Roth claimed by Browns, rest of Wed. news
Former Dolphins OLB Matt Roth was claimed by the Browns today. No surprise there.
And yes, the Dolphins say Roth was cut from the team Tuesday for as "a football decision." That is not a surprise to anyone that reads this blog and saw The Herald's reporting on the topic yesterday.
On to news about Dolphins players still, you know, on the Dolphins:
NT Paul Soliai, TE Anthony Fasano and LB Erik Walden returned to practice today after missing last week's game. All practiced full so all should be available Sunday.
C Jake Grove and DE Lionel Dotson did not practice Wednesday. Joe Berger took the first-team center snaps.
Soliai practiced with the first-team defense at nose tackle. The nose tackle rotation, I'm told, is likely to be Soliai and Tony McDaniel. There is some thinking that Randy Starks will be in that rotation, but I'm told that is not true.
Why would the Dolphins take their most consistent defensive end and ask him to play out of position?
Won't happen.
Soliai has to step up and reward all the work injured and done-for-the-year veteran Jason Ferguson did in mentoring him the past 18 months. And Soliai plans to do just that.
"I want to play for him and show him I learned everything he taught me," Soliai said. "He believes in me and I got to show everybody I can do it, too."
The Dolphins filled out their 53-man roster today by adding G-C Mark Lewis, who was with the team in training camp.
Lewis was back home in California when he got the call from Miami to come back. He had been working at a Christmas tree lot the past week and expected to do that job through the holiday season.
"I was working with tractors, chain saws, lifting trees and helping people out," Lewis said.
He expected to make about $3,000 in a month at the lot. On the active roster, Lewis will be making approximately $22,000 per week as the prorated portion of a rookie minimum contract.
The improvement of Chad Henne was a big topic of conversation today. Everyone is agreed the Dolphins new starting quarterback is getting better.
"I think you like to see a guy turning errors into non-errors instead of repeating errors and he has shown an ability to do that," offensive coordinator Dan Henning said. "I think the more he plays, the better he's going to get."
