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Winning the AFC East is impossible without a great offensive line. Simple as that.The Dolphins have the nucleus for a very good offensive line. Assuming left tackle Branden Albert returns to form (so far, so good) and stays healthy, and Mike Pouncey can go back to the center spot he has told the team he prefers, the Dolphins have a good start.
Ja'Wuan James can then go back to right tackle and this offseason must work to improve a body that is a little soft, to be frank, so that next year his run blocking can catch up with his solid pass protection.
That's three chips.

Note to Dennis Hickey: The Patriots have Belichick. Buffalo is coming at you with a Saks-type defensive line. The Jets have a front seven from Neiman Marcus.
Stop shopping at Target.
So this offseason I'm looking at pending San Francisco 49ers free agent guard Mike Iupati. Loyal readers of this blog will remember I advocated drafting Iupati in the first round in 2010. The Dolphins instead got Jared Odrick, who is good but never stamped the defense with his game or audacious personality.
Iupati can help stamp the offensive line with a physical, no-nonsense approach that makes total sense. Will he be expensive? Sure, he will. But again, you buy a $500 pair of English or Italian shoes in 2015, you'll still be wearing them in 2020. You buy a cheap Chinese-made pair in 2015, you'll be barefoot in 2016.
The next issue I tackle centers around 2014 third-round draft pick Billy Turner.
Turner played left tackle at It's Very Cold Up There University. He is not an NFL left tackle and plus the Dolphins have one. The Dolphins also didn't draft him to play right tackle because that was the vision for James.
So the vision was to play Turner at guard, preferably left guard.

But this offseason offers a fresh start. Pick a side for Billy Turner and slot him in at guard on that side. No, Dallas Thomas is not better. No, Shelley Smith shouldn't be ahead of him. No, Garner isn't going to be your answer there, either.
Turner is a third-round pick. Count on that pick to pan out. Tell Turner, who is currently unsure what he's going to play, that he is a guard. Let him start getting his mind right to play guard.


Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...ew-head-coach-it-will-have.html#storylink=cpy

But this offseason offers a fresh start. Pick a side for Billy Turner and slot him in at guard on that side. No, Dallas Thomas is not better. No, Shelley Smith shouldn't be ahead of him. No, Garner isn't going to be your answer there, either.
Turner is a third-round pick. Count on that pick to pan out. Tell Turner, who is currently unsure what he's going to play, that he is a guard. Let him start getting his mind right to play guard.

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...ew-head-coach-it-will-have.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...ew-head-coach-it-will-have.html#storylink=cpy
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Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...ls-introduce-rex-ryan-as-their-new-head-coach[/QUOTE]

http://www.chatsports.com/miami-dol...eet-great-force-with-greater-force-0-11007505
 
Damn Danny, another hot ass sig pic chick...very nice.
 
Only problem with that idea is the cost. We already have $20M tied up next year in those 3 players. Se we go out and pay another linemen big money? By comparison NE paid about $13M for their whole starting offensive line last year. Spending $30M of the cap on you offensive line is not commonplace in the NFL. Most of the good teams pay one or 2 players and the rest are young and up and coming players that are on the cheap. We just need to hit on those up and coming players. Hopefully Turner turns into one next year for us.
 
Iupati is a power scheme OG...we need ZBS. Throwing popular names into the mix isn't the solution to fixing the problem.
 
ha ha he champions a power scheme fit guard in free agency...and armando i wouldnt go so far as to say billy turner can't play left tackle either...he's right though we must get more pop on the oline...
 
That's quite possibly the gayest/metrosexual referenced article concerning football I've ever read. The shopping examples are idiotic. Only idiots spend $500 on a ****ing pair of shoes. Being smart is finding value at a thrift shop, not ****ting your money away. All in all, it's as relevant as bringing in Iupati.
 
Mike Iupati and Turner at guard ? Turner should be fine but i'd rather draft another one who's more a fit for our scheme.
I do think it's time to move on from Thomas and Smith.
 
Sons of Shula said:
That's quite possibly the gayest/metrosexual referenced article concerning football I've ever read. The shopping examples are idiotic. Only idiots spend $500 on a ****ing pair of shoes. Being smart is finding value at a thrift shop, not ****ting your money away. All in all, it's as relevant as bringing in Iupati.
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He only made the reference because the GM of the Carolina Panthers said he wouldn't be shopping at the Dollar Store this off season for free agents.
 
datruth55 said:
He only made the reference because the GM of the Carolina Panthers said he wouldn't be shopping at the Dollar Store this off season for free agents.
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Ah, thanks for the heads up. Still a little... :limp:
 
Sons of Shula said:
Ah, thanks for the heads up. Still a little... :limp:
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Yeah some other beat writer asked the Panthers GM if he would be shopping at some expensive store (I seriously can't remember which) and the GM had no clue what the guy was talking about. He asked if that was an expensive store lol. Apparently the metro sexual persona isn't restricted to Armando.
 
Fins1971 said:
Only problem with that idea is the cost. We already have $20M tied up next year in those 3 players. Se we go out and pay another linemen big money? By comparison NE paid about $13M for their whole starting offensive line last year. Spending $30M of the cap on you offensive line is not commonplace in the NFL. Most of the good teams pay one or 2 players and the rest are young and up and coming players that are on the cheap. We just need to hit on those up and coming players. Hopefully Turner turns into one next year for us.
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Here is the problem; we can't get adequate play from the other positions. It’s really frustrating how we still can’t get some competent play out of the other line positions.
 
Albert Romano said:
Here is the problem; we can't get adequate play from the other positions. It’s really frustrating how we still can’t get some competent play out of the other line positions.
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You would think that we could get a decent offensive linemen with a 2nd thru 4th round pick. Other teams do it all the time. But we seem to need 1st rounders at every position on line and then we still aren't that great. Very frustrating.
 
Third Eye said:
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http://www.chatsports.com/miami-dol...eet-great-force-with-greater-force-0-11007505
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how do you have any clue that Billy Turner is any better than Dallas Thomas? I love this conjecture that we slot him in at a guard when you have zero basis for it.[/QUOTE]

True that he might not be better, but he can't really be worse. I agree with the article that we can't rely on the middle rounds of the draft or on the 2nd or 3rd tier of free agency to find a plug in starter. Optimally, you build your line and then draft developmental depth year after year, but we unfortunately still have holes at starter to fill.
 
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