Miami Not Interested In Bidding Wars In Free Agency

Yeah, the last thing we would want is them to do something crazy like grab Austin for that 2nd round tender....how would we have gotten Pat White?

 

Well sounds like next year is not the year we have an all pro WR, ILB, or OLB

 

More Reggie Torbors........yay

 

I agree with this approach. Free agency is fools gold. If you spend big, you should spend it to keep your own players. I would not spend big money in free agency. The draft is where you build the team. Free agency is where you fill holes with solid players.

 

ehhh....depends on how tall the box is

 

Yawn. Sounds like a Nate Burleson acquisition as our "prized" pickup or something.

If the FO ****s the bed again like they did last year, then changes need to be made all across the board again in 2011.

 

Um, we already have a team full of those don't we? Shouldn't we be allowed to sign a star every now and then?

 

Pretty much. This team is loaded with exactly what we're planning to add to it with this "approach"

We need some identity; we need a superstar on both sides of the ball. We don't have one.

 

If you want to play this game, I'm sure we could come up with a whole lot more 2nd round busts then break out stars that we've drafted in the past.

John beck anyone?

 

When does throwing big money at a free agent ever work out? Also, Miami flat out should not be trading draft picks for veteran players. When you do that, you almost always end up with a veteran that never lives up to the hype, and you lose draft picks, which is the life blood of a franchise.

 

Sam Hurd come on down.

 

I can't wait to buy my next Miami Dolphins jersey of a solid player we drafted!

 

Agree for the most part....however there are gems in FA as well and to just turn your back on the idea completely is a mistake.

And it's not like they have adhered to this policy 100%........They gave big contracts to FA's like Grove and Wilson when they probably should have looked to fill those positions via the draft. Now we have a Center that will likely never in his life play a full season and a Safety that most hope never plays a full season, for us.

Just like the draft, you have to make the right choices...

 

building through free agency doesnt work
you are right
look at snyder and the redskins
haynesworth was a horrible fit
no chemistry
build through the draft

 

I agree with this 99%.

But when you have a team in its 3rd year of a 3-year rebuilding plan; and when that team's greatest need is a top WR, and WRs are notoriously both the biggest flop factor of any position in the draft and take a long time to develop - then I think it's warranted to make a big FA acquisition there.

Also, we need better players at both ILB positions; you can try to find two starters in the draft, but good luck getting those odds to work for you. Plus, do you really want two rooks starting alongside one another in a season when you're supposed to contend? When you'll likely also have a new OLB in the mix as well, along with possibly a new FS?

 

Sounds sort of ballless to me.

 

Ah yes, because that one was real obvious.

 

Why do I feel like I just got kicked in the nads.

 

Probably because you were just typing with them it seems like?

 

Drew Brees
Michael Turner
Asante Samuel
Jared Allen

 

Great your stubern ways are getting us now were ,If you wanna play you got pay jeez these guys dont learn

 

Salary Cap?

Et tu Adamp?

Jets won a playoff game, something we have not done since what...2000? There is no more salary cap, this ideal of "building through the draft" is sort of fool's gold indeed, in order to do that, one has to be crappy for a three or four year stretch.

Like the Cardinals were, that is how they stocked their team with Fitzgerald's and Dansby's, so unless they discover the "magic" scouting system, FA is about the only way to avoid that B$ of "our team has improved year after year".

The NFL is a four year window league.

 

This is 100% true.

Never, NEVER mortgage the future for the present. It never works.

I advocate signing one young, premier WR and one second-tier guy; one young, premier ILB and one or two second-tier guys; one young, decent OLB; and one Premier TE, or as close as we can get to it.

Then, draft one WR high; one or two ILBs - one of them high; one or two OLBs - one of them relatively high; and one TE, preferably Jimmy Graham in the 2nd; and a rangy-fast FS.

That'll address the glaring weaknesses up front, and give us some development material behind the starters.

And next draft we can take one or two monster OLBs and be the Defense we were intended to be at last.

 

burger meister meister burger

 

Don't feel bad Adamp Santa...err what?

 

Very sorry to hear them say that. I was hoping they were serious about getting us to a Superbowl. This is not an indication of that.

 

Like Pittsburgh, when they signed....

 

The problem is, without FA's we cannot miss in the draft, a Pat Turner is almost as bad for us as missing on a Qb, that #3 pick is not readily replacable, yet that is their strategy.

I guess they could scout the American Football Association in Italy. ...

Pat White will fill out, this is a key offseason for him and his first as a pro.

 

Roy Williams
Braylon Edwards
Ricky Williams
Albert Haynesworth
Peerless Price
Joey Galloway (to Dallas)
Adalius Thomas


It goes both ways.

 

So, since Pittsburgh did it, that means everyone can make it that way? I could just as easily bring up the many teams that made it to the SB via free agency. But the problem is the attitude, not the strategy. If you are serious about being a contender, you don't balk at whatever it will take.