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Draft Pains.....

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Coral Reefer, Jan 17, 2016.

  1. Coral Reefer

    Coral Reefer Premium Member

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    Watching players the Phins have screwed up on by passing over them in the draft has been painful for as long as I can remember.
    Kuechly is one of them that stings the most though.

    This guy was a can't miss prospect at a position we sorely needed.
    Sure enough he's well on his way to what could be a HOF career.

    Yes all drafts you can do a hindsight is 20/20 list. That is not relevant here. The Kuechly pick was obvious and no one is surprised by this kids huge success in the NFL.

    Yeah we needed a QB but we needed LB help just as much. You had a can't miss prospect at LB versus a QB that hadn't even been playing the position throughout his college career. It was a reach folks.
    Nothing against Tannehilll but we screwed the pooch yet again.

    I know this thread offers nothing constructive for the future.
    It's just venting about more lost opportunities.

    I hope this new staff gets their act together and makes smart choices to build a solid team.


    Carry on.
     
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  2. jw3102

    jw3102 season ticket holder

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    Going into the 2012 draft, I wanted them to draft Kuechly in the first round and Wilson in the second round. Unfortunately they drafted Tannehill and we still don't have a decent MLB four years later.
     
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  3. cbrad

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    The 2010 draft was easily as bad as missing on Keuchly and Wilson. First, we trade back to miss on Earl Thomas (we still don't have a FS). Then we take Odrick and Misi instead of Gronk (who went after both! and I remember many fans saying we should take Gronk). To top it off, we pass on Jimmy Graham later on (took John Jerry instead well above him). Oh, and in the 4th, right after we took A. J. Edds, Geno Atkins went haha! Seriously, that was a real f'up!
     
  4. jw3102

    jw3102 season ticket holder

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    The reality is the FO has been pretty awful in the draft for over a decade. That is why they are always over spending in free agency in an attempt to improve the team. It has been shown time after time that trying to buy a championship team in the NFL doesn't work.

    The best teams in the league build through the draft and only add a free agents or two to help them get over the hump on the way to the SB.
     
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  5. Coral Reefer

    Coral Reefer Premium Member

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    No argument.
    You can go back into mulitiple drafts under multiple regimes and see massive mistakes.
    Passing on Kuechly for me was just the one that really strikes me the most.
     
  6. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    Just going by my own personal prefereces, Tannehill was one of the top 5 QB prospects coming out in the last decade when he was drafted. The pick was the right one, no matter how good any defensive player from the draft is or will turn out to be.
     
  7. Phins_Fan_87

    Phins_Fan_87 Phins and Heat fan Club Member

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    we need to draft this guy[video=twitter;688863471945912320]https://twitter.com/Andy_Staples/status/688863471945912320[/video]
     
  8. adamprez2003

    adamprez2003 Senior Member

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    We needed a QB. We made the right choice that year. We realm haven't blown too many first round picks. Dion Jordan is about the only pure bust we had in the last seven years
     
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  9. dgfred

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    I remember sitting in my den when we drafted Ginn... so wanted Quinn. Of course he stunk it up plenty but I couldn't understand that pick at all.
     
  10. Hellion

    Hellion Crash Club Member

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    Not drafting Quinn over Ginn wasn't the problem. When Cameron passed on him after working him out and watching him at ND I was thrilled we didn't draft him. But we should have taken Patrick Willis, it was a position of need and bpa at the time.
     
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  11. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    I wanted Quinn so badly too. Loved him in college. Not sure if he really wasn't all that talented, or that he was just put into the wrong situations and ruined. Either way, I HATED the Ted Ginn pick.
     
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  12. dgfred

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    Understood... but WHY Ginn? Didn't he have a hurt foot too?
     
  13. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    Because the guys running the team had no idea what they were doing. Remember, they took Beck in the second round as well. That draft day was my lowest point as a Dolphins fan, I think. I was so depressed that we had thrown those high picks away. And.....of course, we all know what happened that season. You could certainly argue that the Ginn pick was the start of the road that led us to Bill Parcells, and the Wildcat nonsense, and then everything else that followed that we're STILL digging ourseleves out of to this day.
     
