
Played in 3 Consecutive Superbowls
Won 2 Superbowls
Lets give the man a little love.
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He also had a great running game and awsome D, at the same time. Marino never had that. How many passes did he throw in the super bowl?
He was an all-star even when he didn't have the best defense and running game.
It doesn't matter how many passes he threw, he completed nearly all of them.
I didn't post this to put Marino down, but really, Bob Griese is the only Dolphin QB to win Superbowls and IS a hall of famer, and he gets very little love around here.
Bob Griese was not about gaudy statistics, he was a field general who did whatever he had to do to win, calling his own plays, he didn't care if calling running plays was the key to winning a game versus him getting to throw.
And, I do remember a thanksgiving day in 1977, when he threw for 503 yards and 6 touchdown passes.
Most of the kids never saw Buonticonti play in his prime, they've had 10 years of Zach in recent memory.
While I understand the Clayton vote with the younger crowd, Warfield was the single greatest wide receiver to ever don a Dolphin uniform, and despite his only playing five seasons here, those seasons were the greatest era in Dolphin football, and his mere presence on this team was a large part of it.
Dwight Stephenson didn't play here much longer himself, so I don't buy into the people that try to act like Warfield shouldn't be remembered as a Dolphin, he won championships as a Dolphin, what did he win as a Brown?....nothing.
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Was Baumhower really that good? I like guys like Baumhower, Betters and Brudzinsky, but the defenses they played in from 84 on really sucked... and they're partly to blame for it.