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http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2008/10/23/dolphins-plan-if-no-ferguson/

If NT Jason Ferguson cannot play for Miami on Sunday, here’s Tony Sparano’s contingency plan.


“We’ll see what happens,” said Sparano. ”It’ll be Paul (Soliai), it’ll be (Randy) Starks, (Lionel) Dotson. There will be some people moving in and out of there.”


The Dolphins training staff has worked a lot on getting Soliai’s weight down. At 6′4″ 355 he’s dropped some weight already according to Sparano.
“Paul is getting better and better as a nose. He has been progressively getting better and better and I think has done some nice things that way. He had a ways to go when we came in here from a physical standpoint. He was really too heavy at the time, we needed to get some weight off of him. We got 40 or 50, almost 45 pounds Paul is down right now. He’s moving better, his stamina is better, strength is better, all of those things that make you a good nose guard in there. I think he’s really gotten a lot better that way. Now it was just a reps thing. We got him quite a few reps during the preseason. It’s just been in the regular season now. He’s been maybe 10 plays somewhere in there, it just depends on the game. If we’re playing a team where we’re in ‘Nickel’ and we’re in ‘Sub’ defense a lot, neither he or (Jason) Ferguson are out there a whole lot in those situations. It’s kind of the trickle down deal and he doesn’t get as many plays.”
 
Now we see about Solai, maybe he starts and Ferguson comes off the bench. It's better we find out now about him rather than wait till next pre season, after the draft. Still I expect nose tackle to be a priority in the draft.
 
http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2008/10/23/dolphins-plan-if-no-ferguson/

If NT Jason Ferguson cannot play for Miami on Sunday, here’s Tony Sparano’s contingency plan.


“We’ll see what happens,” said Sparano. ”It’ll be Paul (Soliai), it’ll be (Randy) Starks, (Lionel) Dotson. There will be some people moving in and out of there.”


The Dolphins training staff has worked a lot on getting Soliai’s weight down. At 6′4″ 355 he’s dropped some weight already according to Sparano.
“Paul is getting better and better as a nose. He has been progressively getting better and better and I think has done some nice things that way. He had a ways to go when we came in here from a physical standpoint. He was really too heavy at the time, we needed to get some weight off of him. We got 40 or 50, almost 45 pounds Paul is down right now. He’s moving better, his stamina is better, strength is better, all of those things that make you a good nose guard in there. I think he’s really gotten a lot better that way. Now it was just a reps thing. We got him quite a few reps during the preseason. It’s just been in the regular season now. He’s been maybe 10 plays somewhere in there, it just depends on the game. If we’re playing a team where we’re in ‘Nickel’ and we’re in ‘Sub’ defense a lot, neither he or (Jason) Ferguson are out there a whole lot in those situations. It’s kind of the trickle down deal and he doesn’t get as many plays.”


I know a couple months ago, I read where Soliai weighed 335 and not the 355 he's listed at. Maybe he's 320-325 now.
 
i personally think we will see that we wasted a 4th round pick on solai but i hope im wrong.
 
I know a couple months ago, I read where Soliai weighed 335 and not the 355 he's listed at. Maybe he's 320-325 now.

If our coach says he is 355 then I tend to believe him but lord if he lost 55 lbs that would have put him upwards of 400lbs.:fridge:

Can you say early demise...
 
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If our coach says he is 355 then I tend to believe him but lord if he lost 55 lbs that would have put him upwards of 400lbs.:fridge:

Can you say early demise...

Alot of Samoans/Pacific Islanders of pure blood (Not mixed with Jaaneese/other) are huge. We had one in my unit that was a Cavalry Scout....He could barely squeeze through the hatch of the Bradley..:lol:
 
He's lost 45 lbs SINCE being 355. He's now being listed at 310. Which when I saw the other day shocked me and I assumed it was an old listed weight. This tells me its not.

Paul's been in there a bunch on short yardage and has gotten tremendous push. There hasn't been one thing said bad about the kid since he's been other than his suspension last week and what some posters just make up about him.

From the moment this regime got here they really liked Soliai and the draft confirmed that so lets see what this kids got. I am excited about that because if he's good that would free a high pick for us in the draft to use elsewhere.
 
He's lost 45 lbs SINCE being 355. He's now being listed at 310. Which when I saw the other day shocked me and I assumed it was an old listed weight. This tells me its not.

Paul's been in there a bunch on short yardage and has gotten tremendous push. There hasn't been one thing said bad about the kid since he's been other than his suspension last week and what some posters just make up about him.

From the moment this regime got here they really liked Soliai and the draft confirmed that so lets see what this kids got. I am excited about that because if he's good that would free a high pick for us in the draft to use elsewhere.

From what I saw last year, Solail is not the answer, he has almost no lower body strenght and he is easily pushed by OL,and seems to react very slow to the running plays. Unless he has improved drasticaly I bet we will have trouble stopping the run if Ferguson is out.

On the other hand, I don't now why, but we will defeat the Bills, and I know this, because they are a good team, and we play our best against good teams, since 2005 the year we became BAD.
 
I sure hope that soliai turns out to be solid because if furgie can't last another 3 years, we will having a glaring hole inour defense around the time when we should be a super bowl contender.

WE may have to draft someone but if we do it should be this year as opposed to next that way they will be a 2-3 year starter that will have developed and at least started to peak.
 
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