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Miami Dolphins intend to keep core offensive playmakers together through 2020

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The Dolphins are working toward keeping that group together at least through the 2020 season. That’s four more years for the Dolphins’ quarterback and his top three receivers to grow and learn and develop together.

What makes that more probable than Brady staying in New England another five or six years is that all three Miami receivers are 24 years old and Tannehill is 28.

“Our goal is to make sure that these three guys (Landry, Stills and Parker) stay together for a long period of time and to make sure they stay with the quarterback to develop a great continuity between those guys,” Gase said.

Part of the work is already complete. Tannehill signed a contract extension in 2015 that keeps him in Miami through the 2020 season. Check.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/s...-salguero/article141482884.html#storylink=cpy
 
Boy, imagine that, we finally have a sound plan to follow. Is Gase the mastermind of the culture change or did Tannenbaum suddenly have an epiphany himself. Very nice to see whoever is responsible.
 
That is a very good thing to think about.
 
I wonder whose idea this was. It's so much nicer to have some competency in the FO and coaches.
 
Hell it got Atlanta 30 minutes away from being Super Bowl champs.


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And if we can add a nice rookie guard to the mix then we should be playing at an elite level offensively


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Phinatic8u said:
That means that Gase is trying to build an elite offense and hope the defense gets better.
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It's a lot easier to enter an offseason with one unit set. I feel like with the approach they're taking it will be a lot easier to focus on defense, with top 3 WR's set, QB, RB, TE1?, LT, C.
 
I think that's it. Now we can focus all our attention on the other side of the ball although i do think they will draft an interior lineman somewhere in the top four rounds and probably add another good FA OL afterwards.
We still have one open guard spot assuming they start Bushrod at the other.
 
Regardless of anything said by the team or through media sources who are getting leaks, I think the plan is to draft a starting guard, or at least a player that they hope can be a starting guard by next season.

Bushrod is not a long term answer and the more I think about it, the more I do think that Gase may have been blowing smoke talking up Bushrod so much.
 
I don't think you need a round 1 guard to be successful. This isn't the Philbin era. We got competency out of 2 converted tackles. A point that I loved, that I forget who made it, is that Gase basically made Vasquez and Beadles look like pro-bowl guards, only for them to go elsewhere and fall flat. Regardless they need youth at the guard position, grabbing a guy in the 2nd-4th round and having him compete with Bushrod is fine with me, considering Tunsil to me will be a big upgrade at LT. Even if they think they can win with Larsen and Bushrod as the top 2 guard options, it doesn't mean they won't want to add youth to an interior that is devoid of it.
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
Regardless of anything said by the team or through media sources who are getting leaks, I think the plan is to draft a starting guard, or at least a player that they hope can be a starting guard by next season.

Bushrod is not a long term answer and the more I think about it, the more I do think that Gase may have been blowing smoke talking up Bushrod so much.
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They will almost certainly draft a guard in round 1, 2, or 3.... And any of the prospects projected to fall into that range would start over Bushrod, IMO. He was a good depth signing like he should have been last season but we wasted picks on bums like Dallas Thomas.

I still like Dawkins, Johnson, or Elfrein at 54 over Lamp at 22 though I am starting to visualize what a guard like Lamp would do for our offense.

There are a couple of tackles slated to go a bit later that can be converted as well, like Sharpe.
 
fishfanmiami said:
I think that's it. Now we can focus all our attention on the other side of the ball although i do think they will draft an interior lineman somewhere in the top four rounds and probably add another good FA OL afterwards.
We still have one open guard spot assuming they start Bushrod at the other.
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Larsen is more of a lock to be starting at guard than Bushrod is. Not sure why so many people haven't picked up on that. Not only that, but I expect him to play damn solid... book it right now.
 
Atila said:
Larsen is more of a lock to be starting at guard than Bushrod is. Not sure why so many people haven't picked up on that. Not only that, but I expect him to play damn solid... book it right now.
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I agree. He's going to be our best under the radar move of the offseason, IMO. Love his versatility as well. People are quick to point out the number of teams he's been with, but fail to recognize the fact that he's started many games for those teams.

It's all about the scheme, and Larsen fits ours nicely.
 
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