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☠️ Banned ☠️
Jay Fiedler now has a new deal and his status with the 'Fins has been solidified. I know there are a whole ganglia of ‘Fin-faithful out there who would have rather seen our beloved team head in another direction, but let’s face it, there’s not another player out there who the ‘Fins would be able to get their hands on who would be much of an upgrade over the ever cool under pressure Fiedler.
ESPN posed the question: “If you were a Dolphins fan, who would you like to see as your starting QB?†They provided us with the following options: Jay Fiedler, Troy Aikman, Drew Bledsoe, or Trent Dilfer. More than sixty-percent of the voters chose Bledsoe. If you really take the time to look at these options however, you’ll quickly find that there’s not a serious upgrade amongst the options. Aikman would be coming off of a year-long hiatus from football and would, at best, have some rust to work through. At worst we would see the Aikman that we saw in the final couple of years he played in Dallas: oft-injured (neither the concussion problem nor the back problem has been fully resolved) and constantly whining about everything that ever happened on the football field.
Our next choice, Bledsoe, is obviously one of the better QB’s out there right now but not right for the ‘Fins. This team is set up to have a QB who can make plays with his feet when he has to and Bledsoe is about as close to a pure pocket passer as is out there right now. Although he can lumber about when forced to, he does not possess the ability to be the mobile QB that Miami needs. Besides all of this, the price to get a hold of Bledsoe would be astronomical and absolutely not worth it.
Then there’s Dilfer; Dilfer the winner, Dilfer the leader, Dilfer the all around NFL good guy. I’m not going to argue the upsides and downsides to this guy since that’s been one of the most over-talked about stories in the NFL this past year. We all know he’s a good player who possesses decent QB skills and great intangibles, but isn’t that what the ‘Fins already have in Fiedler? And I don’t believe there’s a person in their right mind out there that can adequately argue that Dilfer is an upgrade over Fiedler. Dilfer deserves a starting nod on someone’s roster, just not the Dolphin’s.
Finally that brings us to Fiedler. Here’s a guy who’s won twenty-two games in his first two seasons as a starter, has been only the second Dolphins QB to pass for over three-thousand yards, is a proven leader, and who has an uncanny ability to shake off a mistake and make plays when they need to be made. Let’s face it, without Fiedler in a couple of those games last year, the Dolphins would never have been in it at the end.
Instead of chiding Fiedler or the organization for bringing him back, let’s just hope that the ‘Fins do what is necessary to provide Jay with the tools (i.e. a decent ground game and O-line) he needs to lead this team into the Promised Land. Like it or not, Jay’s the man in ‘Fin-town for the foreseeable future; if I were you, I’d chose the former.
ESPN posed the question: “If you were a Dolphins fan, who would you like to see as your starting QB?†They provided us with the following options: Jay Fiedler, Troy Aikman, Drew Bledsoe, or Trent Dilfer. More than sixty-percent of the voters chose Bledsoe. If you really take the time to look at these options however, you’ll quickly find that there’s not a serious upgrade amongst the options. Aikman would be coming off of a year-long hiatus from football and would, at best, have some rust to work through. At worst we would see the Aikman that we saw in the final couple of years he played in Dallas: oft-injured (neither the concussion problem nor the back problem has been fully resolved) and constantly whining about everything that ever happened on the football field.
Our next choice, Bledsoe, is obviously one of the better QB’s out there right now but not right for the ‘Fins. This team is set up to have a QB who can make plays with his feet when he has to and Bledsoe is about as close to a pure pocket passer as is out there right now. Although he can lumber about when forced to, he does not possess the ability to be the mobile QB that Miami needs. Besides all of this, the price to get a hold of Bledsoe would be astronomical and absolutely not worth it.
Then there’s Dilfer; Dilfer the winner, Dilfer the leader, Dilfer the all around NFL good guy. I’m not going to argue the upsides and downsides to this guy since that’s been one of the most over-talked about stories in the NFL this past year. We all know he’s a good player who possesses decent QB skills and great intangibles, but isn’t that what the ‘Fins already have in Fiedler? And I don’t believe there’s a person in their right mind out there that can adequately argue that Dilfer is an upgrade over Fiedler. Dilfer deserves a starting nod on someone’s roster, just not the Dolphin’s.
Finally that brings us to Fiedler. Here’s a guy who’s won twenty-two games in his first two seasons as a starter, has been only the second Dolphins QB to pass for over three-thousand yards, is a proven leader, and who has an uncanny ability to shake off a mistake and make plays when they need to be made. Let’s face it, without Fiedler in a couple of those games last year, the Dolphins would never have been in it at the end.
Instead of chiding Fiedler or the organization for bringing him back, let’s just hope that the ‘Fins do what is necessary to provide Jay with the tools (i.e. a decent ground game and O-line) he needs to lead this team into the Promised Land. Like it or not, Jay’s the man in ‘Fin-town for the foreseeable future; if I were you, I’d chose the former.