Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I think everything will hinge on what you think of Rosenhaus. I am not sold on him as a talent evaluator, however he had some very eye opening answers to some questions. One of the stations down here in South Florida has him on every week for their "Sunday Night Wrap" show and tonight for whatever reason I tuned in as I wanted to learn more about what the Dolphins were doing.
1. Jake Long: "Safest bet in this draft, Miami has their LT for the next 10 years." I have heard this all before, nothing new here. Till I see him take the field and play, I will never be sold that he was the most talented player in the draft but whatever.
2. Jason Taylor: Now I find this part rather disturbing. I am one of those people that feels Miami could be competitive in 2 years...not a SB contender but simply competitive, like they might be able to win almost any week and teams are not looking forward to facing them...you know, competitive. But Drew stated that Taylor is all but gone and even though a deal could not be worked out before or during the draft that there are several teams that would talk seriously about parting with a pretty high pick in the 2009 draft to acquire Jason Taylor. Drew went on to say that the relationship between Taylor and the Miami Dolphins is terrible right now, and he wants out of here ASAP. Now I don't like this because I feel Taylor is top5 at his position if not top3 and while his shelf life may not be long he still is in great shape and 3-4 more years is not out of the question. While his skills coule erode, he probably will still be awfully good, and could really help Miami. The Dolphins drafted a lot of DL including Sterling, they can't all be on the roster so Jason will be traded prior to training camp...those are Drew's words.
3. Shawn Murphy: Likely going to start for Miami. So the OL is shaping up to look like this. LT-Long, LG-J.SMiley, C-Satele, RG-Murphy, RT-V.Carey...and they have a lot of competition for the back up jobs with some wiggle likely for the starters as well. Murphy runs under a 5 seconds in his 40 time, 1 of only 2 in the draft at his position so he is pretty athletic. Carey is a bit of a finese guy as well so the OL is going to be interesting and of course Sporano is an OL Coach form Dallas so you can expect he will get the most out of this bunch. And no i am not comparing them to the Dallas Cowboys OL...not even close.
4. Chad Henne: Rosenhaus thinks he will start for Miami this season. I have looked at Henne in his new uniform and I gotta say just form the looks alone, this guy looks like he was made to play the position. I am not going to bash John Beck but I have to think having Long protect his blind side just like he did in college...gotta be fun for Henne to be in Miami right now.
Sorry, I don't have any written links here or video to pull form but I though Phins fans would be interested in some of this. He also mentioned the Bess kid at WR but he already has hisown thread going so no need to keep hyping a possession WR. He mentioned the other one form Purdue as well, said there was some off the field issues but that he should have been drafted.
1. Jake Long: "Safest bet in this draft, Miami has their LT for the next 10 years." I have heard this all before, nothing new here. Till I see him take the field and play, I will never be sold that he was the most talented player in the draft but whatever.
2. Jason Taylor: Now I find this part rather disturbing. I am one of those people that feels Miami could be competitive in 2 years...not a SB contender but simply competitive, like they might be able to win almost any week and teams are not looking forward to facing them...you know, competitive. But Drew stated that Taylor is all but gone and even though a deal could not be worked out before or during the draft that there are several teams that would talk seriously about parting with a pretty high pick in the 2009 draft to acquire Jason Taylor. Drew went on to say that the relationship between Taylor and the Miami Dolphins is terrible right now, and he wants out of here ASAP. Now I don't like this because I feel Taylor is top5 at his position if not top3 and while his shelf life may not be long he still is in great shape and 3-4 more years is not out of the question. While his skills coule erode, he probably will still be awfully good, and could really help Miami. The Dolphins drafted a lot of DL including Sterling, they can't all be on the roster so Jason will be traded prior to training camp...those are Drew's words.
3. Shawn Murphy: Likely going to start for Miami. So the OL is shaping up to look like this. LT-Long, LG-J.SMiley, C-Satele, RG-Murphy, RT-V.Carey...and they have a lot of competition for the back up jobs with some wiggle likely for the starters as well. Murphy runs under a 5 seconds in his 40 time, 1 of only 2 in the draft at his position so he is pretty athletic. Carey is a bit of a finese guy as well so the OL is going to be interesting and of course Sporano is an OL Coach form Dallas so you can expect he will get the most out of this bunch. And no i am not comparing them to the Dallas Cowboys OL...not even close.
4. Chad Henne: Rosenhaus thinks he will start for Miami this season. I have looked at Henne in his new uniform and I gotta say just form the looks alone, this guy looks like he was made to play the position. I am not going to bash John Beck but I have to think having Long protect his blind side just like he did in college...gotta be fun for Henne to be in Miami right now.
Sorry, I don't have any written links here or video to pull form but I though Phins fans would be interested in some of this. He also mentioned the Bess kid at WR but he already has hisown thread going so no need to keep hyping a possession WR. He mentioned the other one form Purdue as well, said there was some off the field issues but that he should have been drafted.
