Jonnu Smith not at mandatory minicamp

[Finsup1981]

I wouldn't let Jonnu walk. That creates a hole where there isn't one and hurts the offense right away. Jonnu scored 8 TDs so he's pretty valuable in the red zone. He is the kind of TE we need and in addition he has great chemistry with Tua. Stop letting talent walk out of the building. Drew is a Dolphin friendly agent, give the guy some more money and some incentives like 1000 yeards and 10 TDs. Stop letting him hang out there, show the guy some respect and treat him right. I have a feeling that Ross shut off the money. The guy made the Pro Bowl, that's worth something imo. He was the only player from Miami in the Pro Bowl. This is a small and easy fix, what is taking so long. Show the dude some love, why do we have to choose now to play hardball.

I think some of it has to do with the extensions we handed out last year and how bad they look in hindsight with Reek Ramsey Tua and even Waddle… I can assure you there’s some buyers remorse there and that’s partially the reason we are hesitant to extend him early.

Grier has a bad recent track record of resigning the wrong guys, the money that ended up going to Ramsey should’ve been used to sign Hunt a year early etc.

 

[WestLondonDolphin]

I wouldn't let Jonnu walk. That creates a hole where there isn't one and hurts the offense right away. Jonnu scored 8 TDs so he's pretty valuable in the red zone. He is the kind of TE we need and in addition he has great chemistry with Tua. Stop letting talent walk out of the building. Drew is a Dolphin friendly agent, give the guy some more money and some incentives like 1000 yeards and 10 TDs. Stop letting him hang out there, show the guy some respect and treat him right. I have a feeling that Ross shut off the money. The guy made the Pro Bowl, that's worth something imo. He was the only player from Miami in the Pro Bowl. This is a small and easy fix, what is taking so long. Show the dude some love, why do we have to choose now to play hardball.

I would rather not lose him but not keen to cave … we need to stop doing that.

Also, everything we’ve done this off-season is about both getting younger and changing the approach to the offense.

Jonnu was incredibly valuable last year on short passes where he could get yards after the catch and we did a lot of that because we just could not run the ball.

Now we’ve invested in new Guards, two big backs, a run blocking TE and a big WR3 who can block.

If we can get back to being able to run the ball effectively and so open up the deep passing game again … Jonnu’s role is going to be pretty diminished.

Obviously this could all not go to plan and so having the option - on the contract he signed - would be ideal.