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[h=3]The fallout of Miami Dolphins personnel opinons[/h]This time of year, it seems, everyone is a personnel guru. Everyone has opinions about NFL talent and incoming NFL talent. And mostly those opinions that drive decisions in the spring, determine wins and losses in the fall and winter.
And so today I share with you multiple Miami Dolphins personnel opinions that matter that should give insight about why the Dolphins have taken the path they have taken this offseason.


Consider:


Running back Lamar Miller: Start with the fact interim coach Dan Campbell was not a fan. During the latter half of the 2015 season, the interim coach seriously wanted more Jay Ajayi and less Miller, per multiple people I've spoken with, because he believed the rookie the better back. Obviously that transition was never made, but it set the stage for what happened this offseason in that the Dolphins were more aggressive than they expected to be in trying to re-sign Miller (they offered $5 million per season) but were not going to step beyond that for a player some in the building were lukewarm about. Understand, new coach Adam Gase liked Miller based on tape study. But not to the extent Houston did. The Texans signed Miller for $6.5 million per year average.

Fallout: Either the Texans or the Dolphins are right. The Texans believe Miller is a bell cow back that can challenge for the rushing title. They believe him a 1,200-1,400 yard per season back, who is also a threat out of the backfield. That's what they're paying for. The Dolphins believe C.J. Anderson was a better back than Miller. So they liked somebody else's player more than their own. And having neither, they've shrugged and believe they'll draft someone and/or sign a back-of-free agency guy like Arian Foster (do not forget this name) and will be fine. Foster, by the way, will visit the team this week. This is a good draft for running backs, by the way. The Dolphins think they can find one as good or better than Miller in that draft.


http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...lout-of-miami-dolphins-personnel-opinons.html
 
Or course Campbell did not like Miller, he's not going to take on contact and break tackles like Ajayi. He is not the receiving threat that Jay is either.
 
Surprised Maxwell/Grimes wasn't mentioned since he is needed right off the bat more than Kiko.
 
By the way, the OV camp likes to point out he was really a 10.5 sack guy last season, not 7.5 as the statistics say. The reason is Vernon had three sacks stripped away by penalties in the defensive backfield.
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I'm guessing OV and his camp forgot to subtract the multiple times he made the defense stay on the field with rougher the passer penalties on 3rd down that negated an incomplete pass or an int. So no OV, you are not a 10.5 sack DE.
 
Wow, interesting article. For those of you who are someplace and unable to click the link (perhaps you just installed the latest awful Apple IOS update that doesn't allow you to open links lol), here is a summary:

-Dan Campbell specifically was not a big Lamar Miller fan, and liked Ajayi more. That colored the organization's opinion of Lamar.

-The coaches "liked but did not love" Vernon, "There was one tape session among coaches last year, I'm told, in which those present spent five minutes breaking down all the things the player did wrong or poorly". YUP, that sounds like our OV (and how our previous coaches spent their time).

-The Dolphins misjudged their assessment on Rishard Matthews...but in the process landed Landry and Parker.

-The Dolphins coaches like Mario Williams MORE than OV (not as a consolation prize). They are genuinely HAPPY to have Williams in place of OV.

-The Eagles were SUPER down on Kiko Alonso, enough to let him leave on the final year of a rookie contract. The Dolphins are very optimistic about Kiko. One of them is wrong.

I think more will leak about the dysfunction in the previous Dolphins regime (heck we already know Philbin didn't like Tannehill, Campbell didn't like Miller, and more). It's been a slow offseason, so I love eating rumormill info like this up. :up:
 
Don't forget, Matthews was seen as a backup til his final season, J Taylor was seen as Miaami's 2nd best CB and Parker wasn't as good as Jennings and played only when injury forced him in. Remember when the entire D got made at Coyle's scheme/play calls? Or when all 11 O starters could see the called play wouldn't work but Lazor wouldn't allow audibles? Yup, dysfunctional.. I like that word.
A lot is justifiably made of talent, but I don't think enough blame can be given to Philbin and his train wreck. It's the ABSENCE of Philbin et al that gives me some optimism.
 
