Don't know if this was posted anywhere else, but with all the talk about how badly Miami needs another pass rusher and most mocks have the Fins taking a pass rusher with either their first or second pick, does anyone else think it is a smokescreen?
I know I am in the minority when I say that I think we have more pressing needs, and I just don't see Sparano tipping his hand so much. It just seems there are too many articles all saying the same thing. Could it be a smokescree?
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/story/966204.html
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/2009/03/miamis-need-for-speed-off-the-edge.html
Really, this team is coming together, and there really isn't a more pressing need than getting a better pass rusher.
Here is what we need that is pressing:
A verastile ILB
A big time WR
A young NT to groom
A young stud CB
A pass rusher or 2.
Outside of Raji, who will be long gone . . . NT can be had later with a guy the front office likes.
Same to be said for ILB, Curry is a top 5 lock and I like Rey, but him and Crowder both are average in coverage. Maybe Cushing, but both him and Rey will more than likely be gone by the time we pick. Lauranitis is not a 3-4 ILB, he needs to man the middle of a 4-3. We can probably get away with Ayodele/Crowder this season, but I wouldn't mind a Frantz Joseph later on.
WR is tricky, I just don't know if one of these guys in the late first round is what we really need. Yea I would love Anquan, but would Nicks/Bey be better for us over Butler/Davis. Crabtree would be a no brainer, but the other guys just don't wow me, I rather get a veteran guy, hell maybe Wilford wakes up . . . . and let these young guys develop. Fact is this team has 4 WR's that we like . . . and all 4 are young as hell. We need a veteran in the mix.
CB definitely is the only other PRESSING need, that we need to address early, so u got to figure either u get the guy u want at CB and settle for a guy later on . . . or vice versa. It is like pick your poison.
1. Darius Butler/Vontae Davis/Alphonso Smith
2. Paul Kruger
1. Michael Johnson/Larry English/Clint Sintim/Clay Matthews
2. Byrd
Me, i agree that I rather get the CB, because we need to get a stud guy in there that is young. One of those pass rushers may drop.
Either way I think we take the BPA at a position of need. Hell maybe the FO thinks Ron Brace is the man . . . who knows. It is all speculation right now.