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NT Paul Soliai will be allowed to walk

Paul Soliai was a dominant football player in 2011, period. You can't move him. Miami shut down the run and he was easily the single most important reason why. You get nowhere as a franchise when you develop talent, let it go and create another hole to deal with while you are trying to plug other leaks. Soliai would fit in a 3-4 or a 4-3. He may be more ideal in a 4-3, but his dominant ability in the run game would be very effective in a 4-3 too. Ireland would like to keep him, according to his Senior Bowl press conference. Hopefully he will, regardless of what scheme Miami plays. Suppose we get a good pass rusher early in the draft, we don't want to then leave a void at DT. There is no one else on Miami's roster that can stop the run like Soliai. Odrick and Langford are too upright. Starks is a good player but not to the extent of Soliai.

PS I heard an interview with Brian Baldinger who asserted that Soliai was the single best NT in the league. Maybe hyperbole when his buddy Ngata is out there, but nevertheless, anyone who watched Miami this season could plainly see how dominant of a football player Soliai has been for two seasons now.
 
If this is true, they better throw "Soliai" contract money at Mario Williams.

LE Mario Williams
DT Randy Starks
DT Jared Odrick
RE Cameron Wake

Langford/McDaniels for rotation
 
3rdandinches said:
I call BS on the ranking, your not the 3rd ranked run defense with bad NT play. And NT is not expected to have a great impact in the pass rush, just get some push up the middle which doesn't show up on the stat sheet.
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I definitely get your point. Certain players impact doesn't show up on a stat sheet. THat said, our run defense was good but IMO that ranking is ALSO misleading. Teams carved up our secondary many times and wouldn't bother running because they knew they could pass on this defense.
 
3rdandinches said:
I call BS on the ranking, your not the 3rd ranked run defense with bad NT play. And NT is not expected to have a great impact in the pass rush, just get some push up the middle which doesn't show up on the stat sheet.
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Tell that to Ngata
5 sacks...2 forced fumbles and 64 tackles

Tell that to Wilfork
3.5 sacks...1 forced fumble...2 interceptions...52 tackles

Soliai....27 tackles...0 sacks...0 forced fumbles...0 interception

You want to get paid like the big boys you better produce like the big boys

12 million for that production ....send him on his way
 
Wilfok is a freaking BEAST in the 4-3. Why cant we keep Soliai do that? He pretty damn athletic for his size. He can move around and run. He's a big due who will still force offenses to double him. He will still be able to plug running lanes. All he needs to do I learn to push the pocket in, which he is decent at now and he could be pretty damn good in the 4-3 as a DT. But hey what the hell do I know I guess.
 
good let em walk, he did nothing this year, I know a 3-4 nose tackle is not supposed to get any sacks but this dude doesnt even sniff the QB
 
Austin Tatious said:
Paul Soliai was a dominant football player in 2011, period. You can't move him. Miami shut down the run and he was easily the single most important reason why. You get nowhere as a franchise when you develop talent, let it go and create another hole to deal with while you are trying to plug other leaks. Soliai would fit in a 3-4 or a 4-3. He may be more ideal in a 4-3, but his dominant ability in the run game would be very effective in a 4-3 too. Ireland would like to keep him, according to his Senior Bowl press conference. Hopefully he will, regardless of what scheme Miami plays. Suppose we get a good pass rusher early in the draft, we don't want to then leave a void at DT. There is no one else on Miami's roster that can stop the run like Soliai. Odrick and Langford are too upright. Starks is a good player but not to the extent of Soliai.

PS I heard an interview with Brian Baldinger who asserted that Soliai was the single best NT in the league. Maybe hyperbole when his buddy Ngata is out there, but nevertheless, anyone who watched Miami this season could plainly see how dominant of a football player Soliai has been for two seasons now.
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If Miami lets him walk obviously they don't agree with you or Baldinger and
the coaches get to see him up close every day
 
MiamiDolphins.com was reporting we'd stick with the 3-4, so I guess we really have no idea what we will do yet.
 
Zounds said:
Speculation. We dont know what defense we are going to run, and even if we switch to a 4-3, Soliai can still play in a 4-3. Starks was dangled as trade bait last year, Merling is on his way out, and Langford is a FA. We have no idea what will happen really. Any one of those linemen may be gone.

P.S - Soliai was not a "beast" this year. He played well the 2nd half of 2010, and thats pretty much it. He's not worth a big contract.
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Explain how we had the #3 run defense in the league? I guarantee it was b/c of Soliai taking on two OLinemen on each play. May not show up in Pro Football Focus' "stats", but the guy was a huge reason our defense was tremendous against the run.
 
thesparanos13 said:
good let em walk, he did nothing this year, I know a 3-4 nose tackle is not supposed to get any sacks but this dude doesnt even sniff the QB
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Really? Really? It's not his job. He doesn't play on Nickel downs. He plays for the most part, solely in the 3-4 lineup and is asked to simply take on two blockers. He does that and he consistently occupied two blockers which led to our #3 run defense. I'm all for letting him walk if we go to a 4-3, but to say he did nothing this year is inaccurate. This guy will get a huge contract regardless of what happens and if he moves on, he will anchor another teams 3-4 defense.
 
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