fishypete
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your not going to see us linked to ever prospect, thats impossible. do you seriously believe we will ONLY draft Bulter or Smith?
No...but the odds are they would like Sean Smith over a smaller corner.
your not going to see us linked to ever prospect, thats impossible. do you seriously believe we will ONLY draft Bulter or Smith?
I fully believe that the Dolphins would like to find a bigger corner. Absolutely. Someone that maybe some people believe is a safety, but that they would play at CB. Basically, either Sean Smith, Jairus Byrd, Keenan Lewis or Sherrod Martin.
However, like Saban said once upon a time...you don't stock the fridge with just ketchup, even if you like ketchup. Then you reach for some mustard and find no mustard, just ketchup.
Christopher Owens would absolutely find a role on this team longer term. And so would Sean Smith.
I fully believe that the Dolphins would like to find a bigger corner. Absolutely. Someone that maybe some people believe is a safety, but that they would play at CB. Basically, either Sean Smith, Jairus Byrd, Keenan Lewis or Sherrod Martin.
However, like Saban said once upon a time...you don't stock the fridge with just ketchup, even if you like ketchup. Then you reach for some mustard and find no mustard, just ketchup.
Christopher Owens would absolutely find a role on this team longer term. And so would Sean Smith.
No...but the odds are they would like Sean Smith over a smaller corner.
What does that even mean, with respect to Owens? How is that useful to the discussion at hand? Sean Smith is rated higher than Chris Owens, I love Owens and I wouldn't deny that. I have Smith as one of my top 2 corners in the draft. That doesn't mean they wouldn't be interested in Owens at some point.
The one thing that will keep them looking at Owens is the fact that he's a tackle machine. His tackle totals at the college level project to almost 100 tackles a year at the pro level. That's Antoine Winfield-like tackling ability.
Would you want him covering Randy Moss or Terrell Owens in the red zone? No. But, he's a bottle of mustard, and guys like Sean Smith, Jairus Byrd, Keenan Lewis and Sherrod Martin are bottles of ketchup.
But at what price CK? Do you spend a late 3rd or early 4th on a nickel or dime corner? If he was a 6th or 7th rounder..or better yet a free agent...I would feel the same way...but I don't see his value to the team using a earlier draft pick.
Any corner you take in the late 3rd or 4th is ALREADY an iffy projection to start at some point of his career. What makes Owens any different?
Is Sherrod Martin, who has been a safety in his career at Troy, any more likely to end up a starting cornerback than the All-WAC interception and tackling machine Chris Owens? Really?
What makes him different? We need quality...not quanity. We have scrubs already...don't we?
How about selecting a quality corner...for a change.
I'll stick with the Parcells model...size, speed and agilty.
Quality means high draft picks. We only have 3 first day draft picks and already that's one more than most teams have.
You can ask for the world, you're not going to get it. And there's nothing in the Parcells model that guides that the Dolphins couldn't draft Chris Owens. You're just pretending that there is.