Your...Day 2 prediction

[Dolphin39]

People really want to spend the first two picks on OL? I just dont get ya'll. LB or WR.

I accidentally hit the thumbs down when I was trying to hit thumbs up.

I agree with you on getting another WR. I felt we should have gotten Cooks or Dix and picked up James in RD 2.

 

[TheWalrus]

For the first time in my life, I couldn't care less what they do.

D- owners do not make A hires at head coach and GM. They make, at best, C or C- hires. And those hires do not draft A players. At least not on purpose. They draft C players. And that's probably what James will be.

It's a long, inevitable, predictable train of fail leading back to the Gargoyle. Until he's gone, we'll never made the Gus Malzahn-type hire we need. That's an A hire, and he can't swing it. Eventually he'll tire of Philbin but want to keep Hickey and that will lead to some mediocrity or retread. And on and on.

Part of the reason I fell in love with the draft and the strategy of football was to give myself something else within the game to focus on. No sane person can focus all their energy on this team year upon year, decade upon decade. So I enjoy watching the draft no matter what the Dolphins do. And that's my day 2 projection. I'll eat pizza and watch the draft and enjoy that. And the Dolphins will do what they can to ruin it for me. It's our own little Mamushka.

 

[Mike13]

OG, TE Or LB.

 

[mrbunglez]

Playmakers. One of them being Jeremy Hill RB from LSU. :)

 

[Buff]

More cornfeds and more busts.

Dolphins gonna phin.

Well, feel free to follow the Browns..

 

[LDaniel7]

It's ironic that people are bagging on Hickey after suffering supporting Ireland through countless draft and FA screw ups... and actually pretending he had a clue. Over and over again.

Everyone on here that gave Ireland the benefit of doubt when he kept stuffing the roster w. poor to average players, and non-stop mediocrity at skill positions, ought to give Hickey at least a year to develop a real roster. When the cupboards are completely bare at certain places on the roster, like OL, and sadly lacking playmakers across the board -- and now missing draft choices because of poor decisions -- you can't expect it to be fixed overnight.

Yes, Hickey MAY have been able to move down, acquire another 3rd or 4th round pick, and still get his guy. BUT THAT WAS NOT GUARANTEED. And if he was convinced that James was "the man" to fix RT the quickest, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. How many 3rd and 4th round picks have made impacts in the Ireland drafts? How many have been hidden on the roster in hopes they'll develop -- and are still trash?

Yeah, my point exactly. The entire reason why Hickey can't gamble w. picks as much as you might want him to. The previous GM fell in love w. mediocre players and then tried to make up for it by gambling w. injured and project players.

How'd that work out?

Some of you guys, geez. I told you last year when Ireland threw all that money at Hartline to be the number 2 WR -- he ain't got it. No eye for playmakers. And then when he went out and trashed an 11 player draft... NO three down impact players at all, leaving so many playmakers and good OL on the board. Man. Never seen the like.

Give Hickey some time before you jump ship.

LD

 

[AccordOn13z]

Allen Robinson PLEASE!! I don't care who else. Terrance West in the 3rd would be nice too.

2nd WR Robinson or TE Austin or MLB Borland

3rd RB West or RB Mason or Guard

 

[Buff]

2 or 3 more starters. Regardless of position. Get drafted, practice, start from day 1. That's a good start

 

[phinfan1983]

OG, TE Or LB.

Concur with this.

 

[DKphin]

Fins trade up to finish oline and get sua filo G ucla

I would like this also, but from the stupidity we witnessed when Hickey did not trade down and get me more picks before he picked James, I do not think our new GM has the wisdom to do a deal like that.

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Trade all of our picks for draft picks in the next draft.


Less of a prediction and more of wishful thinking. Because why ****ing bother with this regime.

:lol2:

 

[rayfinkle1334]

After writing out 4-5 paragraphs, spelling out the word "with" a bit too much to handle?

 

[Awsi Dooger]

D- owners do not make A hires at head coach and GM. They make, at best, C or C- hires. And those hires do not draft A players. At least not on purpose. They draft C players. And that's probably what James will be.

I agree. That's been my theme for years, that the people atop the franchise simply aren't special, and it regulates everything below.

Anyway, my prediction is that many previously highly rated players will slide but we won't take advantage of it. Even if you want to exclude quarterback, three players that had obvious potential to drop were Lee, Van Noy and Kouandijo. I mentioned those guys in a thread a couple of weeks ago, that I would try to use strategy accordingly. As of Thursday, Lee seemed like the lowest chance to make it to 50. So he was a sensible first round pick, IMO. Then I would have prioritized Van Noy at 50 and hope that Kouandijo made it to the third round.

All of those guys were mocked into the Top 10 at this time last year. It's a lazy way to stumble into a huge payoff.

I still like Kirksey of Iowa. He's probably a third round type. Ben Gardner in the 4th or 5th. Wouldn't want to risk 6th with him.

BTW, there was a thread here mocking anyone who would want Bortles at 19.

 

[joenhre]

Best skill position players available. WR, TE, LB, FS and RB. Also with both Grimes and Finnegan being over 30, CB needs to be strongly considered. No matter what people want to believe the other teams in the East have improved this off-season. Hickey needs to hit on these picks with some play makers. If not the Dolphins could very easily be looking at last place in the division this year and in the near future.

 

[finomenal]

Day 2? More cornfed and a blocking TE. We have to bring ANOTHER blocking TE to compete with the blocking TE we drafted last year, right?

I hate the decision makers on this team so much.

 

[jim1]

D- owners do not make A hires at head coach and GM. They make, at best, C or C- hires. And those hires do not draft A players. At least not on purpose. They draft C players. And that's probably what James will be.

It's a long, inevitable, predictable train of fail leading back to the Gargoyle. Until he's gone, we'll never made the Gus Malzahn-type hire we need. That's an A hire, and he can't swing it. Eventually he'll tire of Philbin but want to keep Hickey and that will lead to some mediocrity or retread. And on and on.

Part of the reason I fell in love with the draft and the strategy of football was to give myself something else within the game to focus on. No sane person can focus all their energy on this team year upon year, decade upon decade. So I enjoy watching the draft no matter what the Dolphins do. And that's my day 2 projection. I'll eat pizza and watch the draft and enjoy that. And the Dolphins will do what they can to ruin it for me. It's our own little Mamushka.

This is particularly well written, and it resonates. Joe Robbie was cheap but extremely shrewd, and the Dolphins won. Wayne Huizenga was well intentioned but clueless and the Dolphins lost. Stephen Ross is well intentioned and clueless and the Dolphins lose. As the river flows down stream from the source you end up with a G.M. that takes a 2nd rd talent to fill a need position at #19 and passes on a trade down to get an extra 3rd in what might be the deepest draft ever, for a team with major holes that could use the extra pick in a major way.

In any year a 3rd round pick is nothing to laugh at- this year the draft is so deep that it's pretty much like a 2nd round pick. Anything can happen, and of course some other team could have taken James if we traded down. Possible, but not likely. A good team, a good GM realizes that and trades down, gets their man Ja'Wuan James and gets a very valuable extra 3rd round pick. We didn't. It's very tiring to be a Miami Dolphins fan. Or maybe the word is draining.