Mello Yello
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...it’s brilliant having Tyreek Hill on the team.
Getting your inheritance might also be sweet but then again it probably means your parents are dead.
So it probably depends on how you look at it.
Saying the offense is entirely reliant on him...
I didn't say the Dolphins offense was entirely reliant on him.
I said, 'I didn't love the idea of an offense being reliant on him.'
And the emphasis there was on the "him" be a WR and not a QB. Miami is absolutely reliant on Hill as he's their primary target on most plays and is far and away the most productive offensive weapon.
In football, the only guy I'm okay relying on to a ridiculous degree is the QB because the game itself revolves around that position. I would guess most people probably feel somewhat similar. QBs have long careers and tend to make the others around them better.
A WR can lift the team a bit but the QB is a much bigger factor, theoretically capable of making literally everyone else on offense better and even covering up for the defense and/or coaching at times.
...Waddle (who you seem to have left off your list of draft failures), Mostert, Achane and Tua himself.
Waddle was selected with the #6 overall pick. While I still think JaMarr Chase is the best WR from that class Waddle nonetheless came to Miami and instantly became the best WR on the team (as a rookie).
That proves my point. Our weapons sucked in 2019 and 2020. That's precisely what led to WR being selected with a Top-10 pick in 2021.
Mostert, Achane and Tua do not qualify as receivers. If we're extending the discussion from receiving targets to general weaponry (and therefore including RBs) we could cite guys like Myles Gaskin, Samaje Perine, Matt Breida and Patrick Laird as RBs who generally sucked and necessitated replacements like Mostert and Achane be brought in.
Prior to the injuries that took out our center and starting guards last year the O line was also looking pretty good.
I agree.
Robert Hunt missing time was a surprise and Williams' torn ACL was somewhat random. This is bad luck.
Then again, when you build around veterans who other teams let go, injuries should not come as much of a surprise. The fact that Terron Armstead and Isaiah Wynn got hurt really doesn't shock me, nor does the fact that backups like Eichenberg, Jones and others limited what the team could do.
Not matching Hunt’s contract demands was the right move …
I think 100% of this forum agrees with that.
I think the majority here also believe the Panthers made a mistake.
...and I think we’ll get Lamm, Wynn and maybe even Connor Williams back.
I expect Lamm to be a priority as well. I shudder to think what we would've done without him last year. Armstead is a lock to miss time--and we knew that when we signed him. These are the choices Grier makes. It's not bad. It's just that we put our risks on the OL and that's by design. Maybe you like that. Maybe you don't.
Since we need Wynn and really have no obvious alternative at Guard, I suspect we'll pursue him, too.
The point I would urge you to consider is not that anyone expects Grier to re-sign Wilkins or Hunt. Once a player hits FA they will be too expensive to keep. The job of the GM is to have a solid player available to step in. We really don't. We're praying we can either find someone in FA or re-sign guys we have yet to.
There may be some bad blood between us and CW. Fact is, he wanted a long-term deal and got hurt. He will feel somewhat screwed (if he can return). Maybe he's done. We don't know. I'm not holding out much hope TBH.
Adding the new center from the Titans and hopefully an early round pick gives us a nice combination of continuity and new talent.
I see the new center as a bit of a project. His best stat is that he's gone 2 seasons playing 100% of his team's offensive snaps. That's the kind of reliability we need, even if the player isn't perfect.
May I ask which organizations you believe have done the best job of team building over the past 5 years?
5 years is a long time. By definition, anyone who made it to a Super Bowl in the last 5 years did a great job of team building:
KC
SF
PHI
LAR
CIN
TB
I think we're pretty solid TBH. I'm not saying we're bottom of the league. We're 2nd-tier in my mind but tier-2 is not really competing for the Super Bowl. Miami is definitely not at the level any of those teams were when when peaked.
If you're talking about Super Bowl contenders over the last couple years as being "tier-1" it has to include:
KC
SF
DET
PHI
BAL
All of those teams have either been the best team in the NFL at a given point recently or they were on the doorstep of a Super Bowl appearance.
I'd put us in the bin of "tier-2" teams that haven't quite gotten it all together. I would include Buffalo who's been super talented over the last several years and who has owned the AFC East. We also have to include Dallas whose offense is quite nice. Their roster is pretty darn good.
Then there are the new arrivals who we should be watching. Detroit leads that group but teams like Houston and Green Bay are right behind.
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