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Juggernaut Index No. 31: The Miami Dolphins

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This is interesting just from the standpoint of where Dolphin skill players are being selected in early drafts, which I think is way to early to be having drafts right now in the first place. Still, this talks about where they are, or are not, being taken and the fantasy outlook from that point.

For those who aren't familiar with the Juggernaut Index, this series is our annual ranking of NFL teams for fantasy purposes. Repeat: FOR FANTASY PURPOSES. Here, we care primarily about yards and points. The Juggernaut Index is all about projected fantasy contributions — that's it, nothing else.

The Miami Dolphins did not provide us with a top-12 fantasy quarterback in 2013, nor a top-24 wide receiver, nor a top-36 running back. This year, no Miami skill player rates as a fantasy starter in the Yahoo preseason consensus ranks. It seems likely that in a great many 8-team leagues, no Dolphins will be selected on draft day.

On the basis of these facts, I can't reasonably rank this team anywhere but near the bottom of the Juggernaut Index. Apologies, 'Phins fans.

That said, I'm actually plenty interested in Miami's 2014 fantasy potential. I'm not here to bury this team. This franchise rebuilt an offensive line that was a colossal embarrassment last year, on-field and off. The team added Pro-Bowl left tackle Branden Albert via free agency, then used a first round pick on right tackle Ja'Wuan James. Mike Sherman is out as offensive coordinator, replaced by Bill Lazor, who served as Nick Foles' position coach in Philly last season.

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I don't know much about fantasy but I think the defense is probably our most draftable entity. I predict Tannehill is going to have a good year, 30+ TDs and 4000+ yards, not sure if that makes him draftable or not but I'm predicting he'll be a top 5 QB in yards this season.
 
I was just reading this now and was about to post it. I'd still draft several Dolphins players on my team. Not starters but certainly flex positions at minimum. Show us you can play and maybe that'll change.
 
Who the **** plays in an 8 team fantasy league? What would be the point? Every roster would be stacked.
 
mnphinfan said:
Who the **** plays in an 8 team fantasy league? What would be the point? Every roster would be stacked.
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My first year ever playing we had 8 teams, mainly because we were all new and didn't have more than 8 people willing to play.

If I recall, I had a young Peyton Manning, Cris Carter, Randy Moss, Ricky Williams (New Orleans version), Curtis Martin, Marshal Faulk (when he was DOMINANT) and those are just off the top of my head.

But yeah, 8 person leagues are beyond ridiculous unless all the owners are newbies looking to learn a little about the ins and outs of Fantasy Football.
 
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He's the real juggernaut!!!


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I think by week 3 we will know who sticks out In Lazors system.
Landry and Wallace could do very well in Fantasy. With improved Oline Tanne could be top 10 qb.
 
Landry is a sleeper pick of mine, I play in a 14 man league, so every draft pick has to count. Hoping I can pick him up in round 14 or so
 
mnphinfan said:
Who the **** plays in an 8 team fantasy league? What would be the point? Every roster would be stacked.
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Never play in anything but 12 team leagues. I like 14 but the bye weeks make it impracticle

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jnewmant said:
Landry is a sleeper pick of mine, I play in a 14 man league, so every draft pick has to count. Hoping I can pick him up in round 14 or so
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in a 14 team league don't teams get caught with no backup at qb because of bye weeks? I always play 12 so just wondering
 
dlockz said:
Never play in anything but 12 team leagues. I like 14 but the bye weeks make it impracticle

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in a 14 team league don't teams get caught with no backup at qb because of bye weeks? I always play 12 so just wondering
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a few teams do but that's when I usually swoop in a trade rape someone. It's pretty funny watching people burn the number one waiver on ryan mallett after the first week Brady ends up on the injury report for the year, it never fails.
 
roy_miami said:
I don't know much about fantasy but I think the defense is probably our most draftable entity. I predict Tannehill is going to have a good year, 30+ TDs and 4000+ yards, not sure if that makes him draftable or not but I'm predicting he'll be a top 5 QB in yards this season.
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Those are some high hopes, I hope you're correct. With Peyton, Brady, Rodgers, and Brees most likely being your top 4 that would mean Ryan would have to beat out some pretty big names. Staford has the weapons around him to have a big year, Cutler and Matt Ryan has some extremely good weapons at their disposal, and Rivers will have a shot at the top 5. Having said that, I do think if Ryan stays healthy you could still be right. Yards is the one area that we have a chance to launch RT17 into the top 5 IMO. My biggest concern is that we should be much more balanced this year which will take away some of Ryan's snaps.

So much of the excitment building around the team will be squashed if we don't find a way to shore up the OL. Our guards are still a huge question mark and that added to the fact that we will be starting a rookie at RT. I would feel much better if we could bring in another vet OG to play RG. I have liked Dallas Thomas since the day we drafted him and think he will be decent at LG, but we have to find a pass blocking RG and Shelly just isn't that person.

We should know a lot more once we get to see em in pads, but my concern is that if we don't bring in a vet OG before the start of camp, and Shelly doesn't completely reinvent himself, by the time they go out and find someone else he won't have enough time to start the season on the same page with everyone else. I really hope we sign another OG in the next week or two to get them time to study the playbook before the start of TC. But I haven't seen any indication that is a possibility.
 
jnewmant said:
Landry is a sleeper pick of mine, I play in a 14 man league, so every draft pick has to count. Hoping I can pick him up in round 14 or so
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I'm looking at grabbing him late as well, the only way somebody beats me out is if footballguys.com ranks him high among the other rookies. When it comes to the late rounds I'd say only 5-6 of us really know the players that are left, at least half my league just blindly drafts off footballguys best available past round 11-12

So yeah, footballguys please ignore Landry this year :up:
 
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