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Sun-Sentinel "Miami Dolphins' biggest draft busts of all-time"

Dion Jordan will officially become the biggest Dolphin draft bust of all time the second he is cut, which I expect isn't long from now.
 
Crazy that Shula had so many bad drafts. Imagine if he had someone picking players that weren't busts........Marino might have a ring or two
 
The Fins also had some bad luck along the way during Marino's 80's.
The deaths of Larry Gordon, David Overstreet, and the career ending injury to Dwight Stephenson.
Shula was a great planner, motivator and game coach, but he relied on others like Beatherd and Winner to supply the talent.

This list is riddled with horrible players, but we still had the best coach in Don Shula. Coaching matters.
 
While the Dolphins were whiffing on draft picks in the 1980's, the Bills were fatteneing up on future Hall of Famers. Granted, they had to be horrible for a long time to accumulate those high picks, but shrewd drafting is why they were in 4 Super Bowls in the 90's while Marino was on the outside looking in.
 
not sure why eddie moore is there. yeah he wasn't very good but he was a second rounder along with other busts like Andrew greene, pat white and eddie blake
 
Jimmie Johnson is the only person affiliated with the Dolphins that had any idea how to draft during my lifetime. It's so sad that Marino's retirement was just before guys like taylor, thomas, madison, surtain, bowens, gardner, etc. came aboard to be the pieces he was missing. And then they were good enough to carry that clown Fiedler. If you're gonna suck at least do it right and be in the position for top 5 picks. **** man.
 
Sad to say, but I don't think Ginn deserves to be lumped in with some of those other busts. Dude has actually been productive in the league. Not a #1 or #2 even, but still helps make plays and is a solid returner still. Over drafted by a lot, sure, but at least he is still playing
 
Because of the costs of moving up in the draft to get him. Dion Jordan has to be the biggest bust in our history
 
Ed Blake, Rick Graf, Aubrey Beavers, Daniel Thomas, Jamar Taylor, J.J Johnson, John Beck, Philip Merling, Pat White....all second round whiffs. Second rounders shouldn't be throw-away picks.
 
I think the trade down for John Avery at the expense of Randy Moss, rather than the trade up for Dion Jordan at the expense of (insert names) was far more crippling to this franchises fortunes.
 
daryl said:
I think the trade down for John Avery at the expense of Randy Moss, rather than the trade up for Dion Jordan at the expense of (insert names) was far more crippling to this franchises fortunes.
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Reports were Jimmie would of taken vonnie holiday if the predraft trade wasn't made
 
The three names I think of are Rick Norton, Billy Milner and Dion Jordan.

I have no idea how Rick Norton doesn't show up on lists like this. Check where he was drafted. I was a very young kid but a couple of years later I distinctly remember my dad talking football with a neighbor and telling him that Norton couldn't play at all, that Stofa and Griese were superior.

I've mentioned many times that my family not only attended that Jets/Colts Super Bowl in January 1969 but also the Dolphins hosting the Jets a few weeks earlier in the season finale. After watching that game I knew darn well the Jets would not be a pushover in the Super Bowl. I sat there watching them dismantle the Colts in many of the same ways they handled the Dolphins.

Rick Norton quarterbacked most of that 1968 game hosting the Jets. The offense was so laughable we all sat there in silence, knowing nothing good could happen. Miami missed a very short field goal early in the game and then did basically nothing.

Just for kicks tonight I looked up Norton's stats in that game: 6 for 17 for 59 yards and one interception. Yep, that sounds about right, based on my mental images of that game.

It makes no sense he isn't prominent on the all time bust lists. If we drafted a Hall of Famer with that pick he'd darn sure be remembered.

Billy Milner had no ability. There was no way to rationalize or justify that pick. Previously when Shula made a dud first round pick at least I'd try to read the scouting reports over again and hope that maybe I missed something. Not with Billy Milner. I remember appearing on a Las Vegas draft review panel on KDWN radio and condemning not only that pick but the Andrew Greene choice that followed in round two.

At least Dion Jordan has the most memorable facial expression in franchise history. A tornado could circle him multiple times and I'm not sure that expression would change.
 
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