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The Monday after the Super Bowl is the first day NFL teams are able to release players after the season. An NFL source said Sunday the Dolphins will release Porter as early as Monday but certainly before the new league year begins March 5.

Speculation here: The Dolphins typically act quickly and decisively in such matters. They aren't going to keep Porter on the roster if they've already determined they cannot trade him and will not pay him the $1 million roster bonus he is due the first week of March.

The fact Porter has become such a royal pain embarrassment -- sliming the team at every opportunity -- might also play into Miami's timing.

So it would be no surprise for this move to happen sooner rather than later.

Other Dolphins players should also spend the next month or so reading the scroll on the various sports shows and websites to see if their names are featured among Dolphins cuts or not.

Free safety Gibril Wilson is on chopping block. I'm told the Dolphins would consider keeping him if he takes a significant pay cut. But there is no guarantee he'll take a cut because he declined one in Oakland last year. So the Dolphins have a decision to make on this, one of their signature free agent signings of 2009.

Other players that might be on the line unless they take pay cuts include Jason Allen and Reggie Torbor.
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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/2010/02/done-with-the-old-on-to-the-new.html

The first two names do not surprise me one bit, now I would much rather see Torbor stick around instead of Akin. On Jason Allen I agree he needs to take a paycut guy is way over priced to be just a ST player. BTW there were rumors of Allen being cut this year by our Fins
 
Wilson would be nearly best off taking a pay-cut and not trying to test getting a similar contract in free agency to the one he has now.

I personally hope we drop his ***, but if he gets kept around on the condition he must take a pay cut, then you would think he takes a pay cut.
 
Jason Allen doesnt make all that much money and if you remember our horrific ST a few years back you should have no prob with him 1.7 a year. Plus he is certainly improving his coverage.
 
J.Porter
G.Wilson
R.Torbor
A.Ayodele
W.Allen
R.Williams

that's the list I would cut, J.Porter gets replaced by a pick, W.Allen gets replaced by re-signing N.Jones, R.Williams gets replaced by a mid round pick, Ayodele gets replaced by K.Dansby and Torbor gets replaced by a draft pick.
 
3rdandinches said:
J.Porter
G.Wilson
R.Torbor
A.Ayodele
W.Allen
R.Williams

that's the list I would cut, J.Porter gets replaced by a pick, W.Allen gets replaced by re-signing N.Jones, R.Williams gets replaced by a mid round pick, Ayodele gets replaced by K.Dansby and Torbor gets replaced by a draft pick.
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Personally speaking, I would rather we kept Will Allen and let go of Jones.
 
emeraldfin said:
Personally speaking, I would rather we re-signed Will Allen and let go of Jones.
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I agree. He's old and coming off of a knee injury, but the dude is tough and I have a feeling he is going to come back strong.

Porter can peace the **** out, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

I would also like to see Torbor stay, Wilson can have fun sitting on the bench somewhere else if he's to damn stubborn to take a pay cut, wake up, your not that good.

Allen is good at special teams, but they don't get paid that much, I could see him getting cut.

On the flip side, we should see who is getting cut off of other teams soon, *cough* Antrel Rolle *cough*
 
3rdandinches said:
J.Porter
G.Wilson
R.Torbor
A.Ayodele
W.Allen
R.Williams

that's the list I would cut, J.Porter gets replaced by a pick, W.Allen gets replaced by re-signing N.Jones, R.Williams gets replaced by a mid round pick, Ayodele gets replaced by K.Dansby and Torbor gets replaced by a draft pick.
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Replace Ricky??? He was great last year till he had to become the "man". Which we know he can not and does not want to be anymore. He is a great rotation back. I would much rather draft a HB and try and trade Ronnie.
 
kwill29 said:
I agree. He's old and coming off of a knee injury, but the dude is tough and I have a feeling he is going to come back strong.

Porter can peace the **** out, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

I would also like to see Torbor stay, Wilson can have fun sitting on the bench somewhere else if he's to damn stubborn to take a pay cut, wake up, your not that good.

Allen is good at special teams, but they don't get paid that much, I could see him getting cut.

On the flip side, we should see who is getting cut off of other teams soon, *cough* Antrel Rolle *cough*
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We re-signed Allen last year I believe. The problem is that we re-signed him to #1 CB money. I would rather not pay our Nickel CB, #1 CB money.
 
qmar said:
We re-signed Allen last year I believe. The problem is that we re-signed him to #1 CB money. I would rather not pay our Nickel CB, #1 CB money.
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Forgot that. How many more years is he under contract then 1 or 2?
 
Allen's deal is worth $16.2 million over the next three years, with $10 million in guarantees.
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I do see the point that he will be getting a good deal of money, but he was resigned after we selected Smith and Davis, so it would seem that it was the FO's plan to keep those three as the CB's for the next few years. Unless they are worried about the condition of Allens injury, they I cant see him being cut.
 
3 more years. Will Allen was re-signed to a 4 year contract extension.
 
Ricky4Life said:
Replace Ricky??? He was great last year till he had to become the "man". Which we know he can not and does not want to be anymore. He is a great rotation back. I would much rather draft a HB and try and trade Ronnie.
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Are you friggin serious with this BS?? You'd rather keep a guy that ISN'T reliable when you need him most? Wow... just wow. Your username says it all I guess.

We need TWO guys that can shoulder the load. The solution is draft a back AND get rid of Ricky's old, unreliable ***! He doesn't even want to play past 2010! WTF good does he do us in the long run? His ship has sailed. It's time to move on.
 
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