Originally posted by RUDEbyallMEANS
I personally hoping this was just a very very good fake out.
AJ Feeley in Miami. Who would of thought.
On Jan. 10th of this year. There was a thread callled, "Are we going QB in the first round? Looks like it." The person who started the thread, mentioned some options that would be available. Another finheavener named KBISBACK, beat me to the punch on being the first one on Finheaven to mention A.J. Feeley as a possibility. I backed him up on that one because I had the opportunity to watch the games Feeley played in, and I liked what I saw. But, I only said to go after Feeley if the more established QBs were too pricey to sign. I also believed we would get a better bang for our buck signing him, because he would be cheaper.
Then, it looked like we were focused on Ramsey and Henson, so Feeley never crossed my mind anymore. But the sudden signing of him caught me off guard, because there was no mention of anyone from the Fin brass talking to Feeley's agent.
But it's still pretty cool that the QB I figured that would "fly under the radar" was signed by us.
Now we just have to wait and see what happens. I will definitely be flying down for my first Dolphins training camp this summer (woo hoo) to check things out. I've been a Fiedler supporter all this time, but I do welcome the change.
Giving up next year's conditional second round pick was a shocker, but why complain about it. In free agency, you have to over spend. We fell short one year on signing Kruetz and the following year on signing Gandy. Then people ON THIS BOARD criticized the front office for not being aggressive enough. I have faith in Speilman. He hasn't done anything to hurt this team to make me think otherwise. I trust he did all his homework on Feeley, and then he did what it takes to get him. It's a risky trade that could pay off big for us, but at least someone in the front office has some balls to take a chance. .