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Six Moves to Upgrade the Offense in the Offseason

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Sadly, this is a lost season for the Miami offense. Not only has there been poor performance across the board, but there really is no meaningful progress for the future, other than identifying incompetent players. Here is what I would do in the offense:

1. Fire Mike Mularkey the day after the season ends. Possibly promote Jason Garrett. However, the replacement needs to commit to the run and also throw the ball downfield.

2. Trade Chris Chambers for Randy Moss. Both players need a change of scenery badly. Chambers is one of the worst dolphin problems and it is exacerbated by the fact that he is a "name" player meaning simpletons are lulled into thinking he is not a problem. I am not crazy about Moss either but he has a proven track record of production when coupled with Daunte Culpepper. This is the best solution for moving Chambers. He could probably bring a first day draft pick, but then the Dolphins would be lacking a starting caliber receiver. Getting Moss in here would buy the Dolphins a year or two to bring in a young receiver with toughness who will go get the ball and produce in the mold of a Steve Smith, Chad Johnson or the like.

3. Trade Randy McMichael to the Bears for a low round draft pick. The salary cap ramifiications this bad kid puts on us is awful. I am just hopeful we can find a way to get him off our roster in 2007. Bad kid, player, bad seed. We cannot afford to have this bad human being on our roster.

4. Sign free agent tight end Daniel Graham. The Pats will not keep him and he is a"team guy" and everything that McMike is not.

5. Draft OT Jared Gaither from Maryland in the first round. The kid has worn out his welcome in college and has massive size and good mobility. We cannot afford to go another season without addressing left tackle.

6. Release OG Jeno James. Let Toniu Fonoti, Joe Toledo, and Seth McKinney battle for the position. If Fonoti stays in shape, he will be more than adequate.

That would leave this lineup:

QB Culpepper Lemon Harrington

RB Brown Williams Morris Minor

FB Eckel

TE Graham Peele

OT Gaither Alabi plus veteran insurance

OG Fonoti Toledo

C Hadnot McKinney

OG Shelton Mckinney/Toledo

OT Carey Alabi

WR Moss Hagan

WR Booker Welker Vick

Now, those are only 6 moves. That leaves plenty of free agent money and draft picks for the defense, particularly at sam, nose and corner.
 
i think daniel gibson is severly undersized for a TE at 190 lbs. he's got a decent jumper though...could help us in those charity basketball events. might be worth looking into.
 
Please - let Oakland keep Mr Moody Moss. And I'm not sure I agree with trading CC. Get a new #1 Wr and demote CC to 2nd, but no Moss or TO.
 
Most of that stuff isn't bad, except I would release/trade harrington and go with culpepper/lemon and draft a guy to be the future.
 
id love that cc moss trae reuniting pep and moss would be insane
 
You have some good points. Agree that we should ditch McMichael, he's definitely too inconsistent and too much of a knucklehead for the money.

Agree in principle with the moves on the O line, although disagree with the Chambers move. However, in my opinion our number one priority should be the QB position. As of this moment, we only know that Joey Harrington will never be more than what he is and will not lead us to the promise land. We should cut him after the season. We don't know if Culpepper will return to form next year, we simply don't know that right now. We also don't know that even if he does that he won't get injued again, you must have two solid QBs in this league. Look at the Eagles for example.

We should draft a QB next year regardless of whether Pep returns or not, we need to have the future sorted out at that position and need to invest a good draft pick in that most important position. I really wish Saban would sit Harrington and give Lemon a chance so we can see what we have with that kid. We should also look to sign another free agent at that position next year, one that is better than Harrington. To be honest, after several games as well as considering his past, I think we've seen enough to judge accurately as to what he is and what he is not. He is a dink and dunk passer who cannot throw the ball downfield and often when he tries he throws a pick. He doesn't fit in our system and doesn't give me as a fan any confidence whatsoever, he's just not good enough...
 
Fire Mularkey? Maybe. We'll have to endure another year of the players getting used to how the OC call plays.
Trade Chambers for Moss??? Are you still drinking the Kool-Aid? Moss is a head case this team does not need.
Trade McMichael? Only if you can find someone better.
Sign Graham? He won't come cheap because he'll be high demand.
Draft Gaithers? He has not declared and word is he's planning on returning to school.
Release Jeno James?? Why not let James, Fonoti and Toledo battle for the job and release one of the losers.
 
No to Moss, yes to trading McMike (but Chicago would never take him, they dont need him. Did you forget they have a guy named Demond Clark who just recieved for 125 yards and is a good probowl candidate). yes to GRAHAM (Who is Gibson?). Keep Chambers, we need a huge ricmond webb type left tackle wherever we get him. (draft or FA) Yes to fire Mularky
 
Austin Tatious said:
Sadly, this is a lost season for the Miami offense. Not only has there been poor performance across the board, but there really is no meaningful progress for the future, other than identifying incompetent players. Here is what I would do in the offense:

1. Fire Mike Mularkey the day after the season ends. Possibly promote Jason Garrett. However, the replacement needs to commit to the run and also throw the ball downfield.

