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Rich McKay never doubted Hickey would be a GM

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It was another day of firsts for Miami Dolphins General Manager Dennis Hickey, as he sat in on the opening day of the NFL owners meetings in his new role for the first time.

One seasoned veteran GM and now a team president, Rich McKay of the Atlanta Falcons, never doubted that Hickey would be here one day.

"His number one trait is hard work", said McKay, who spent seven seasons as Hickey’s boss with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “It’s a good trait to have and I think it’s the ultimate trait when you measure guys that are successful. Usually it starts with hard work and Dennis is a very hard working guy. He is very diligent, and that’s why he had the ascension that he had in Tampa.”
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I was always one that thought you should get all those people to do everything and expose them to everything as opposed to being (isolated) because it gave them the best chance for success later,” McKay said. “The one thing I liked about Dennis in the college side was you knew exactly who the player was when you read his report. In other words, it’s easy to tell who can play and we can all write up how a player plays, but it’s hard to know who that player is as a person and their football character and their personal character and I always felt when you read Dennis’ report there was no issue. You knew exactly who he was, and sometimes he gave you the words and said, ‘I’m still willing to sign off and this is why.’ So he was a really, really good scout.
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I hope Hickey turns out to be a good one. Would sure be nice for long suffering Dolphins fans.
 
Being able to judge character and personality is where Ireland was such an abject failure. He was good at picking talent, horrible at finding players who fit.

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Ireland never really drafted for talent, at least not as the sole reason.

He was all about 'value', he was all about the acorns.

I'm sure most professional personnel men agree on the which players are the most talented.

He picked for need too, or like last year, even worst to make a 'big splash'.

Basically there was always a reason why NOT to pick the most talented player on the board when we picked.

He could get another player later, cheaper, or we needed someone or let's trade up to make a big splash...
 
tcdrover said:
Ireland never really drafted for talent, at least not as the sole reason.

He was all about 'value', he was all about the acorns.

I'm sure most professional personnel men agree on the which players are the most talented.

He picked for need too, or like last year, even worst to make a 'big splash'.

Basically there was always a reason why NOT to pick the most talented player on the board when we picked.

He could get another player later, cheaper, or we needed someone or let's trade up to make a big splash...
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The problem was that too often the values that they came up with were not correct. For all of the draft picks showered year after year on the O-line, effectively we still only have Pouncey as a starter. His concept of drafting for value wasn't bad. The failure was in getting the correct values.
He seemed to be able to find decent late round DBs (eg Reshad Jones, Clemmons, Carroll, Wilson), but he couldn't find decent O-line.
 
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