Honestly do not know who I'd want FinD, not a lineman we need playmakers on O and D.

 

Draft the best player available. If we miss out on Luck or RG3 and Morris Claiborne or Blackmon are there then you take one of them.

 

Either Weeden or Tannehill would be fine by me. I like Burfict a lot if he comes out. I know its not sexy and its real high for him but I would love to get David DeCastro on this team. Dude looks like an all pro OG.

 

Blackmon would be great, across from BM, move Bline to the #3 role..

 

You might actually consider that Matt Moore is playing very well and it might be worth trying to develop him instead of trying to take a risk that is dramatically more likely to fail than get you a better player?

 

If we draft another guard... God help us.

 

Nah..new QB=Shiney!

I honestly do cringe when I hear "Best Player Available" or "Top Rated on our Board" in re Ireland.

 

Safety

 

Trade down for volume. Re-sign Yatil Green, that guy should be fresh.

 

Been advocating this for YEARS now. Glad someone else has the same mindset!

 

Here's my thing. If no Luck, RG3 scares me how he will transition, although I would probably still take a chance on him if he makes it to us, which I don't think he will. I think we take best available talent im round 1. Hope Weeden is there in round 2. If not, I think we might have to ride into next season with Moore. Who is serviceable, but we need a franchise guy. There aren't going to be anyone available in FA better though. I wouldn't take Tannehill in the top 10. This draft is slowly becoming a bad year for QBs(after Luck). Last year was do much better and we missed several opportunities to get one.

I don't know what we are going to do at this point....

 

Not a saftey worth taking where were at. Since big Jake Long has had some big injuries I think best course of action would be a OT. Yup I'm going conservative with the pick.

 

If the Dolphins don't pick a QB round 1, I'd have my eye on guys like Courtney Upshaw, David DeCastro, Justin Blackmon, or maybe even Trent Richardson.

 

BPA sounds right since we have so many holes to fill. OT, G, passrusher OLB, safety. Maybe wr.

 

Last year I wanted Aldon Smith, i.e. best 3-4 pass rusher available or QB (Mallett or Ponder was who I wanted). Im sticking with that philosophy though I have yet to determine who the best pass-rusher really is. Coples impresses me but he may be gone though Wes Bunting also makes an interesting point in that free agency could hit our DL hard with Langford unsigned and Soliai still without an extension. Burfict just seems like a really dumb player, Ive seen him take a few penalties that were just idiotic. The game vs Boise State the other night was a prime example. He has a ton of skills but a 3 cent brain. Courtney Upshaw and Bruce Irvin are solid choices as well though a lot of people are down on Upshaw in a way that seems similar to Lamarr Woodley a few years ago and I am thinking Upshaw may fall in to round 2.

I worry about going with perimeter players though if Blackmon fell I think you have to do it. Floyd I think you can move down a few slots and get. He wont be a top 15 pick. See if you can get a ransom if thats really our pick.

I like Ryan Tannehill as an option quite a bit but he does have a risk factor to him because he hasnt been a QB for but a couple of years. Still he is pretty good fundamentally and I like him far more then say a Blaine Gabbert from just a year ago. I guess in discussing QB's I have Luck ranked above everyone else like everyone else but then RG3 and Tannehill are both options with bust factors to them.

What I am not doing is taking a Guard or Running back in round 1, I dont care how good David Decastro and Trent Richardson are. We have Bush and Thomas and guards can be found.

Bottom line though is those are the 4 positions I am looking at in round 1 because thats where there are quality players that fill a need for us. Ideally though, Im still looking at what its going to take for Luck.

 

Trading down for a pick next year would be nice. The Patriots accumulate draft picks through pure arbitrage; it's about time we started playing that game, too. Assuming our GM recognizes what's going on and gets out of the stone age of draft pick valuation, that is.

As for what we should do… I don't think RG3 is an option. He screams "bust" to me, at least with this franchise. He's not this year's version of Cam Newton, he's this year's version of Vince Young. And Vince Young is not a good quarterback.

So if Luck's off the table, and let's for the sake of argument say that RG3 goes to Cleveland, what then? Easy: Brandon Weeden. And we could trade down to get him, too. Ireland will love that.

 

He is a completely different quarterback than Vince Young.

 

You could say that with Barkley staying in school, we may be in the market to trade down dramatically. And, with that garner picks that could be used the following year to acquire Barkley or someone else should we be required to move up in the draft. Tannehill would be a project to say the least, he has a good arm and is mobile, but he has the same issues Chad Henne did with regards to touch on his passes.

 

If a few of those guys Jones, RGIII, and Wilson decide to stay, I think you wait until 2013 to make a move and draft a QB. If they enter, then evaluate the remaining options and see if they make sense at your position. I like the idea of a move down to select Wheeden like Desides suggested.

I'm still of the opinion, that I'd be ok with a selection for a RT prospect, a TE, or an OLB that can rush the passer. I don't think there is a TE option out there that warrants that high of a pick, but you see the league and we need to catch up there.

 

And a completely different person mentally than Young. The only things similar are they are both black, mobile and matriculated in the state of Texas.

 

He's the one Qb this draft that I've not seen play among the top guys, and Henne's problems were as much about kajones as touch passes.

