Remember the early rumors from Darlington about the surprising move he was seeing with the Dolphins for the draft?
Well to sum up his twitter. Miami was trying to make a trade up but couldn't make it work (My guess...that was Cleveland's 6th and involved Bess and not his thought on Buffalo at all). So Ireland on an off chance....went for broke and tried to trade for his highest guy which was Dion and that trade worked out.
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On Mar 12, after Dolphins landed Mike Wallace, I tweeted about team's "intriguing" draft plans. Many have asked for weeks about that tweet.
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I feel comfortable now sharing: That plan, at that time, involved the pursuit of Tavon Austin. It was a hope all the way until yesterday.
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When Dolphins realized they couldn't get Austin, rather than hitting brakes, Ireland put his foot on the gas pedal… and got Jordan instead.
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Yeah I read those too ... gonna rub a lot of salt into the wounds of the Austin fans
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So what I gather is, Miami ranked Jordan #1, and Austin #2. They knew that Jordan would not be their at 12, but Austin may fall. When they realized that they would not get Jordan, or Austin they decided to get the guy they wanted, and got Jordan.
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The only constant in life is change.That was months ago ...and things change.:yes:
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It goes to show you how wrong the Ireland haters are about his drafting tendencies.
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This may indicate that we could be targeting a WR tonight. Stedman Bailey?
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The idiot's on NFL network (Jamie Dukes and Heath Evans) just got done ripping the Dion Jordan pick and saying Ireland has had a Terrible offseason. Wow how do these guys get paid, its Draft day how do these D squad analysts get on t.v? Just reinforces my hate for those 2 guys.
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honestly... I think the plan changed when we added Mike Wallace AND Brandon Gibson.
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This doesn't jive with what Ross said about how the idea of trading up went, tho....
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You'd think that they'd learn after Bruce Irvin shut them up.
The NFL is moving toward eschewing conventions on grades and more toward acquiring their guy at all costs. Cowboys did it, Titans drafting Locker at 8, Bruce Irvin last year, etc.
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Ireland could've had Austin if he wanted him, tells me he had Jordan higher on his board.
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Heath Evans always jumps at the chance to dog us out.
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I would be extremely surprised if we didn't target Swope in the 3rd Ryan's built in security blanket. He isn't a Tavon Austin but he is a quick YAC receiver that we could really use.
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Not high on the Jordan pick, but considering they gave up a 2nd, of which we have 2, and there is zero doubt its a position of need, it was indeed a shrewd move.
The idiot talking heads at all outlets are going to have me loving this pick before the day is over.
Peter Pricko the incredible ignoramous gave us a C- for our pick, but gave the Lions an A+ for Ziggy Ansah 4 picks later. That might be the stupidest thing I have ever seen anywhere.DPlus47 likes this. -
Tavon Austin is a non issue now. Best of luck in St. Louis kid.
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I heard someone on ESPN describe Dion Jordan as a game changer, and that is all that needs to be said about him. Everyone, even Gruden was saying what a good athlete he was, and Gruden was the most negative of anybody. Irregardless Dion Jordan was a top ten talent and Ireland grabbed him.
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Ok so we covet Austin at pick #6 and cant trade there so we moved up to #3 with Austin still there and went Jordon instead? it's a 3 pick difference, if u covet a guy you pull the trigger and F**k the critics.
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I actually think we are getting slated in some corners by "experts" because they dont actually follow and look into the Dolphins games and our weaknesses. We arnt fashionable due to our record and playing at 1pm every week. No prime time games. If we dont play in NY or called the Patriots then we get a bum deal. Its been like it for yrs. I was expecting it. If the Patriots had moved up and grabbed Jordan we wouldnt be reading half of this crap. Pardon my French. :angry:
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rule of thumb if many people dislike our draft then chances are we will end up with average players.
example many people were doubting us the last two years mainly the wide receiver corp AND truth is dolphin fans were so wrong about how crappy our wide receivers were the last two years which makes those people right and fin fans wrong.
I would bet that we get a "c-" from most of the media and that will unfortunately spell lack of success for us . I just hope that I am wrong. -
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Anyone have a link to the reaction to the jordan pick on ESPN? All I can find is NFL network which I watched live.
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It seems pretty clear that we were targeting Austin at #12. What changed was that Austin became a target at #9 for the Jets. We didn't rate him high enough to move up much for him. We did rate Jordan higher, but weren't going to give up much to move up. I do think that we were ready to offer the Browns #12 and Bess to move up to #6 for Austin. We made the same offer to the Raiders who declined but countered with #12 and #42. As reported they never expected the Raider's to ask for so little. I expect our board had Joeckel or Fisher then Jordan then Austin then Vaccaro or Eifert then Werner on it. I'm not sure whether or where Lane Johnson was on it.
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Yeah, I saw that. They were ripping Jeff Ireland pretty hard and knocking drafting Dion Jordan because they think he's nothing special. Highest rated d-end/olb prospect and they spew this nonsense. Hey Heath Evans --CHILD PLEASE.
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If you think we missed out of Tavon Austin just think about this for a second. The Jets were looking like they were in good position to either draft Austin or Jordan. It was pretty much a guarantee they would get one of them. Them sitting and waiting around, Dolphins swoop in and take Jordan away, no big deal, they will get Austin, then the Rams swoop in and take him away from them. Jets had to settle for their bottom two choices, imo.
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I think the goal was to trade up for Austin but we always had Jordan rated higher and just assumed we wouldn't be able to get him. Sometimes getting 1 of those top 3 players in a draft just isn't possible. After the Jags took an OT, We gave Oakland a call just to see what they would say and they decided to call us back and accept.
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