Footage from Marino's Rookie Training Camp QB Battle Vs. Woodley

From 0:00 to 0:24 - look how effortlessly he slings the ball. Wow.

 

My 2 cents. I'm not confident this guy in the video has what it takes to be very good.

 

I can't believe we just spent a late 1st rounder on a guy who's likely to waste his contract on blow & partying.
We should've just traded up for Art Schlichter the previous year when we had the chance or jumped ahead of NY for Ken O'Brien.
Maybe we'd be better off sucking for Esiason. That guy is gonna be a stud!

 

Woodley says he's ready for an All-Pro season - let's see what he's got!! He and Cefalo seem to have a good connection going. That 13 kid should probably sit for a couple /three years and learn from Woodley first before we put him in.

 

Heard he had a coke problem. Does not bode well for living in Miami.

 

So this was 1983. Woodley did start that year, but Marino took over in the 6th game that year. I wonder if things will be similar with Tannehill.

 

I agree. Woodley's only 25 with an 18-5-1 record the past 2 years and helped take us from a WildCard birth to the SB last year.

QB wasn't a need. What we needed was a receiver! We drafted Duper last year, and he didn't do ****; now we use an 8th rounder on some bum named Mark Clayton when we should've taken Henry Ellard in the 1st. Our GM is clueless!!! My grandma could draft better than this with that young kid with the funny looking hair setting up her board! Have airplanes banners been invented yet, because if they have I'm seriously renting one out. Who's with me?!

 

Actually I made the same allusion and comparison in a Club thread .What triggered it was the comment made by some players that the ball just whooshes out of his hand with a similar power and naturalness of Marinos throws.

They also share a supreme confidence in themselves .
I was accused of being a helpless homer and that may be so but hope is the fuel that keeps long suffering fans going

 

WOW TC used to be in Vero Beach???? That is far from Miami

 

We made up for it by moving the stadium far away from Miami.

 

I agree! The game has surely passed Shula by. I think we better fire his *** before it's too late.

 

They should have went "Wrong Way For Elway" the season before.

 

We better pick up that up and comer from the NY Giants, whats his name? Bill Parcell I think.

 

I wanna do some rails with #13.

 

Lol..

 

I did some with Mike Miller the other night

 

The video description says its "Biscayne College", now known as St Thomas.

 

My recollection is that there were some immediate "wows" with Marino. There were reports of how he was breaking WRs fingers and how much harder he threw than Woodley or Strock. We went into that draft looking for DL help, but Shula saw Marino as too good to pass up that late. The main difference was that the fans believed in Shula and they were coming off of a SB loss so there was no pressure to start Dan immediately.

 

Well, what's amazing to me is that I was there...in that crowd somewhere... It was at Biscayne college. The clip at Vero was the previous days' scrimmage... I didn't make the scrimmage...dammit...had to work...

At any rate, that was then, this is now...if Tanny does some of the things that Danny could do...we're all in for a treat...

 

Yeah just re-watched. It showed the graphic for "Biscayne College" for less than a 1/2 second at time :47. At 1:02 I saw Vero Beach, maybe it was Vero Beach Newscenter?

 

0:34, WTF kinda drop back is that?

 

That is 100% correct. Namath came very close though.

 

MrClean, would you put Moon close behind those 2?

 

Different eras of football. Rookie starters are now the norm, not the exception. There's too much money tied up into them now, even with the rookie wage scale.

 

That's a very good point that I keep forgetting about when I try to make the case for T-Hill starting right away. He is very talented, but he really is still green.

 

Sometimes you forget how spectacular that release was. Damn, why doesn't NFLN play more reruns and classic games??

 

I wasn't even a spermatozoa back then.

 

From 1983-1999 - look how effortlessly he slings the ball. Wow.

 

I'm not sure I agree with that.
Nearly a third of the NFL's backups make roughly as much per year as Tannehill, Gabbert, and Locker.
Close to half make roughly as much as Ponder.
Dalton makes the same or less than probably 20 team's backups. His own backup makes more.

 

I wasn't even a thought

 

Unless my math and method are wrong (which is entirely possible), I believe you're mistaken, Desides.

Dan Marino's rookie contract: 4 year/$2.1 million ($525k/year)
Average '83 NFL team's salary: $8,098,400 {no salary cap back then}
Using the above number, #27 pick Marino's average salary represented 6.5% of the NFL's average team salary.


2012 Salary cap: $120,600,000
#8 pick Tannehill represents 2.6%
#1 pick Luck: 4.6%
#35 pick Dalton: 1.1%

So, compared to cap space/total team payroll, Miami actually had over twice as much tied up in Marino than Tannehill, 1.4 times more than Luck, and 6 times as much as Dalton.