Great move but I'll bet that Saban is too stubborn to fire Mularkey. Hope I'm wrong.

2. Trade Chris Chambers for Randy Moss. Both players need a change of scenery badly. Chambers is one of the worst dolphin problems and it is exacerbated by the fact that he is a "name" player meaning simpletons are lulled into thinking he is not a problem. I am not crazy about Moss either but he has a proven track record of production when coupled with Daunte Culpepper. This is the best solution for moving Chambers. He could probably bring a first day draft pick, but then the Dolphins would be lacking a starting caliber receiver. Getting Moss in here would buy the Dolphins a year or two to bring in a young receiver with toughness who will go get the ball and produce in the mold of a Steve Smith, Chad Johnson or the like.

We'd be better off with the first day pick than the cap clogging, attitude problem Moss. I've reached the point myself with Chambers that I could see trading him b/c we aren't using him or getting the best out of him. The cap ramifications might prevent this, though.

3. Trade Randy McMichael to the Bears for a low round draft pick. The salary cap ramifiications this bad kid puts on us is awful. I am just hopeful we can find a way to get him off our roster in 2007. Bad kid, player, bad seed. We cannot afford to have this bad human being on our roster.

I would say he's a bad player more than a bad person. Cawanna's a handful and I'm more concerned that her husband looks slow, lethargic and has the worst hands of the starting skill players on the team. I could see trading McMike for another problem from another team.

I don't like Peele either. We need two new TE's and hopefully one of them is named Gonzalez.
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Geforce said:
Fire Mularkey? Maybe. We'll have to endure another year of the players getting used to how the OC call plays.
Trade Chambers for Moss??? Are you still drinking the Kool-Aid? Moss is a head case this team does not need.
Trade McMichael? Only if you can find someone better.
Sign Graham? He won't come cheap because he'll be high demand.
Draft Gaithers? He has not declared and word is he's planning on returning to school.
Release Jeno James?? Why not let James, Fonoti and Toledo battle for the job and release one of the losers.
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I have no qualms about going with Peele if we can get something for McMichael.
 
who would trade chris chambers for randy moss anyway? randy moss sucks now. why would the bears want mcmichael. desmond clark is 3 times the receiver he is.
 
emocomputerjock said:
I have no qualms about going with Peele if we can get something for McMichael.
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I have a big qualm if we have to go with Peele as our starting TE. He's slow, has worse hands than McMichael and the only thing Peele does better than McMike is block at the point.
 
Austin Tatious said:
Sadly, this is a lost season for the Miami offense. Not only has there been poor performance across the board, but there really is no meaningful progress for the future, other than identifying incompetent players. Here is what I would do in the offense:

1. Fire Mike Mularkey the day after the season ends. Possibly promote Jason Garrett. However, the replacement needs to commit to the run and also throw the ball downfield.

2. Trade Chris Chambers for Randy Moss. Both players need a change of scenery badly. Chambers is one of the worst dolphin problems and it is exacerbated by the fact that he is a "name" player meaning simpletons are lulled into thinking he is not a problem. I am not crazy about Moss either but he has a proven track record of production when coupled with Daunte Culpepper. This is the best solution for moving Chambers. He could probably bring a first day draft pick, but then the Dolphins would be lacking a starting caliber receiver. Getting Moss in here would buy the Dolphins a year or two to bring in a young receiver with toughness who will go get the ball and produce in the mold of a Steve Smith, Chad Johnson or the like.

3. Trade Randy McMichael to the Bears for a low round draft pick. The salary cap ramifiications this bad kid puts on us is awful. I am just hopeful we can find a way to get him off our roster in 2007. Bad kid, player, bad seed. We cannot afford to have this bad human being on our roster.

4. Sign free agent tight end Daniel Graham. The Pats will not keep him and he is a"team guy" and everything that McMike is not.

5. Draft OT Jared Gaither from Maryland in the first round. The kid has worn out his welcome in college and has massive size and good mobility. We cannot afford to go another season without addressing left tackle.

6. Release OG Jeno James. Let Toniu Fonoti, Joe Toledo, and Seth McKinney battle for the position. If Fonoti stays in shape, he will be more than adequate.
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#1. No... We can't keep changing offensive coordinators and think the inconsistency is GOOD. Understand something about Mularkey. He was told to come to Miami as our OC but use Linehan's offense. I think 3 OCs in 3 years hurts more than it helps.

#2. IN A HEART BEAT. What's the difference between them? Randy takes plays off, Chambers actually tries and drops the passes. Randy Moss is a negative player in Oakland because they suck. Bring him to Miami to play with Culpepper and it might just work.

#3. If Randy McMichael can't be traded to Chicago, trade him somewhere. And for the person who questioned why he is a "bad kid" "bad seed" -- Do we not remember him complaining about lack of throws to him? (then when they do throw to him, he drops them) -- Do we not remember him beating the crap out of his wife? Maybe we can trade him to Cincy!!!

#4. Agreed! but not Daniel Gibson... :lol:

#5. Fine.

#6. Ok, but release Seth McKinney also...
 
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