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Jake Long is on "shaky ground" with the Dolphins.

Bernadino is a tool and the dullest beat writer so he has to drum up speculation to get any attention. Martin is starting RT and backup LT. Without him, the Dolphins have no legitimate LT in case of a Long injury.
 
PogiRo said:
Not so sure if this is aimed towards my post. But in no way was I saying Jake Long was expendable, but you've got to put a cap on how much money to give him. Does changing blocking schemes affect that cap?
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Wasn't specifically aimed at you, and I agree you have to put a limit at some point. But I don't think that limit should be lower than market value. Which is probably going to be a little more than Joe Thomas' 7 year 84 million deal he got last year.
 
please dont mess this up fins, we have a sweet o line now, dont mess it up

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pay the man, hes still young and has plenty of years ahead of him
 
Cam Wake, Clay Matthews, Lamarr Woodley, Robert Mathis, Chris Long, Von Miller all rush from the stong side. All teams want two good pass rushers and in a passing league having two Tackles with good feet is becoming more important than having a road grader.
 
I think there are a few things with this dilema...

First of all, I don't think we drafted Martin to eventually replace Long. I think the thought process is play him on the right side, however, he is versatile to play the left side if needed be, meaning should Jake Long have to miss games due to injury. Now, that's not to say he wouldn't replace him permanentley. I mean if Long can't get healthy and misses a significant amount of time this coming year (which is a contract year), then I could see Martin replacing Long permanentley only if Long is not willing to lower his asking price or to a reasonable asking price.

Secondly, I think the other problem here is just that, Jake Long's asking price. I'm sure he wants to get paid and he certainly deserves to get paid up until now, but I think our FO is going to wait and see how he pans out this year. However, If I recall correctly, I remember reading an article a few months back indicating that Jake Long didn't want to re-sign with us and wanted to test out the free agent market, whether its true or not, i don't know. But what I do know is that winning changes everything, and if we can get this team turned around and going in the right direction and Jake Long sees that, he may not want to leave and may eventually lower the asking price.
 
More poo being flung on the wall to see what sticks.
 
72PhinFan said:
Bernadino is a tool and the dullest beat writer so he has to drum up speculation to get any attention. Martin is starting RT and backup LT. Without him, the Dolphins have no legitimate LT in case of a Long injury.
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Agreed. Philbin, Sherman, & even Ireland are not revealing all their rationale for the picks hence the speculation.

The OL has improved more in the last 2 days than in the prior 4 years. :d-day:
 
I'd be shocked if they let him go. However, I agree with paying him a certain amount. The last 2-years he has had injury issues. I don't think that can't simply be over looked.
 
Shame on Bernadino. There is nothing to this, but his speculation. **** him and his newspaper.
 
yep! i thought something was up as i have several posts in recent days saying jake wont be here after the season. the finz wont pay him what he WILL get on the market. he doesnt fit the zone scheme, light on the feet, athletic linemen philbin and other wco teams like. his latest injury bug and maybe some things we dont know about play into this as well.

we didnt win consistantly with him. takes a lot more than one good lt to make the bowl. we won a few without him. theres a whole lot of teams out there in the play offs and super bowl who dont have anything near a jake long.

when your a bad team, void of talent like we are, you have to give something up to get in the game, to get more pics or different players at other needs.

i have also said, before the draft and during it that if the finz took a tackle early, it would be one who could also play LT. we needed a rt on paper, but i said over and over this week that i felt jake would be gone at seasons end and they would take a versatile tackle to plug on the right side that they can slide over to fill jakes coming vacancy after the season.

it "appears" i may be dead on. i didnt like the martin choice, i thought there was other guys who were better ot's, better potential starting lt's should jake leave. still think so. but, it makes sense in philosophy if they are trading jake [maybe this is where our big time wr or db is coming from?] or they know he is leaving and just prepairing to plug the hole.

i dont have a prob with jake going AS LONG AS WE GET SOMETHING OUT OF IT!!!

this bunch will probably just let him walk at seasons end settling for comp pics.
 
After all the resources the Dolphins have committed to the OL, I don't see them creating a potentially big hole by letting Long go. Cant ignore the injuries but you cant let a healthy Jake leave.
 
The whole idea of letting Long walk is complete bull. The Dolphins have over $50 million in cap space in 2013. Worst case scenario they franchise him and trade him for multiple first round picks.
 
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