Dolphins 2018 Vs 2019 Post Draft

[circumstances]

The difference, as always, is which young players emerge.

If hardly any very good (or better) youngsters emerge from our current unknowns, we will likely struggle mightily.

If a significant number of unknowns take big steps forward, we could surprise. This is highly unlikely, but possible.

That's what happens when you turn over your roster with youth.

 

[phintim]

Tunsil, Howard and Drake are our Elite players on our current roster with perhaps Fitz thrown in there. Those first 3 have elite talent but have a hard time playing full throttle a entire season. Throw in Flores a rookie head coach it's going to be a very hard time to find wins this season. I'm.
Not really concerned about the winning as much this yearyas I am about determining if we have found the right coach and if Rosen is worth keeping around as a QB.

As another poster mentioned and I agree we need to put the majority of our efforts this season getting the oline right to protect Rosen this year and also whomever the choice is next year.

 

[kangphin]

Top 6 afc teams in net points made the playoffs. In the nfc top 5 and 7th in net points made it. No mystery here of course. The aberration is the dolphins
7-9 record when considering their net of -114 which was third worst in the league.
The roster is weak. We are looking at 2-6 wins depending on injuries. If Tunsil goes down in the preseason, do we even win 2?

 

[Digital]

Hello all.
I've done a quick comparison of position group of 2018 Dolphins vs 2019. Last year we won 7 games when most people projected us to be one of the worst, if not the worst, teams. This year we are also projected similarly. Can the drop in QB and DE pass rush take us from winning 7 games last year to say 3-4 games this year? If not, we would not end up with a top 5 pick in 2020 draft for a top tier QB. Granted no one can project injuries. I don't see a drop off in talent between last year and this year other than at QB, Wake and Quinn. Most of us think the 2019 coaching staff is better than the 2018 staff. May be this is why Grier/Flores got Rosen because there is no guarantee for us getting a top QB in next year's draft unless we trade up.

Position Group 2018 vs 2019
QB Sizable drop unless J. Rosen develops - Agreed
OL Wash with Deitmer & Kilgore back & James leaving - Disagree. Last year this time we had a healthy Kilgore and Josh Sitton, who was a dominant guard. Last year's OL was better, it just didn't stay healthy. This years is better than the crap reserves we played last year though.
RB Wash with presumably Drake taking Gore's carries - Disagree, we're worse off without Gore … but that's just part of the youth movement, gotta accept it.
WR Same group with A. Wilson & Grant returning & Amendola leaving - Agreed. Healthy Wilson and Parker would be an improvement, but chicken counting and all ...
TE Slightly improved with Allen providing better blocking - Disagree. We're going to be much better at TE this year because Gesicki and Smythe are no longer rookies! Adding in Allen and we finally have a good blocking TE.
DE Big drop off in pass rush with Wake & Quinn gone - Agreed … sadly this is like dropping off a cliff.
DT Improved with V. Taylor back & Wilkins - Not sure … love Wilkins and am excited to see Taylor develop, but we're still very thin and awfully inexperienced in our new system.
LB Same group plus some rookies - Disagree. The extra year should help McMillan and Baker, but the question becomes how they adapt to the new far more complex system.
CB Same group plus E. Rowe - Agreed.
SS Same group - Disagree. Minkah Fitzpatrick at FS all year will be an improvement.

Good analysis. I've added my thoughts in Orange after your initial comments inside the quote. All in all, we're definitely a worse team this year. But what undid us last year was, as it almost always has been, injuries. Any team that escapes significant injury will do very well in the NFL … because the overall talent levels just aren't that far apart. But any team playing many reserves is going to perform poorly.

That's one of the reasons I'm so high on Michael Deiter … the ironman from Wisconsin and our new starting LG. He doesn't get injured almost ever.

 

[DolphinVJ]

True but that's not the point - it's Sitton 2018 vs Dieter 2019 and James 2018 vs ? As divisive as James was/is he was a better option last season than ? is now.

Actually, I can't count Josh Sitton last year in winning 7 games because he only played the first game.