I'd like to see a Center added in rd # 3 or #4, like Brewster or Molk, kick Pounce to LG, and Richie I to RG, that solves some problems

Wonder if the new HC says "yeah, that YBell? How about Jones at SS and Clemons at FS"?

So much is up in the air about who will be the new HC and New Staff, it's hard to predict much of anything atm.

 

We damn well better not reach for either of those guys at the 7 or 8 spot.
Something in my Man Cave will break if that happens.

 

What I mean by the RG3-Young comparison is that both are being hyped up for reasons other than pure quarterbacking. Young was a great athlete who happened to line up at quarterback; RG3 is much the same. I'm not comparing their personalities or positions, just what they offer immediately to an NFL team.

I'd like to add that I think it's curious that so many would criticize Cam Newton because Gus Malzahn would make play calls and radio them in, but won't criticize RG3 for also having his play calls radioed in. I think there's an undercurrent of "Cam Newton is pretty good in the NFL, RG3 can be too" which I think is a bit of a false comparison. Newton was much further along as a quarterback than RG3 is, IMO.

I don't see a spot for RG3 on this roster, and I think the only reason we're talking about him going to the Dolphins is the ongoing misconception that Stephen Ross just wants flashy everything. The quarterback Ross wants is Andrew Luck, not RG3.

 

In another post/thread didn't you advocate Ben Jones in round 1 and kicking Pouncey to LG?

 

That statement is meaningless.

 

No, that statement is an accurate description of Vince Young the draft prospect. You're free to disagree with it, but that doesn't make it meaningless. Young's athletic talents were his most developed. He wasn't a good NFL QB prospect, and he turned out to be a bust.

RG3 has a better chance of being a good NFL QB than Vince Young did, but IMO he's not going to do it right away. I would sit RG3 for at least one season, preferably two. But the team that drafts him will likely start him right away.

 

I believe I had him as the #2 pick for us Mr C?

W/Floyd or Blackmon as our #1 pick?

Anywho, I may be the last holdout for the guy, but I'd still roll the dice on Vince Young, he of the 4 Td's and 9 int's on the season.

Or Garrard, anywho, maybe I'm in win now mode moreso then the "draft a Qb" folks, I just see 5 L's with 2.2 pt losing margin and a last place schedule and I just think we can make a run in 2012, not sure how far or what have you, but 3 more yrs on a Qb is a proposition I don't care for at all.

 

We are going to have to get creative and find a way to get an impact player. Standing pat and waiting for the draft to unfold hasn't worked out for us. We need to target playmakers.and go out and get them.

 

Ok, I may have misunderstood your intent then. That does sound like a good plan to me though.

 

Still stuns me we have os much invested in a Center Mr C..as in..really?

But a 2 for 1 deal via drafting a pure center and putting Pouncey at LG seems like a value play to me.

 

We can't seem to get the position settled since Tim Ruddy retired, and I was never a fan of Ruddy. He was steady and smart though.

Now, Samson Satele is doing as well for the Raiders now as Pouncey is for us. He was traded too soon. Grove had an injury history before we signed him, but I doubt anyone expected a career ending injury after 12 games.

Lots of possibilities and with new coaches coming in very likely, who knows if they will like Pouncey better as a C or a LG.

 

I think at this point it's far more prudent to keep Pouncey at C and draft a true guard.

 

Well, my thinking is at worst you can do fine with Ryan Cook at Center, but the Guard problems have plagued us for yrs, even before Sparano's time.

We know Pouncey can play, why re-invent the wheel and start over with a rookie?

FA is a good route, philly's Evan Mathis is a FA, they messed up letting him go in 08, he's a good LG.

 

If you're going to spend money, why not just get Ben Grubbs and fix the LG spot for the next 5-8 years? Why add another cheap part who's serviceable at best? Same goes for playing Cook anywhere along the OL. He was never what I'd call a decent starter during his time in Minnesota.

 

Isn't that exactly what you are doing though?

Unfortunately, Blackmon and Claiborne will be gone when we pick. Our best move may be to trade down, which is always lame to say even when it's true. I am not sure who anyone would move up for though this year.

Assuming that to be the case, we may be taking a look at someone like Kirkpatrick at CB, or maybe reaching a bit for Floyd/Jefferey.

We absolutely should NOT spend our first round pick on the OL.

 

If Coples or Richardson start to fall, someone could conceivably move up for them. Remember, the Chargers traded up with us for Ryan Mathews. I hated trading down that year, but we really took AJ Smith for a ride on that one.

Agreed. I'd like to include the second round in this statement too. I'd like to see us come away Coby Fleener in the second round, assuming that's in any way possible.

 

Count me in on the Yatil Green bandwagon.

 

Cook has played Center with good results before, and this is not all that hard to find a position in FA.

Eh, for the right deal, though I suspect we won't have much luck with that one, we are outside of the Qb derby positioning, and far enough away to also miss out on the Elite types, aside from OLB/DE.

I'd take Floyd, but knowing Ireland...

Guess who, legitimately, would be the BPA at that point?

-Best WR, Blackmon..gone
-Best Cb..gone
-Qb's/RG3/Luck..gone
-DE/OLB..Colpes..gone

Ryan Kalil

***** that, I'd take Floyd!

Though, a part of me would have some joy watching Ireland up at the podium annoucing that crap...