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**ESPN (media) hates the Miami Dolphins mega thread**

Nothing new here, ESPN is a garbage network that rarely has anything positive to say about the Phins. Meantime, same article has Hoeyer rated B signing lmao. Joke
 
The only thing I see on ESPN are the scores, nothing else.
 
I love it. For years they always claim we are the Free Agency darlings with big moves and they like them. If they hate them, it justifies that we are finally doing something right.
 
They're just running numbers. I do understand some of their points, and some of their points are fair. But there are intangibles to take into account- the change of culture, Miami rewarding its own guys, team and locker room chemistry- stuff that isn't measurable that must be taken into account. Miami knows these factors better than anyone else. It's why you sign your own guys. When you sign someone else's guy for big $$, all these intangibles are unknowns. So, ESPN can have its opinion, that's fine. They also didn't mention that letting these guys walk would create holes that needed to be filled- with whom? Someone else's free agent? Why not just sign your own?
Anyway, I hate ESPN. I don't even go there for scores. College football broadcasts only and nothing else. Literally.
 
Seriously F this guy. There are so many elements he overlooked. First and foremost it sets a culture that shows players the front office will stand by the guys that not only perform on the field, but buy in to the system and practice hard. As enculture before was put up personal stats, so you can get out of dodge, as we have not retained our own players.

The 2nd thing this "journalist" missed was age/chemistry. He wanted us to let Kenny go and sign and older speedy WR, for marginally less money. WR is one of the hardest positions to pick up, and the majority of free agents and rookie WRs have poor statistical year as they learn the offense and build chemistry with the qb. Kenny is young, knows he offense, and has such a great chemistry with Ryan the deep ball finally showed up after 4 years of absence.

Another facet this guy ignored is how these elements on the Dolphins offense compliment each other. Kenny's role is so important in the offense. With out the deep threat Jarvis and Jay's production takes a knock. THere has to be a deep threat to keep the defense honest. We could have gambled on an older cheaper free agent, or we could have kept the guy who proved he could do it for 4millikn less than the market. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 
"Stills" better than re-signing Brandon Marshall :-) see what I did there?:iwantmore:
 
That assessment isn't particularly unfair.

Is Kenny Stills going to get the targets to justify that contract? Not likely if Jay Ajayi or DeVante Parker remain healthy. He'll just be an expensive luxury.

But on the flip side, he's only 24, and the skill position is looking really talented right now. And Tannehill isn't the type of quarterback who's going to have success in terms of winning with merely modest talent. So it's good that we have significant options.

Andre Branch was a dire position of need, and a player who stepped up as a emotional leader last year. Still feel like he's got better years to have.
 
Espn is garbage. A bunch of guys in their mid 30's using high school slangs to try and be cool. Their dip into politics is annoying too.
 
The stats he used in the Stills section is a horribly bad spin job by someone who is obviously biased!
 
I don't think they're far off here and a lot of what they said has been echoed on this site.

We just gave our 3rd wr $20m guaranteed. Now, it's not my money, and I'm going to trust Gase here, but at $8m it was a toss up for me to keep stills or let him walk.
 
They try and make it sound like Branch was jusr a backup but he started every game pretty much. He played well, did everytjibg asked of him and was a great leader, add in that theres a real chance tbis is wakes last season and its obvious we need to keep branch . ESPN does little thought to their "grades".
 
That's a guy worth taking a shot on, but even in this inflated market, $20 million in guarantees is an exorbitant sum. The Dolphins are spending hand-over-fist to bring back players such as Andre Branch and Stills, under the logic that they're talented, young, core pieces on what was a playoff team last season. They were useful, but the Dolphins grossly outperformed their Pythagorean Expectation in 2016 by going an unsustainable 8-2 in one-score games. This isn't a budding contender that needs to be kept together at all costs. It's a team that could have used the compensatory pick that would have come from letting Stills leave while signing somebody such as Torrey Smith to stretch the field at a fraction of the cost.
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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/pag...barnwell-grades-big-2017-free-agent-deals-nfl

While I don't completely agree about his assessment on Stills...it's hard to argue the last paragraph.
 
Article makes no sense... Deep threats that go over the top to open the offense never come close to 100 catches, for example. Mike Wallace had a career best 73 catches, and that was with us. When we were trying to force him the ball because we paid him like a top 3 reciever. Desean Jackson had 82 in 2013 when he exploded. he hasn't gone over 62 catches since, but I guarantee you he's going to get paid by the Bucs here soon. Deep threats are paid for more that just catches... Stills was open A LOT deep last year. Our shaky o-line pass protection has a lot to do with his production as well, which should (I hope) improves this year.
 
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