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Today is the fifth day of the NFL 2016 league year. That doesn't mean games but it does mean gains for several Miami Dolphins players.

As part of their contracts, several Miami Dolphins players see guarantees kick in today -- as a way of forcing the team to show its hand that it plans to keep the players or let them go by today.

The Dolphins are keeping Mike Pouncey, Branden Albert and Ryan Tannehill.
Pouncey on Sunday had his entire $9 million 2016 base salary and $2 million of his $7.95 million base salary for 2017 become fully guaranteed today.
Albert on Sunday had $6 million of his $8.42 million base salary in 2016 become fully guaranteed.

And Tannehill had $3.5 million of this $17.975 million base salary for 2017 become fully guaranteed.
Cha-ching.

It has been a busy weekend for the Dolphins. They hosted quarterback Brandon Weeden, defensive end Jason Jones, linebacker Sean Spence all visit. And all left after their visits without contracts. The team is giving all of them the once-over as backup possibilities.

Not exactly free agency shopping at Sak's, right?
Well, as I explain in my column in today's Miami Herald, the Dolphins have apparently learned that making the big free agency splash is not any sort of guarantee for winning.

I give you some interesting factoids about what free agency did for other teams last year relative to great players coming on their roster. I outline for you the new direction the Dolphins are headed.

It means the Dolphins are not going to win the NFL offseason championship this year. That seems headed to the New York Giants.

I"m fine with that.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...ey-no-offseason-title-for-team-this-year.html
 
Its not too much to ask for these dumb asses to sign a real offensive guard...im not asking for them to reinvent the damn wheel here...
 
hooshoops said:
Its not too much to ask for these dumb asses to sign a real offensive guard...im not asking for them to reinvent the damn wheel here...
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The way they've handled the guard situation is nothing short of infuriating. INFURIATING.
 
I would LOVE this offseason to this point if they went got a veteran guard and sniffed around more some of these CB's that have played quality snaps in the past. Carroll, Hall, Powers...

I think if they go bargain shopping later on they could find some gems. There are some solid players still out there.
 
I think everyone agrees the Guard thing is pretty annoying.
 
EmperorPhin said:
Yuck 18 mil for Tanny next year what a joke. Please draft a qb
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It might not mean much to you but three other qbs plus maybe Fitzpatrick got paid Big this off-season that I don't exactly hold in higher respect than t hill. At least we have team options (and maybe a player option) throughout the contract that leave much of the money unguarenteed. I believe the team option year is next off season.

Basically what I'm saying is, t hill would be getting a chance at a free agent contract like bradford/cousins/osweiler and I think it would have been for more because he has proven so much more than these other average/unproven qbs

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hooshoops said:
Its not too much to ask for these dumb asses to sign a real offensive guard...im not asking for them to reinvent the damn wheel here...
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Patience my friend. Cody Whitehair, Joshua Garnett, Jack Conklin (although an OT), and Ryan Kelly (although an OC) have Pro Bowl potential at guard. At least one of these players should make it #42. Most likely the fist 2 mentioned.
 
Tannenbombs said:
Patience my friend. Cody Whitehair, Joshua Garnett, Jack Conklin (although an OT), and Ryan Kelly (although an OC) have Pro Bowl potential at guard. At least one of these players should make it #42. Most likely the fist 2 mentioned.
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I'm well aware of the draft options...but now we are putting ourselves in a position where we have to use a top 45 pick by your count on an unproven rookie on a position that we could have easily filled in free agency with a proven nfl veteran

that is assuming they aren't serious about bushrod being a starting guard
 
I'd be more worried about the guard situation if it was June, but we are still in March and while many f the higher profile guys are off the market, that doesn't mean you still can't get one in the coming months. I would let this play out before panicking too much...at least the signed a better option at Swing. If I remember correctly the offense sort of hit its stride when they put in Turner and had James still playing, when James went down, so did the season.
 
hooshoops said:
I'm well aware of the draft options...but now we are putting ourselves in a position where we have to use a top 45 pick by your count on an unproven rookie on a position that we could have easily filled in free agency with a proven nfl veteran

that is assuming they aren't serious about bushrod being a starting guard
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Demand for the top guards in Free Agency exceeded supply which led to an auction and ridiculously high salaries, eg Osemele is now the highest paid player on the Oakland Raiders team. Some of us think that it wasn't too easy to get one of the top free agents. For once I think that Tannenbombs could be right and we address this need in the Draft.
 
spiketex said:
Demand for the top guards in Free Agency exceeded supply which led to an auction and ridiculously high salaries, eg Osemele is now the highest paid player on the Oakland Raiders team. Some of us think that it wasn't too easy to get one of the top free agents. For once I think that Tannenbombs could be right and we address this need in the Draft.
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that's going out on quite a limb considering we have done nothing yet
 
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