Aqua and Orange said:
Wow, interesting article. For those of you who are someplace and unable to click the link (perhaps you just installed the latest awful Apple IOS update that doesn't allow you to open links lol), here is a summary:

-Dan Campbell specifically was not a big Lamar Miller fan, and liked Ajayi more. That colored the organization's opinion of Lamar.

-The coaches "liked but did not love" Vernon, "There was one tape session among coaches last year, I'm told, in which those present spent five minutes breaking down all the things the player did wrong or poorly". YUP, that sounds like our OV (and how our previous coaches spent their time).

-The Dolphins misjudged their assessment on Rishard Matthews...but in the process landed Landry and Parker.

-The Dolphins coaches like Mario Williams MORE than OV (not as a consolation prize). They are genuinely HAPPY to have Williams in place of OV.

-The Eagles were SUPER down on Kiko Alonso, enough to let him leave on the final year of a rookie contract. The Dolphins are very optimistic about Kiko. One of them is wrong.

I think more will leak about the dysfunction in the previous Dolphins regime (heck we already know Philbin didn't like Tannehill, Campbell didn't like Miller, and more). It's been a slow offseason, so I love eating rumormill info like this up. :up:
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No reason to not like Miller. Dude showed up every time he was on the field last season. I don't care if you juke-out or run over mother****ers, yards are yards.
 
Putting down the fans in favor of aggrandizing the "professionals" is old and tired...and disingenuous.

The FACT is that there are probably 15-20 members here who, given the information and reasearch available to the front office, would have done a better job drafting and in free agency than Jeff Ireland.

They have more tools at their disposal, yet the failure rate in the draft generally is around 50% (off the top of my head, based on something I read a while back). That is PATHETIC, given the resources these guys have to use. What's even more unforgivable is poor free agent signings, when you actually have a history on a guy at the pro level.

Don't give these tools more credit than they deserve.
 
SCLSU Mud Dogs said:
No reason to not like Miller. Dude showed up every time he was on the field last season. I don't care if you juke-out or run over mother****ers, yards are yards.
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it all depend on who coaches like and fit their style of play.. I like ov more than miller. but they both are good. but I would like see Ajayi play. I think he may be better than miller. everytime we get new coach. this is what happen to player we draft from last coaching staff.
 
I still think the Giants were crazy to give OV that kind of contract... I don't trust the Dolphins FO for much, but I think they are right in saying OV is a complimentary type player, not a genuine difference maker worthy of the 2nd most expensive contract in the league.
 
NaboCane said:
Putting down the fans in favor of aggrandizing the "professionals" is old and tired...and disingenuous.

The FACT is that there are probably 15-20 members here who, given the information and reasearch available to the front office, would have done a better job drafting and in free agency than Jeff Ireland.

They have more tools at their disposal, yet the failure rate in the draft generally is around 50% (off the top of my head, based on something I read a while back). That is PATHETIC, given the resources these guys have to use. What's even more unforgivable is poor free agent signings, when you actually have a history on a guy at the pro level.

Don't give these tools more credit than they deserve.
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I hear what you're trying to say, I just think you're looking in the wrong direction. If I understand you correctly you're blaming the professionals for 50% rate of failure or success, and then claiming that 20 forum members could probably do a much better job. So, with 32 teams making up the league and half of that dysfunctional, according to your "success rate" you claim 50% of the front offices are dysfunctional. Maybe, just maybe it's the athletes that are dysfunctional. Understand these guys are the big men on campus and have been that pretty much all their lives. They are spoiled and never held accountable starting from their early teenage years being canonized in their home towns and high schools. The really good athletes are in the one or 2% on their campuses. Do you see where I'm going with this. The real trick in the draft as I see it is not picking a good athlete, it's picking a decent human being. The odds are against you when that in this pool. Let's talk about Marino. Do you think we got him because we were geniuses? No, the truth was his character was called in the question before the draft about marijuana use which caused him to fall like a rock into the lap of the second best team in the league that year. It's about character character character. And that's not an easy thing to judge obviously. If you ask me the Dolphins would be better served by hiring a few sports psychologists.
 
FinfanInBuffalo said:
10 carries for 12 yards is "showing up"?
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Don't be a douche bag.

Only a fool would take one game in a whole season and say "look at how bad he was!"

And if you fail to recognize the impact he had for the offense, it's not my fault you're blind.
 
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