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Dolphins meet with Anthony Harrell, Antony Sarao at East-West Shrine Game

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Let the "speed-dating game" begin ! The Miami Dolphins are off and running meeting, dinning and winning potential players and prospect for the upcoming NFL draft.


According to NFL.com's Chase Goodbread, the Dolphins have already met with at least two linebacker prospects, spending time with Florida's Anthony Harrell as well as talking with USC's Anthony Sarao.


Harrell is a 6-foot-1, 238 pound red-shirt senior at Florida, primarily working as a reserve linebacker and special teams player for the team. He was a graduate transfer to Florida this year after playing at Georgia Tech for the first part of his college career. He recorded 57 career tackles with one forced fumbles.

Sarao is 6-feet tall, 230 pounds and is considered a very intelligent player, but is probably a 6th or 7th round draft pick at best at this point. He is a high effort player, but may not have the speed to play at the NFL level.

Neither of these players are going to be be dramatic difference makers day one if Miami drafts or signs them as undrafted free agents. The fact that Miami is at least talking to linebackers already could be a sign that they are going to key in on trying to upgrade the position this offseason, and it could mean they are going to be looking for as many options at adding starters and depth players as possible. Both linebackers played at big schools, have experience on defense and special teams, and can likely be grabbed fairly cheaply as the Draft ends or just after the final picks are made.


http://www.thephinsider.com/2016/1/...hrine-game-prospects-dolphins-anthony-harrell



I doubt if the team are going to spend a high draft pick on a LB, it is something they haven't done since the Misi pick in 2010 and before that almost never. Theyre going to do probably like they did last year and load up of undrafted free agency linebackers and hope for the best. That would be a way to go if only they sign a veteran FA linebacker. If not it will be the same result as last year. Not good, folks!
 
Disagree on what has happened in the past drafts applying to this draft as far as drafting linebackers. If we are going to transition to the 3/4 this year we will be in dire need of 2 inside linebackers and a true nose taclkle none of which we currently have on the roster. That is on top of our guard and defensive back situation. We just created 2 more holes to hope to fill by insisting on moving to the 3/4 this year. If we have the right coaches they should be able to coach both the 4/3 or 3/4 based on personel this year. We would be better served to find a true Mike this year, fix the defensive backfield as much as possbile and correct the OL problems in this years draft and if that can be corrected wait to next years draft to find the nose tackle and other inside and outside linebackers we will need to make the 3/4 work
 
So how serious is this 3-4 switch? Is Suh going to be an end? Both? I could see suh manning the nose position but it would be muchc smarter to get a bigger guy for the middle to not spend 100 million on a double team sponge. I'd rather just get someone like Phillips a bit bigger and let him do it, but they say they want him to lose weight so doubtful he's in their NT plans. Idk what their plan is but it will be telling as to how competent they are. As much as people want to rag on fans knowledge, typically when we have a major concern about the scheme it turns out to be valid. We all had worries about philbin when he started. We were right. We were all right about Sherman and his "go go" crap. We were right about Brandon Marshall AND mike Wallace. Wallace had a so so year and Marshall has proven to be a player we shouldn't have traded. We all called that too. Or at least most of us. I don't feel like I'm lying to myself this time though when I say I have faith in our coach. I always said I did for philbin but it was hard to look past his lack of personality and think he could coach an entire team.
 
phintim said:
Disagree on what has happened in the past drafts applying to this draft as far as drafting linebackers. If we are going to transition to the 3/4 this year we will be in dire need of 2 inside linebackers and a true nose taclkle none of which we currently have on the roster. That is on top of our guard and defensive back situation. We just created 2 more holes to hope to fill by insisting on moving to the 3/4 this year. If we have the right coaches they should be able to coach both the 4/3 or 3/4 based on personel this year. We would be better served to find a true Mike this year, fix the defensive backfield as much as possbile and correct the OL problems in this years draft and if that can be corrected wait to next years draft to find the nose tackle and other inside and outside linebackers we will need to make the 3/4 work
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I know that Vance Joseph has come from a 3/4 system but who said that we are moving to a 3/4 this year? Unless we get a genuine nose tackle, we don't have the personnel.
 
Well who exactly would we have as rush linebackers in the 3-4? We simply don't have the players for a 3-4 right now.
 
Guys, we are not switching to a 3-4 defense. If we were, we would not be looking at a couple of small LBs(230 lbs) instead we would be looking at guys that are at least 245 and above and Suh is not moving to END.

Ozzy rules
 
spiketex said:
I know that Vance Joseph has come from a 3/4 system but who said that we are moving to a 3/4 this year? Unless we get a genuine nose tackle, we don't have the personnel.
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Agreed which is purpose of my post
 
Again people drawing conclusions. We will stay at 4-3 but I wouldn't be surprised with it going hybrid 3-4 to see what works. Like the 5-2 experiment. Game plan
 
I don't see us making the switch to 3-4. Paying Suh what we pay him and making him play out of position would be stupid. I could see us going something like the Ravens did with Suggs a "LB" playing with his hand in the dirt.
 
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