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If we had drafted Mallet?

they've been wrong before (dan marino, for instance) but how many times did teams pass on mallett before the team with arguably the best qb in the league take him?
 
Ryan Mallet is a natural. There is not a single natural passer on the Dolphins roster, and there has not been one since Marino.
 
Bootmo line my friends. Mallet should have been drafted in the 2nd round by this front office. Not a running back for God's sake!!!!
 
Maybe somebody like Hasslebeck would've have been good to bring in. A decent veteran that's on the way out.

What if the Dolphins had drafted Brady Quinn, so what? How much worse off would they be? It wouldn't be the end of the World if Mallet failed. This team has almost no chance at drafting a franchise QB if they aren't willing to take any chances. Look at the team that drafted the legendary Ryan Leaf. Same guys that drafted Brees and Rivers. You gotta take some chances.

I don't think the Dolphins should have let Mallet get past 15 and passing again was really stupid. I think the teams that need a QB that passed on him made a mistake and that's why they are teams that need a QB.

I'll get over it when the Dolphins find or even make a decent attempt to find a real QB!
 
ChambersWI said:
honestly, if we are going to complain about QBs we should've drafted and didn't, can we atleast complain about ones that have proven something? That means WV should complain about Ryan, everybody should complain about Rodgers, and passing on Brees twice.

But with Mallett, as of right now he's exactly in the same position Devlin is in; third string QB going against third string defense.
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Roman529 said:
I hate Lombardi and that d-bag named Tom E. Curran....they are both a couple of Brady butt sniffers.
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Who are better informed, and a lot smarter than you are. There's NOTHING wrong w/MALLET's intellect, he's just a Rookie, and he may just "want it" too bad. MIAMI could use a little of that. Instead, MIAMI moved up into Round 2 to get a younger, slightly slower R BROWN.
 
The argument that "Mallet looked good against third stringers!" cracks me up.
Didn't Henne fall apart against the Falcons first stringers and only looked good when their second team defense walked onto the field? I'll take my chances on a rookie playing in his first game over a 4 year vet who looks lost until backups take the field.

Had we drafted Mallet he would be getting reps with the first team and be in position to start week 1. Sparano might give Henne the job, but the minute he turns the ball over(and lets face it, that would have happened quickly) Sparano would have thrown Mallet out there to try and save his job. I'm guessing Mallet would be entrenched as our starter by week 4.

There was absolutely no question about Mallet's ability on the football field. The guy is more ready to start then Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco, Mark Sanchez, or Josh Freeman when they were coming out(and all played as rookies). We might not have had a great season his rookie year(6-10 or 7-9, roughly the same as we are going to have with Henne), but the 2012 season we would be laughing our way into the playoffs.
 
This thread is so depressing! To think that this FO after all that we've been through last season...Didn't draft or acquire a legitimate Qb at ALL COST is mind boggling and unforgivable!
 
1Dolfan said:
We would've been screwed. Still would've had a crapy interior o line and the slowest/least mobile QB in history in mallet
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Slower and less mobile than Marino or Henne? Hmm...
 
um I still wouldn't expect mallet to do anythign until 2012, and by then who knows how screwed up would he be?
 
Every report I'd heard about him in camp said he looked very sharp and so naturally there was a sense of "yeah well let's see how he does in preseason" which was fair, except now he also did well in the first preseason game.

So now there's a sense of "yeah well let's see how he does for the rest of preseason" and again, that's pretty fair.

Rookies don't usually perform extremely well in preseason even if they end up good.

The thing I don't see anyone mentioning is how cohesive the Patriots offense looked while he was in there. He had a dumb rookie error when he drew a delay of game, but otherwise you didn't have the kinds of route miscommunications that we saw when Miami faced the Falcons. That's puzzling to me. You can say oh well the Pats have a well established offense...but established to whom? Ryan Mallett and the players he played with that night were mostly new to the Patriots. They've had no more ability to learn that offense than Henne, Bess, Hartline, etc have had to learn Daboll's offense. Yet, Mallett seemed to have full command of what was going on out on the field and Henne didn't, on only 8 pass attempts he threw twice to receivers running a route he didn't expect them to run.

This isn't necessarily Henne's fault, nor is it necessarily a Mallett > Henne issue. I've been saying that these players only practices the Dolphins had been running have questionable value, and I bet a players-only practice run by Tom Brady has probably the value of 5 or 10 players-only practices run by Chad Henne and Jake Long. I think we saw that play out in the first week of preseason.
 
ckparrothead said:
Every report I'd heard about him in camp said he looked very sharp and so naturally there was a sense of "yeah well let's see how he does in preseason" which was fair, except now he also did well in the first preseason game.

So now there's a sense of "yeah well let's see how he does for the rest of preseason" and again, that's pretty fair.

Rookies don't usually perform extremely well in preseason even if they end up good.

The thing I don't see anyone mentioning is how cohesive the Patriots offense looked while he was in there. He had a dumb rookie error when he drew a delay of game, but otherwise you didn't have the kinds of route miscommunications that we saw when Miami faced the Falcons. That's puzzling to me. You can say oh well the Pats have a well established offense...but established to whom? Ryan Mallett and the players he played with that night were mostly new to the Patriots. They've had no more ability to learn that offense than Henne, Bess, Hartline, etc have had to learn Daboll's offense. Yet, Mallett seemed to have full command of what was going on out on the field and Henne didn't, on only 8 pass attempts he threw twice to receivers running a route he didn't expect them to run.

This isn't necessarily Henne's fault, nor is it necessarily a Mallett > Henne issue. I've been saying that these players only practices the Dolphins had been running have questionable value, and I bet a players-only practice run by Tom Brady has probably the value of 5 or 10 players-only practices run by Chad Henne and Jake Long. I think we saw that play out in the first week of preseason.
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Mallett looked very good against the Jags. But I'm pretty sure that Patrino's offense is also Erhardt-Perkins based, which is the same base they use in New England. That's really helped him hit the ground running.
 
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