Dolphins with out a doubt overachieved this year, we really didn't have the team to beat Philly but we did thanks to exceptional play from Fitzpatrick and Parker and a half decent secondary made up of cast offs and UFA, Colts and Jets both have far more talent and should of beat us, poor coaching and lack of a proper game plan on there part being the reason they lost to us.
The cards Flores was given to play should of made it almost impossible to win more than a game or 2, what team changes most of it's starting offensive line right after the preseason ended and starts the season with an offensive line that doesn't know anything of the game plan or had any time to jell together.
Saying we underachieved couldn't be further from the truth.
2019 was a tear down year where we jettisoned or didn't resign our starting QB both our DE's lost our RT to FA traded our franchise LT traded our disgruntled CB/FS traded away a starting linebacker and a handful of others all to start a rebuild that starts with the draft and also clears over 64 mil in cap space and will continue to clear even more space in 2020 with a few high priced players left due to contract reason
Draft position is everything dropping down 3 or 4 spots when your that high is like a middle to bottom 2nd round pick if you were to trade down, who doesn't want another 2nd round pick. Talking about pick 2 or 3 and it's a high 2nd round pick.
Can't blame Flores for trying to win every game he can it all sticks and will follow him his whole career, also can't blame Grier for trying to get as high a draft pick as he can it will give him more ammo to rebuild in 2020. It's a weird year for fans can't blame either side I'm conflicted myself half the time I want a win half the time I want a better pick for the future, with 3 games left I've seen enough to know the coaching staff may be really good so I'm hoping for at least a top 5 pick but I still can't root for a loss.
I'm not 100% sure we are after a QB, we just spent a 2nd round pick on Rosen in 2019 and he was a top 10 pick in 2018, if we pick a QB with our 1st pick it's like throwing away that 2nd, (Rosen value would plummet) and I'm not sure if any of the QB's coming out could do a better job than Rosen did given how poor our offensive line is. Smart money would say continue to develop Rosen and build him an offensive line,
I liked Tua and the speed he had reading a defense and his accuracy but his hip injury has to make you hit the pause button and at least consider trying to move another asset (1st round pick) into 2021. I wasn't 100% sold the Dolphins staff would like his size to start with, also half scared they do like Herbert and he is another Ryan Tannehill, haven't really looked at him just going by what some guru's are saying.
Unsure what the staff wants as far as a QB goes, know the offensive line is the worst in the NFL and will need major work, minimum 3 possible 4 new starters 2 tackles and a guard, really could replace all 5 pushing most back to 2nd string, defense line isn't any better we need a DT that can push the pocket and 1 or 2 DE's. That's just the lines then looking at the linebackers we could use a good one, CB, FS, RB the list goes on and on, I'm starting to think the best thing the Dolphins could do with that 1st pick is move it down and grab another 2nd, draft looks deeper than most drafts and the Dolphins have so many needs, biggest need is a great draft and a great FA period to lay the foundation.
Seems all I can think about is the draft and how our rebuild is going to go.