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According to Overthecap.com, Miami is the #1 team with Cap space at $77 Million dollars. How should Miami utilize that to improve this team? I have a few thoughts:
  • Sign TE Gesicki and Smythe to 4 year contracts
  • Search for a FA Offensive Lineman or two - top talent
  • Need another top caliber WR to pair with Waddle - Parker et all are just too injury prone to be reliable - This WR corp needs an enema.
  • Possibly a RB or this should be a priority in the draft (Personally, I think we use top draft pick to get a RB on the cheap and use him in his prime and then on to a new one, I know this is harsh but RBs do not last long)
 
Going into this season I was hoping they would resign Gesicki and Ogbah if both of them showed they deserved the money they both will be looking for in free agency. I still feel that way. I figured Long was drafted to replace Smythe and possibly Gesicki, long term.

Right now we still don’t know what they have in Long because he just hasn’t played this season. Smythe on the other hand is having his best season since being drafted and I would love to see them keep both Smythe and Gesicki after this season. Obviously they are able to see the development of Long during the week and he may still be the permanent replacement for either Gesicki or Smythe long term but right now hopefully both Gesicki and Smythe will be Dolphins when the 2022 season begins.
 
---Re-sign Gesicki and Smythe and Ogbah

---Sign Terron Armstead to play LT, and Wyatt Teller for guard.
 
FanEnSpain said:
---Re-sign Gesicki and Smythe and Ogbah

---Sign Terron Armstead to play LT, and Wyatt Teller for guard.
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Get a decent O-line coach in here, and I believe we have plenty of guards TBH.

Probably a bigger need at the C position, depending how Dieter looks coming back.
 
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DolfanISS said:
Interesting, not being a smart *** and maybe you’ve posted it in the past but who would you play where? Just curious!
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For me, it isn't necessarily an issue of who plays where, so much as getting an O-line coach that can teach technique, and assignment responsibility, to form a cohesive unit.
 
DolfanISS said:
Interesting, not being a smart *** and maybe you’ve posted it in the past but who would you play where? Just curious!
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I played football throughout my life and even two years on the collegiate level. With that said I am no offensive line expert but I know from all my practices and games in my life that the Oline unit is a unit that is very hard to handle as a coach, obviously because if the foundation flounders the house usually comes down. Again, in my experiences being involved with the teams I have been on, usually if guys are being played out of position there is a lot of confusion, missed assignments and then comes the finger pointing which leads to a lot of bad feelings with the unit which spreads to other teammates and then coaches start pointing the fingers at each other. It is very fragile to handle because Olinemen are very proud players but also can lose their confidence very quickly. And that's why in my opinion you MUST have a bona fide top notch quality coach who can coach up that unit. And he MUST be a very strong personality who's not afraid to face his peers especially his head coach. He needs to be a therapist and be able to get into the mind of his players.

With that said, Liam was not drafted to be a LT, I think his strength is at Guard. Although we drafted Jackson in the first round and failed at LT he seems to be progressing on the inside. Yes, he's being paid LT money but if he continues to improve let's see what he can give us because even decent Guards don't grow on trees. It could be a position we may not have to address immediately if he can work out. Unlike some around here I think Dieter is solid and was also improving until his injury. I think we can have something with him. I love Hunt and a few of the backups. I am done with Davis. Again, this unit can improve with a couple of added players especially a LT, but we need a major league mind coaching up this unit otherwise everything I stated in my opinion means nothing. And for that fact everyone else's opinion also.
 
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