Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I am gung ho for Miami and this upcoming draft. I will be at the Stadium for Draft Day or wherever Miami is holding it this year, i assume it will be at the stadium.
It looks like to me that Miami would like to trade down out of #1 pick. most teams desire thius and I feel pretty strongly that Miami has but one dance partner in the top 10 in order to do this with. The Baltimore Ravens have a desire to draft a QB now that McNair has retired..Boller is not the lng term solution and if you own Boller in any dynasty league you are automatically expelled as a credible neutral POV on the matter...and Troy Smith owners can just sit the bleep down.
When you look at Baltimore they have the next couple of seasons set at their skill positions minus QB...Clayton and Williams at WR, Heap at TE, McGahee at RB...this is not a bad group of players at the skill positions...but the need a QB. The key to them moving up and trading with Miami will likely be the draft mindset of the Atlanta Falcons. Because th Ravens will call them 1st and try and get into the #3 slot...Baltimore wants out of the #8 spot desperately but a lot hinges on Atlanta. If the Falcons will not work a trade with Baltimore then it is likely they will assume that Atlanta is taking Matt Ryan. if that is the case and I believe it is, then Baltimore will call Miami as St Louis IMO is set at #2, and they will see what it takes to move into the #1 slot.
One of the deals that would likely be put into play is 1.01 for the 1.08, Baltimore would send the 2008 2nd round pick (#38) and likely would have to send a 2009 2nd or 3rd rounder. Miami wants to rebuild and this would give them 4 of the top 60 picks with Miami already having the #57 pick in the 2nd round, Miami would slide down to #8 in a draft where OT are loaded up and have their pick of the next 3-4 on the board. Who cares about Jake Long? he has questions and Miami can still get a very good OT at #8 and have 3 2nd roudners to inject some talent and youth into this team.
Miami would actually have #8, #32, #38, #57, and they still have the 1st pick in the 3rd round too so that is #64 IIRC...I just don't believe Bill Parcells and crew are just going to walk up to the podium and take the #1 pick and select Jake Long this Saturday. i could be wrong and several of you are going to bash back pretty hard but Miami needs a lot of picks. This entire scenario doesn't have a lot of legs yet but there seems to be a lot of debate ont he radio by a couple of Dolphin Insiders so take things for what they are right now.
Also there is strong rumors about Jason Taylor, so if they trade him too, they could add another pick in there somewhere. I am opposed to trading Taylor btw but I am an optimist that thinks in 2-3 years when Miami is competitve that Taylor could still play a vital part in that process. premium DE are hard to come by.
It looks like to me that Miami would like to trade down out of #1 pick. most teams desire thius and I feel pretty strongly that Miami has but one dance partner in the top 10 in order to do this with. The Baltimore Ravens have a desire to draft a QB now that McNair has retired..Boller is not the lng term solution and if you own Boller in any dynasty league you are automatically expelled as a credible neutral POV on the matter...and Troy Smith owners can just sit the bleep down.
When you look at Baltimore they have the next couple of seasons set at their skill positions minus QB...Clayton and Williams at WR, Heap at TE, McGahee at RB...this is not a bad group of players at the skill positions...but the need a QB. The key to them moving up and trading with Miami will likely be the draft mindset of the Atlanta Falcons. Because th Ravens will call them 1st and try and get into the #3 slot...Baltimore wants out of the #8 spot desperately but a lot hinges on Atlanta. If the Falcons will not work a trade with Baltimore then it is likely they will assume that Atlanta is taking Matt Ryan. if that is the case and I believe it is, then Baltimore will call Miami as St Louis IMO is set at #2, and they will see what it takes to move into the #1 slot.
One of the deals that would likely be put into play is 1.01 for the 1.08, Baltimore would send the 2008 2nd round pick (#38) and likely would have to send a 2009 2nd or 3rd rounder. Miami wants to rebuild and this would give them 4 of the top 60 picks with Miami already having the #57 pick in the 2nd round, Miami would slide down to #8 in a draft where OT are loaded up and have their pick of the next 3-4 on the board. Who cares about Jake Long? he has questions and Miami can still get a very good OT at #8 and have 3 2nd roudners to inject some talent and youth into this team.
Miami would actually have #8, #32, #38, #57, and they still have the 1st pick in the 3rd round too so that is #64 IIRC...I just don't believe Bill Parcells and crew are just going to walk up to the podium and take the #1 pick and select Jake Long this Saturday. i could be wrong and several of you are going to bash back pretty hard but Miami needs a lot of picks. This entire scenario doesn't have a lot of legs yet but there seems to be a lot of debate ont he radio by a couple of Dolphin Insiders so take things for what they are right now.
Also there is strong rumors about Jason Taylor, so if they trade him too, they could add another pick in there somewhere. I am opposed to trading Taylor btw but I am an optimist that thinks in 2-3 years when Miami is competitve that Taylor could still play a vital part in that process. premium DE are hard to come by.
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