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It's defense first for Dolphins assistant Pasqualoni

I'm taking a wait and see attitude. IMHO, our DL isn't really ideal, we have an aged NT in Ferguson, a good but old player in Holiday that isn't a perfect fit for the 34, and Starks who holds potential, but isn't the finished article. And nobody has worked with anyone standing next to them. Add in two rookies that need to adjust to the NFL and add weight, and trying to force a square peg like Roth into a round 34 hole. It's going to be a rough ride. Although, I can see Rod Wright excelling at this defense, and if the light ever comes on for Soliai (last chance saloon?) he'd be a nice fit as well.

At Linebacker, we have Joey Porter and misfits. If Taylor comes back, great, but I think everyone is expecting him to be gone at some point this season. Without Zach, Channing will have to get by on merit--and I think he's just plain not good enough. I like Torbor, but he's not exactly a star. Ayodele is a subpar performer who we hope can improve as an ILB. Filling the other OLB (Taylor's replacement) will either be one of the athletic phenoms who hasn't really done anything, either Charlie Anderson or Quentin Moses. Color me underwhelmed.

I think our secondary was mistakenly not addressed in this draft. There were a tonne of good CB prospects, yet we selected zero. Will Allen is solid but undersized, everybody else has real holes in their game, health, or just plain sucks. At Safety we have Jason Allen and hope he continues to develop. Yeremiah Bell, like every year, will tantalize with ability then get injured. Hopefully one of our retread veteran safeties can fill the void. I don't even know that we can field a decent nickel package to be honest.

I'm not going to crucify Pasqualoni if we suck, because honestly, our secondary is weak, our linebacking corp is subpar, and our line needs time to gel. All these people predicting silly stuff like a 9-7 record just aren't looking at the roster. People expecting us to be the Zach and Jason defense from the Saban year are just plain delusional. The best things our defense has going for it are Joey Porter and our running game ... seriously.
 
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I'm taking a wait and see attitude. IMHO, our DL isn't really ideal, we have an aged NT in Ferguson, a good but old player in Holiday that isn't a perfect fit for the 34, and Starks who holds potential, but isn't the finished article. And nobody has worked with anyone standing next to them. Add in two rookies that need to adjust to the NFL and add weight, and trying to force a square peg like Roth into a round 34 hole. It's going to be a rough ride. Although, I can see Rod Wright excelling at this defense, and if the light ever comes on for Soliai (last chance saloon?) he'd be a nice fit as well.

At Linebacker, we have Joey Porter and misfits. If Taylor comes back, great, but I think everyone is expecting him to be gone at some point this season. Without Zach, Channing will have to get by on merit--and I think he's just plain not good enough. I like Torbor, but he's not exactly a star. Ayodele is a subpar performer who we hope can improve as an ILB. Filling the other OLB (Taylor's replacement) will either be one of the athletic phenoms who hasn't really done anything, either Charlie Anderson or Quentin Moses. Color me underwhelmed.

I think our secondary was mistakenly not addressed in this draft. There were a tonne of good CB prospects, yet we selected zero. Will Allen is solid but undersized, everybody else has real holes in their game, health, or just plain sucks. At Safety we have Jason Allen and hope he continues to develop. Yeremiah Bell, like every year, will tantalize with ability then get injured. Hopefully one of our retread veteran safeties can fill the void. I don't even know that we can field a decent nickel package to be honest.

I'm not going to crucify Pasqualoni if we suck, because honestly, our secondary is weak, our linebacking corp is subpar, and our line needs time to gel. All these people predicting silly stuff like a 9-7 record just aren't looking at the roster. People expecting us to be the Zach and Jason defense from the Saban year are just plain delusional. The best things our defense has going for it are Joey Porter and our running game ... seriously.
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i agree with a lot of wat you said up until the 9-7 stuff. We could win that many games if our O line is wat its suppost to be. R&R can really do some damage and pull off some wins that way even if the D is lacking, but who knows, like every season there is always a bunch of question marks. I think Ricky is right when he says he will have 1000 yards etc. . Ricky isnt the kind of player to just speak outta his *** unless he felt it was true, he must really think we have a bad *** line or hes on the verge of getting suspended for good =(
 
Folks we have to be patient. The secondary needs help for sure but you can't fix everything all at once. One good thing that is happening this season is that Porter is going back to his natural position. Another point is that the Dolphins upgraded the NT position. Bringing in Ferguson was a good move. Even though he is getting up there in age he will be a lot more active than Keith (I can't move) Traylor. He was awful last season.

It is going to take a while to turn this thing around but they seem to be addressing the trenches first. That makes me happy. You have to build from the inside out.

This coaching staff will have this team more prepared every week to go out there and compete and as long as we show improvement each week things will fall into place.

Nice article!
 
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