  14. finsincebirth

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    It's threads like this that are really starting to make me hate dolphins fans. If we took Kuechly the circle jerk would have been "Once again the Dolphins fail to prioritize the most important position in the game and take a 1st round QB. This is just like Fletcher over Brees, Brown over Rodgers, Long over Ryan". Now it's "Clearly we should have picked the potential Hall of Famer, because it's not like the draft is a crapshoot or anything".

    I mean seriously this fanbase is nothing more than a bunch of miserable, whiny children. I don't think I'll ever get to see the Dolphins win another Super Bowl, wah. I miss the glory days of Dan Marino when we were winning playoff games and a potential Super Bowl team every year, wah. This all comes with the territory of being a fan of a team. Go ask Cubs fans or even pre-04 Red Sox fans if they feel sorry for you guys.

    /rant
     
  15. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    I've been a fan of both the Fins and Cubs for 25+ years.
     
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  16. P h i N s A N i T y

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    Coral liked it better when we didn't address the QB position. Qbs not as good as Brady, Rodgers shouldn't be valued anyway, not above elite position players.... Remember the glory days when we had Zach? It didn't matter who the QB was !

    We we could be sitting pretty with a luxury pick like Keuchly, which would more than make up for all the extra turnovers any other QB would produce behind the leagues worst O-line. Someone like McCown would have been fine. Keuchly would clean it up.
     
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  17. 2socks

    2socks Rebuilding Since 1973

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    Will never forget that day we unveiled the wildcat - Kicked New Englands A$$
     
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    Im a fin and toronto maple leaf fan :(
     
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    My username is a reference to that game and those days
     
  20. finfansince72

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    I don't have a problem with us drafting Tannehill where we did. He's shown flashes of being worthy of that pick. We needed a Qb, honestly we should have been able to pick up a decent LB in free agency or the draft in later rounds. Carolina is really fortunate that they had the #1 pick when Cam was available. If they had a mediocre Qb and a HOF LB in Kuechley they'd be watching the games at home this week too. You need a Qb to win, its not even an arguable point anymore. Even noodle arm playing in a wheelchair Manning had to make a couple of big plays yesterday to win.
     
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  21. dgfred

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    Plus Luck stayed in school to keep from going to Carolina it looked like to me. They also got lucky nobody took Kuechley earlier.
     
  22. Alex44

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    I dont think its that we missed on so and so...a lot of teams miss on a LOT of great players actually. Its the fact that we haven't even gained production from the guys we took instead.
     
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  23. Onehondo

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    To me the real slap in the face from the Ginn selection were fans being told that the Dolphins selected the whole Ginn family as if that had any relevance.
     
  24. dolphin25

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    I really really wanted Earl Thomas.
     
  25. NCPhinFan

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    I always wondered why they didn't draft a QB to be waiting in the wings after Marino retired. I was young then so I really don't remember how we ended up with Fiedler...
     
  26. dolphin25

    dolphin25 Well-Known Member

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    They drafted 1 or 2 that were decent. One ended up going to the Lions, I forget the other ones name now.
     
  27. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    He played well coming off the bench when the Jaguars destroyed Miami in the playoffs and Wanny thought he was better than Trent Green.
     
  28. SuhMe

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    Lmao, so true, Our fans suck. Just look at the stadium when the team's struggling, and then look at stadium like M&T Bank even in a year like this when they suck, it's night and day.
     
  29. Unlucky 13

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    The Fins took Scott Mitchell in the 4th round in 1990 (just before free agency became a reality). And yes, he went on to join the Lions the year after Marino was hurt. He was the only QB the team drafted higher than the 6th round while Dan was around.

    Its kind of interesting that the only QB the Fins have ever drafted who turned into a good backup is Don Strock. Other teams do it all the time, but our franchise, in 50 years, hasn't hit on one since 1973.
     
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  30. dgfred

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    Whew... S.Mitchell was absolutely terrible later on.
     
  31. Unlucky 13

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    The media hated him and made fun of him, but he wasn't horrible. He had some good years as the Lions QB. He was a huge guy, similar to Big Ben but without the athleticism, and he looked really akward when he had to run. When he had time in the pocket, he could make a lot of throws.
     
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  32. dgfred

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    Yeah... but near the end he was bad. Looked like he was a little gun-shy. I don't blame him. He couldn't dodge like Big Ben.

    I liked him as a QB for most of his career tho.
     

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