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This Miami Dolphins draft was not always about picking the players withthe cleanest records. This was not about always chasing the healthiest guys.This was not about doing the safest thing or the thing what would make monks atsome random monastery proud.
The past three days while the Dolphins added eight players was aboutwhatever the opposite of being risk-averse is.
Outside-the-box stuff? The Dolphins love that now and went looking forit.
Gamble? Yes, please.
Swing for fences with little regard for striking out? The Dolphins arethe NFL’s Dave Kingman.
“I’m thrilled with this weekend,” club owner Stephen Ross said. “We gotthe players we wanted. And if they weren’t there when we thought they would be,we went up and got them.
“There’s total unanimity. The scouts, the position coaches and thepersonnel department were all on the same page. I’ve never seen it like it. Andplayers they’ve been talking about wanting to add, they got every single one ofthem. That’s pretty thrilling.”
Ross was thrilled the Dolphins got offensive guard (as a rookie) LaremyTunsil when he dropped like a rock in water during the first round. Rossadmitted he’d never seen anyone taking a bong hit from a gas mask as Tunsil didon that now infamous video, and I have to admit, I’m right there with him.
But as far as the Dolphins are concerned, it doesn’t matter becauseTunsil is expected to be a really good player and clearly a better player thanthey hoped to get at No. 13.
Tunsil is the face of this Dolphins draft but not just because he waspicked first. It’s because he comes with great potential and great potentialfor failure, like so much the Dolphins are doing now.
They tried to trade up in the second round for Myles Jack, the UCLAlinebacker who dropped out of the top 10 because of a potentially chronic kneeissue that could limit his career to just a few years.
The Dolphins understood Jack might last through only one contract. Theyknew he needs another surgery on the same knee that has already been surgicallyrepaired once. But because Jack offered so much potential, they tried to tradeup to get him anyway.
They wanted to take the risk.
The Dolphins didn’t mind the risk involved in selecting Leonte Carroo.The team had a second-round grade on the Rutgers receiver and when he wasavailable in the third round they slid significant chips to the middle of thetable — giving up a third and fourth-round pick next year and a sixth-rounderthis year — to get him in a trade.
The Dolphins did this knowing Carroo was suspended twice from thefootball team last year — once for academic reasons and once after he wasarrested on a domestic-violence-related assault charge.
The charges for reportedly slamming a former love interest on a concretesurface outside the Rutgers football facility, it must be unambiguously stated,were dropped.
The alleged victim elected not to cooperate with the prosecution,making it impossible to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. Carroo wasopen with scouts from every team, including the Dolphins, when asked about theincident.
That obviously made the Dolphins comfortable bringing this young mannot just to their team but also into the South Florida community.
And the Dolphins are increasingly finding themselves comfortable withmore and more things they haven’t been comfortable with in the past.
The team made a trade with the division rival New England Patriots onSaturday, breaking an unwritten rule that you simply do not pick up the phonewhen Bill Belichick calls because he doesn’t have your best interest in mind.
The team is comfortable bringing back Dion Jordan, who has beensuspended multiple times the past two seasons and is himself the face of a 2013draft that is one of the worst in club history.
“If [Jordan] wants to play and shows us he loves football, why not,” asource told the Miami Herald.
More gambling? More risk?
The Dolphins drafted a 5-6 kid to return kicks and punts. The Dolphinspicked a running back with an injury history that includes a broken arm andfractured leg that occurred when he dislocated an ankle.
All that embracing of risk in search of electric reward is asignificant departure from the past few years.
Coming off the harassment scandal of 2013 and under a conservativecoach who didn’t feel comfortable with certain types of players, the Dolphinswent much safer not long ago
Read more here:http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/s...o-salguero/article74964577.html#storylink=cpy
Seems like much more BOOM or BUST in the draft with this regime. Might not always work, but it should at least be far more interesting than in times past...
The past three days while the Dolphins added eight players was aboutwhatever the opposite of being risk-averse is.
Outside-the-box stuff? The Dolphins love that now and went looking forit.
Gamble? Yes, please.
Swing for fences with little regard for striking out? The Dolphins arethe NFL’s Dave Kingman.
“I’m thrilled with this weekend,” club owner Stephen Ross said. “We gotthe players we wanted. And if they weren’t there when we thought they would be,we went up and got them.
“There’s total unanimity. The scouts, the position coaches and thepersonnel department were all on the same page. I’ve never seen it like it. Andplayers they’ve been talking about wanting to add, they got every single one ofthem. That’s pretty thrilling.”
Ross was thrilled the Dolphins got offensive guard (as a rookie) LaremyTunsil when he dropped like a rock in water during the first round. Rossadmitted he’d never seen anyone taking a bong hit from a gas mask as Tunsil didon that now infamous video, and I have to admit, I’m right there with him.
But as far as the Dolphins are concerned, it doesn’t matter becauseTunsil is expected to be a really good player and clearly a better player thanthey hoped to get at No. 13.
Tunsil is the face of this Dolphins draft but not just because he waspicked first. It’s because he comes with great potential and great potentialfor failure, like so much the Dolphins are doing now.
They tried to trade up in the second round for Myles Jack, the UCLAlinebacker who dropped out of the top 10 because of a potentially chronic kneeissue that could limit his career to just a few years.
The Dolphins understood Jack might last through only one contract. Theyknew he needs another surgery on the same knee that has already been surgicallyrepaired once. But because Jack offered so much potential, they tried to tradeup to get him anyway.
They wanted to take the risk.
The Dolphins didn’t mind the risk involved in selecting Leonte Carroo.The team had a second-round grade on the Rutgers receiver and when he wasavailable in the third round they slid significant chips to the middle of thetable — giving up a third and fourth-round pick next year and a sixth-rounderthis year — to get him in a trade.
The Dolphins did this knowing Carroo was suspended twice from thefootball team last year — once for academic reasons and once after he wasarrested on a domestic-violence-related assault charge.
The charges for reportedly slamming a former love interest on a concretesurface outside the Rutgers football facility, it must be unambiguously stated,were dropped.
The alleged victim elected not to cooperate with the prosecution,making it impossible to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. Carroo wasopen with scouts from every team, including the Dolphins, when asked about theincident.
That obviously made the Dolphins comfortable bringing this young mannot just to their team but also into the South Florida community.
And the Dolphins are increasingly finding themselves comfortable withmore and more things they haven’t been comfortable with in the past.
The team made a trade with the division rival New England Patriots onSaturday, breaking an unwritten rule that you simply do not pick up the phonewhen Bill Belichick calls because he doesn’t have your best interest in mind.
The team is comfortable bringing back Dion Jordan, who has beensuspended multiple times the past two seasons and is himself the face of a 2013draft that is one of the worst in club history.
“If [Jordan] wants to play and shows us he loves football, why not,” asource told the Miami Herald.
More gambling? More risk?
The Dolphins drafted a 5-6 kid to return kicks and punts. The Dolphinspicked a running back with an injury history that includes a broken arm andfractured leg that occurred when he dislocated an ankle.
All that embracing of risk in search of electric reward is asignificant departure from the past few years.
Coming off the harassment scandal of 2013 and under a conservativecoach who didn’t feel comfortable with certain types of players, the Dolphinswent much safer not long ago
Read more here:http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/s...o-salguero/article74964577.html#storylink=cpy
Seems like much more BOOM or BUST in the draft with this regime. Might not always work, but it should at least be far more interesting than in times past...