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Wonder if this had as much to do with wanting to see young reserves as it did an injury. As in, I wonder if they could push him to play if they wanted, but they'd really rather see Lamar Miller and maybe Marcus Thigpen get some touches.
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Not to mention CK, I believe it is an audition of sorts for HIM too.....to see if he can win over the primary ball carrying duties after Bush leaves this year (if that were the case)...
Okay do you think you have see enough of Thomas to say "Thats the #1 back" going into next year?? I certainly don't....Eop05 likes this. -
Ahh, another of Ireland's winners.
At least Miller will get to play more.
And perhaps Egnew might finally find himself activated too. In the immortal words of Homer Simpson "De-Fault, the two greatest words in the English language"NolesNPhinsFan and GARDENHEAD like this. -
Daniel Thomas is the very definition of "injury prone"
And as a result should not be in the mind of Jeff Ireland when looking ahead to his 2013 RB Depth.
We've suddenly become very thin there also.
IMO, our depth in 2013 now looks like:
RB: Lamar Miller
RB: Jonas Grey
RB: Marcus Thigpen
RB: Daniel Thomas***
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And Marcus Thigpen, wake me up when he takes a single snap as an actual tailback because to date I haven't seen one. And that includes preseason.Eop05 likes this. -
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And we traded UP for this charachter as well.
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In addition to being injury and fumble prone, he's also a really terrible runner.
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What ever happened to Steve Slaton?
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I still have no idea what Ireland saw in Thomas when he traded up for him. He's a bigger guy who can move laterally... I get that. However, he certainly doesn't play like a bigger RB. Meh.
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At the risk of opening up a discussion which will result in hurled insults flying everywhere, even knowing that today we would probably have Ryan Tannehill on roster regardless...would we rather have Ryan Mallett than Daniel Thomas? That was sort of the big controversy. When the Dolphins traded up to the bottom of the 2nd round everyone was sure it was for Mallett.
If Mallett were on roster in 2011...would he have played? Or would Matt Moore have played the season? Almost assuredly Tony Sparano would've been fired anyway. I'd say Mallett probably would've played toward the end of the year in the meaningless games, and I doubt he would have played particularly well. He was among those in that class I wouldn't have wanted to play too early, others being Blaine Gabbert and Colin Kaepernick. Jake Locker and Andy Dalton I just didn't like at all so I didn't really care when they played, early, late, whatever...if you have them on roster you made a mistake. That was my evaluation, that I'd rather have T.J. Yates. I certainly may have been wrong on Dalton. Or Locker. Or both. We've yet to really see on that.
But either way Mallett probably would have played some, not particularly well, Sparano still fired. Would Philbin still have been hired? I think so. I doubt the presence of late 2nd round pick Ryan Mallett would influence the Dolphins' decision on who to pick at head coach. And if Philbin was still hired (and therefore Sherman) then I believe Ryan Tannehill is still the Dolphins' pick in the 1st round. I don't doubt that at all. So we'd be looking at Ryan Mallett as a long term backup, a guy you try and polish up a little bit and maybe trade off. Sort of like what NE is doing. Thing is, even accepting that (which is disappointing relative to the promsie Mallett had coming out), he'd probably still be more valuable than Daniel Thomas. Go figure. -
Daniel Thomas has more rushing TDs, and as many total TDs as Matt Forte this season.
#scorer
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What makes matters worse is Daniel Thomas has been a complete non-factor, and Lamar Thomas rarely sees the field.NolesNPhinsFan likes this. -
Isn't that like saying we got Ryan Tannehill, Anthony Fasano and Akin Ayodele for a 1st & 4th?
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I took a very close look at some of his tape and really tallied his average yardage after contact, cataloguing whether he was hit by small defensive backs, linebackers or linemen. This is all stuff that shouldn't have been necessary as I thought it was apparent just on a normal viewing of his tape, but this is a message board and nobody believes anything anyone says unless the proof of it is waved in their face, and even then there's at least a 50% chance it will be denied. But anyway. Even I was shocked how poor he was at breaking tackles and getting yards after contact, against linebackers and even against corners.HardKoreXXX likes this. -
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I was wondering how soon before this became a (another) Jeff Ireland thread.
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Honestly...Im not sure I wish we drafted Ryan Mallet...
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Did Daniel Thomas have an injury history before we drafted him?
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