http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/int...s-team-position#miami-dolphins,miami-dolphins
Interesting to play around with this. It shows how much money each team spent per player and and unit last yer. In terms of money spent on each side of the ball, Miami ranks:
21st in Defense
21st in Offense
4th in Special Teams
and 23rd overall
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Fantastic info graphic.
Clicking on different teams you can see the patterns of success. When you tap on successful teams, by and large, they have the same size and pattern of circles (template for asset allocation between positions). In other words success looks like DE's paid more than DTs, CBs and LBs about the same amount of the cap, and Safeties slightly less.
On offense it looks like the center paid least, then guards, then tackles, but not too huge a disparity. The WRs should be bigger (paid more) and the TE a bit less than WR but equal or a bit more than the RBs. qB varies.
Comparing the Dolphins to other templates, we look stuck in a Parcells mold of paying mainly for DTs and LBs to stuff the run, and on offense of underpaying at WR.
Those are certainly true... Our secondary is our weakness, and our pass rush DEs are not as good or paid as much of the cap as most playoff teams. On offense our WRs and TEs have not been our strength.
Love info graphics like that because you can quickly look very deep into how different teams have been put together. I hope this offseason changes our 'look' significantly.
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The Colts spent no money on offense yet did well.
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Very cool.
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If you look at most fo the better teams in the league, they have $35-50 million in cap space devoted to their passing game skill position players. Currently undder contract for the Dolphins are really only Tannehill and Bess, who combined take up only about $5-6 million in cap space. So there is plenty of opportunity to load up on receiving targets in FA and, because WRs often take time to develop, that may be the best way to do it. Even paying top dollar, Wallace could be signed to a 5 yr., $50 million contract with $20 million in signing bonus and annual salaries of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 million, which would give him a cap hit of $6 million for 2013. Jennings could probably be had for something like 4 yrs, $32 million with $14 million in signing bonus and annual salaries of $2, 4, 6, 6 million, which would give him a cap hit of $5.5 million for 2013. A first round TE would get a deal that should have a cap hit of around $2 million, much like Tannehill's last year.You could probably even get Hartline in there on a 4 yr., $26 million deal with a signing bonus of $12 million and annual salaries of 1, 3, 4 and 6, which would have a cap hit of $4M for 2013. All of that would still have a cap hit of only around $25M for next year. The salaries would get dicey down the road when Tannehill gets a real starting QB contract and these salaries start to escalate, so it would be better to structure them a little differently. the truth is, that long term contracts are often not expected to play out for their full term on the original terms anyhow. I don't particularly like any of the TEs where we pick in the first, so it may be better to go with a vet there.
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Not to hijack the thread, but when you go through each team's WR corp, it's hard to see what WR across the league are being paid and think Hartline deserves $5-6 million.
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