Per Roto: Miller in Miami

[Heinegrabber]

Not likely Lamar Miller re-signs with Miami

ESPN Dolphins reporter James Walker said there is a "40 percent" chance impending free agent Lamar Miller returns to Miami.

That might be generous. The Dolphins may be able to convince Miller the new coaching staff will better utilize him after being woefully underused the last four seasons, but they would still need to come up with the money. With Doug Martin likely staying with the Bucs, Miller will be the hottest young running back on the open market, and Miami is currently projected to be over the cap. They can save around $18 million by restructuring Ndamukong Suh's deal, but they also need to re-sign DE Olivier Vernon. With those cap limitations, spending a lot of money on a running back might not make sense.
















Source ESPN

Sorry if this was already posted.

 

[Hayden Fox]

LOL at the people that think Miami is cash strapped.

 

[Hayden Fox]

Plus, I love Miller, but the FA market will be littered with productive RB's. Play the market and find good value at RB.

 

[Daytona Fin]

Not likely Lamar Miller re-signs with Miami

ESPN Dolphins reporter James Walker said there is a "40 percent" chance impending free agent Lamar Miller returns to Miami.

That might be generous. The Dolphins may be able to convince Miller the new coaching staff will better utilize him after being woefully underused the last four seasons, but they would still need to come up with the money. With Doug Martin likely staying with the Bucs, Miller will be the hottest young running back on the open market, and Miami is currently projected to be over the cap. They can save around $18 million by restructuring Ndamukong Suh's deal, but they also need to re-sign DE Olivier Vernon. With those cap limitations, spending a lot of money on a running back might not make sense.
















Source ESPN

Sorry if this was already posted.

This is being bounced around twitter. It all originates from Walker's opinion that he gives Miller a 40% of returning. Walker is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Dolphins insider info, this report has no merit whatsoever.

http://espn.go.com/blog/miami-dolph...eviewing-dolphins-free-agents-rb-lamar-miller

 

[ANUFan]

Whatever!


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[Travis34]

This is being bounced around twitter. It all originates from Walker's opinion that he gives Miller a 40% of returning. Walker is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Dolphins insider info, this report has no merit whatsoever.

http://espn.go.com/blog/miami-dolph...eviewing-dolphins-free-agents-rb-lamar-miller

Good... I want miller back

 

[uk_dolfan]

walker is awful and has as many inside sources as I do. However I would not be surpised or angry if the team doesnt want to pay a rb a lot

 

[phintim]

U pay for productive players that you have drafted it creates great chemistry on the team

 

[raving]

1-800 Jay Ajayi

Miller is too small and goes down too easily.

Get me a smash back - plus Ajayi.

Put the money into OL and LB....

Miller did just fine for an 8-8 mediocre Philbin (corpse) team.

Lets move on!

Not likely Lamar Miller re-signs with Miami

ESPN Dolphins reporter James Walker said there is a "40 percent" chance impending free agent Lamar Miller returns to Miami.

That might be generous. The Dolphins may be able to convince Miller the new coaching staff will better utilize him after being woefully underused the last four seasons, but they would still need to come up with the money. With Doug Martin likely staying with the Bucs, Miller will be the hottest young running back on the open market, and Miami is currently projected to be over the cap. They can save around $18 million by restructuring Ndamukong Suh's deal, but they also need to re-sign DE Olivier Vernon. With those cap limitations, spending a lot of money on a running back might not make sense.
















Source ESPN

Sorry if this was already posted.

 

[jtsacksyou]

Not likely Lamar Miller re-signs with Miami

ESPN Dolphins reporter James Walker said there is a "40 percent" chance impending free agent Lamar Miller returns to Miami.

That might be generous. The Dolphins may be able to convince Miller the new coaching staff will better utilize him after being woefully underused the last four seasons, but they would still need to come up with the money. With Doug Martin likely staying with the Bucs, Miller will be the hottest young running back on the open market, and Miami is currently projected to be over the cap. They can save around $18 million by restructuring Ndamukong Suh's deal, but they also need to re-sign DE Olivier Vernon. With those cap limitations, spending a lot of money on a running back might not make sense.
















Source ESPN

Sorry if this was already posted.

I have to laugh whenever I see someone say something so specific like "40 percent chance". If it said 50-50, fine, but no - he must've ran some simulations or found a way to model the probability, what a smart guy Walker must be.

 

[whizafriz]

I have to laugh whenever I see someone say something so specific like "40 percent chance". If it said 50-50, fine, but no - he must've ran some simulations or found a way to model the probability, what a smart guy Walker must be.

it's like the least offensive mathematical percentage of saying "I don't think he will."

I like Lamar Miller -- I like Rishard Matthews too, but I feel OK moving on from both. They deserve to go to a team that will play them and feature them. Maybe Gase wants to, but if not, then they should just go., save the money to fix this OL and D.

 

[LordTua]

I think Miller WANTS to be here. He grew up here if I'm not mistaken and played his college ball here. I think we have the egde in signing him. And imo he is a MUST to resign. We cant keep drafting players and then when they finally develop we decline to pay them because "we can easily replace them in FA".

We've tried that approach before and it NEVER works out. The only thing we haven't tried is to keep our good players.

 

[phinfan40353]

Miller is still on the rise as a player. He has yet to reach his potential. He may not be the next Ricky Williams, but he has a lot of realized and unrealized value to this team.

And yes, he has started breaking tackles. The bigger problem that is hidden beneath the laughable handling of our OL and run game play calling ... is that we haven't given ourselves a better chance to assess Miller. When we as a team are committed to the run, he has done very well. And he has nice dual threat ability out of the backfield.

His under-utilization reminds me of Priest Holmes' career right before Dick Vermeil tossed him a higlight tape of Marshall Faulk and told him to "be like him".

I'm not saying he's Priest Holmes, calm down. I'm saying his lack of utilization seems very similar. He is perfectly healthy and has improved his game in many ways. This would be a typical Dolphin's blunder to let a young talent walk in his prime.

Lamar Miller and OV should be Priorities #1 and 2 before we move into FA. And before all of that happens, we need to dump a ton of dead weight.

 

[utahphinsfan]

Plus, I love Miller, but the FA market will be littered with productive RB's. Play the market and find good value at RB.

You have advocated keeping OV while letting Miller go? Interesting?

Keep Lamar. Let OV & Coples go.

As for the DE rotation in 2016; keep Moore, resign Shelby, restructure Wake, draft Lawson or Ogbah. Oh yeah, extend Fede next off season and then let Wake go.

 

[datruth55]

1-800 Jay Ajayi

Miller is too small and goes down too easily.

Get me a smash back - plus Ajayi.

Put the money into OL and LB....

Miller did just fine for an 8-8 mediocre Philbin (corpse) team.

Lets move on!

Yeah Miller is small...he's only 5'10" 225 lbs...:rolleyes2:

Another power back like Ajayi...good call. Lets have two RBs that are exactly alike and don't compliment each other at all. That should make it easier on the defense at least. By the way...what exactly did Ajayi show last year to make anyone think he's better than Miller? Was it his 3.8 ypc average? I'll tell you right now...you're not finding a homerun hitter like Lamar Miller in free agency. There's no one in free agency that can score from 97 yards out like Miller did against the Jets or 85 yards out like he did against the Texans. The 97 yarder is the longest in Dolphins franchise history so don't kid yourself...50 years in the NFL and Miller owns that franchise record.