MarshallFin1
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philbin is alot brigher than sparano, thats for sure.
Did Miami Dolphins coach Joe Philbin reveal his draft strategy?
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You take BPA or you wind up with Jamar Fletcher, Eddie Moore, Jason Allen and Ted Ginn's family while I scream at the TV as we pass on Drew Brees, Anquan Boldin, Antonio Cromartie and Patrick Willis.
I guess we'll see......fact is we have not drafted well in a long time or smart for that matter. Maybe this is the year we actually have a good draft. One thing's for sure, we're not drafting a center top 15 this year. Of course, knowing these guys they might take a guard at 8....lol
Ozzy rules!!
Ozzy rules!!
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You become a contender by taking BPA year after year, pick after pick.
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You say that like we have no chance of drafting first overall next year...alot of the bad teams have gotten better, and we got worse.
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I will say it...........we have no chance of drafting first over all next season. We may be average to below average at this point, but we are not the bottom of the barrel.
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You never pass on talent to take need. Never. The only time talent hurts a team is when it doesn't have it. If you have three or four guys all ranked the same, then need comes into play, but you don't reach for a project and pass on the 99% sure thing, especially in the first round.
Every time one of those GEICO commercials with Brian Orapko comes on, I get po'd all over again. The Bills passed on Orapko in 2009 to take f#$%%^ Aaron Maybin at #11 because they needed a DE more than a LB. They also passed on OT Michael Oher. Guess what? In 2012, the Bills finally got their DE when they spent $100 million on Mario Williams, but they're still looking for a stud LB and even a decent OT! That's what drafting for need over talent gets you ... continually misses in the draft and a big time talent drain!
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That's not quite accurate. I live in the Baltimore area and their sport radio shows constantly repeat that there is no intrigue with their draft........because they always go with the Best Player Available no matter what they need. This is not a recent phenomenon with them either. Just the way Ozzy does it, matters not if their considered a contender or not. I hope we do take this approach for once. Who knows, we might just end up with a Hurricane or two.
Peace...................
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they do that for a reason, it has a bigger impact on your team than taking less skilled players based on needs. After luck and Rg3, there really a qb out there u can say has potential to be an Elite qb in the nfl, sure maybe u can hidden gem in the draft somewhere but the chances are slim to none. Our best bet at finding a potential franchise qb was matt flynn and we got cheap and striked out. Thats why the ravens compete year in and year out, they have Elite talent on both sides of the field as where miami has very little talent u can actually call elite on this team. Apart from marshall and bush, we really dont have anything else, vontae has potential to get up there but i think coaching has hurt vontaes efforts so far. Hes got the talent but i think a better coach like philbin will bring the best out in vontae.
I think stephen ross wants to sell some tickets also, taking BPA helps out in that in some aspect.
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We are definite contenders for bottom of the barrel. We got weaker while implementing a new offense and changes in defense. As of now, we are not average.
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QFT. This is the philosophy that Buddy Nix has brought to Buffalo from San Diego, too, and his two drafts have gotten the Bills more NFL quality talent than his predecessors did in 4 drafting by need.
Keep in mind, too, that once past the top 5-6 guys in this draft, there's a large group of about 8-10 guys who are probably pretty even as far as being prospects. Who's actually going to be BPA is going to depend upon how the teams see these guys fitting in with their offensive or defensive systems.
The one guy in this second group who is probably a significantly better prospect than all the others is OG Dave DeCastro. He's the kind of prospect who comes along maybe once a decade with Pro Bowl potential all over him. His "short-coming" is that guards aren't valued very high in the draft so they go lower than their talent, but for a team that needs help at OG, he's the dream BPA. If Miami doesn't take him, I sure hope Nix runs up to the podium to nab him at #10.
DeCastro plays RG, which would be a major boost for any team's running game since most teams tend to run right.
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Here we go another year of someone referencing poker or smokescreens on Finheaven. If the past decade and a half was a game of poker then we're bankrupt and should stop ****ing around. Take best player available and that's that.
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Just give me Luke or Blackmon.
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This doesn't tell us anything. We still don't know what their draft board looks like, so the BPA available for them could be different than what we deem to be the BPA at 8. I wonder how high they have Michael Floyd and Quinton Coples on their board. Higher than Tannehill? If they have Floyd and Coples, or even Justin Blackmon a spot or two above Tannehill on their board? And if that's the case, do they pull the trigger on one of those guys over a POTENTIAL franchise QB? And would you guys condone this? I think that strategy is silly when it comes to landing a potential franchise QB.
I'm under the line of thinking that unless you have a franchise QB, you take him if the guy has the POTENTIAL to be that guy. If you don't have a Quarterback, you have nothing in this league. If Tannehill is there at 8, he SHOULD be the pick, no doubt about it. The only guys I would even consider taking over Tanny at 8 would be the obvious 4, Luck, RG3, Kalil and Claiborne, even though I'd probably still take him over MC.
Tannehill is the only player in the Top 10 where the BPA strategy DOES NOT APPLY. He is NOT a top 10 player at the moment, but the talent is definitely there. Franchise QB trumps BPA every single time. That being said, we NEED to come away with a TOP TEN player OR Ryan Tannehill at #8, it's just that simple. No Luke Kuechly. No Riley Reiff. No David DeCastro. No Coby Fleener. Those guys are very good players, no doubt about it, but they are NOT TOP TEN players or POTENTIAL FRANCHISE QUARTERBACKS, which is what you HAVE to come away with in the Top 10. THAT is your draft strategy right there. That is all.
I'm under the line of thinking that unless you have a franchise QB, you take him if the guy has the POTENTIAL to be that guy. If you don't have a Quarterback, you have nothing in this league. If Tannehill is there at 8, he SHOULD be the pick, no doubt about it. The only guys I would even consider taking over Tanny at 8 would be the obvious 4, Luck, RG3, Kalil and Claiborne, even though I'd probably still take him over MC.
Tannehill is the only player in the Top 10 where the BPA strategy DOES NOT APPLY. He is NOT a top 10 player at the moment, but the talent is definitely there. Franchise QB trumps BPA every single time. That being said, we NEED to come away with a TOP TEN player OR Ryan Tannehill at #8, it's just that simple. No Luke Kuechly. No Riley Reiff. No David DeCastro. No Coby Fleener. Those guys are very good players, no doubt about it, but they are NOT TOP TEN players or POTENTIAL FRANCHISE QUARTERBACKS, which is what you HAVE to come away with in the Top 10. THAT is your draft strategy right there. That is all.