SI's Peter King on Dolphins/Andy Dalton meeting
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These days teams are trying to get an edge any way they can. When the Dolphins scheduled an on-campus visit with Dalton for Sunday, April 3, they sent him a portion of their playbook, with their 100-odd formations—motions and shifts and protections, route trees for the receivers. He got the package late on Thursday and was told, Learn this by 10 a.m. on Sunday. Dalton had sessions with the Cowboys all day Friday, then a rehearsal dinner for a friend's wedding that night and the wedding on Saturday night. So he woke early Saturday and crammed all day, and on Sunday morning his fiancée drove him to campus so he could spend another hour studying in the car.
Miami offensive coordinator Brian Daboll stood in front of Dalton with a magnetic board, with six magnets emblematic of the skill players. He'd call out "Flex Right," and Dalton would have to place the magnets in the proper positions on the board. He was also tested on the protections and on where to go with the ball on certain calls. Dalton thinks he aced those tests.
Then the coaches told him they wanted to see how he'd handle certain off-field situations, like a receiver who thinks he's not getting the ball enough (hmmm: Brandon Marshall?) and storms into a meeting room. Daboll then burst through the door, playing the part. "He was yelling at me pretty loud about not getting the ball," Dalton says. "I said, 'I'll take a look at that.... All right, all right!' I don't think I handled that too well, but I know I can when it happens. But the situation was a little weird."
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ToddsPhinsNew MemberGreat, now that Jets will draft and cut him a week later. Thanks for giving out our playbook. :pity:
Nothing would piss me off more than having to remember a 100 pages of a playbook for nothing. Imagine if 20 teams asked him to do this. At which one would you finally snap & draw the line and send the playbook back covered in skid marks?
MrCleansubscriberAt least one team is thinking not just about Dalton's brains but also about what's on top of them. "Has there ever been a red-headed quarterback in the NFL who's really done well?" a coach asked one reporter last week. "It sounds idiotic, but is there any way that could be a factor? We've wondered."
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I hope the Dolphins aren't the team stupid enough to worry about his hair color. To answer the "idiotic" coach's question, yes, Sonny Jurgensen was a red head. Billy Kilmer may have been too.
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