Dolphins sign C Samson Satele

just had this as a pop up on my iPad from ESPN, waived OG Samuel Longo for him


https://twitter.com/miamidolphins/status/495713446936068096

 

Phinfan beat Ya

 

timeline is even...lalalala

 

the competition at RG just got fierce with turner, thomas and smith, i would give colledge some competition and put smith over at LG

 

So we basically signed the worst starting center in the league. Get well soon Pounce

 

Correct. But we didn't have a starting center at all, and he can fill in until Pouncey comes back, at which point we have one of the best backup centers in the league.

Finally somebody does something intelligent.

 

This was, unfortunately, a no brainer.

Having said that, I like Satele.

 

Like Tony Martin :)

 

Good. Honestly don't trust Garner. Too bad Smith flopped at C.

 

Samuel Not here for Longo was cut to make room for Samson .

 

Not exactly surprised by this move, just surprised it took so long.

 

Look at this way .All offensive plays start with a center snap.Even though thats all he can do we will be ahead of the game .

 

and Jason Taylor :shifty:

 

question, do we already know if Lazor is gonna be at the sideline or in the booth ?

 

And Larry Csonka.

 

could an op fix the thread title, he is a dolphin now, spell his name right

 

At least we can make sure the ball is getting to Tannehill. Other than that, Satele doesn't provide much.

 

Great question, I've been wondering about that myself.

 

Dolphins Sign Satele

I thought we only did this sort of thing for Zach Thomas & Jason Taylor? :shifty:

 

Probably garners backup.

 

Kind of like JT, but not really. :wink2:

 

Longo cut.
Still just pawn in game of life.

 

Satele is good when he's on the move, but other than that he's kinda ok

 

Well he got paid more than we offered him 10 days ago. So he's not dumb

 

@flasportsbuzz: Dolphins discussed contract with Satele 10 days ago but he decided to wait to see if they would offer better deal,which they did and he took

 

We need a smart Center.

 

If anything else, kudos to Dennis Hickey for making the move. At the very least he's bringing in guys who've played at least some at the NFL level to round out the O-line with Satele and even Tony Hills to a degree. I feel like in the past it would have been sink or swim with what we had.

 

The 2014 Miami Dolphins :rimshot:

 

this is truely the darkest timeline.

I like the move, but I wonder how much can be attributed to the job security of Hickey and Philbin. Even so, Hickey has brought in more offensive lineman that fit scheme in one year than Ireland did in 2.

 

Louis Oliver.

 

What do you mean?

 

Satele is generally an under-powered C who moves well. So simplistically he can get run over by a big NT so you'd probably need to double team play side on our inside zone runs. But he's better than many at picking up blocks against smaller quicker guys. He's also decent at pulling and at locating and blocking players on the second level (like a MLB). He struggled last year in the run game which I heard dropped his PFF rank to #31, but the year before that he was rated as the #16 C by PFF (for those who believe in their ratings). Both years in Indy he was in a zone blocking system (it was a man/power system in Miami when he was last here).

 

I'm good with it, I rather have a guy that has experience snapping the football than have Smith Garner or who ever else they were trying to convert to center... He may not be good but other than Pouncey he's easily the best option to start the season.