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MAKIN IT RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Watch him sign Pac Man Jones

Is he supposed to be blind in that picture?

I can't think of a better FA day in our history. We aren't talking about short term fixes. It's good to be a Dolphin fan for a day!!

We are actually signing YOUNG players who haven't peaked yet and have many years in front of them. Not doing what Daniel Synder did, or Al Davis and Jerry Jones have done and overpay for OLD players!

Indeed.  My thoughts, exactly.

Lots of great unexpected moves today.  I could see Miami moving up in the draft to get a top notch CB, and/or perhaps trading into the future for some better picks.

The Dolphins just TWEETED moments ago....."MORE TO COME"

ha ha ha ha!!

Really impressed with the aggressiveness Miami is showing to address specific team needs in free agency. Wallace, Ellerbe, Wheeler...these are all quality players.  Gotta love building the overall roster talent with relatively young players. Now, Miami just needs to really nail the draft next month...

And according to Jeff Darlington the Fins have BIG PLANS for the draft.

It's been a long time since this team was in "Win now" mode. They didn't mortgage their future like the Jets did either, which is great. A week ago, I figured we would draft a DE and Corner with the first two picks. Now, I see Miami packaging picks to take the best DE or CB in the draft.

I hope this leads to the day when we see the schedule come out and say "Bills and Jets, that's 4-0 guaranteed right there".

Ellerbe/Dansby is a wash cap wise. Wallace is about $6 mill on our cap. Wheeler is about $3 mill.

DON'T BE SHOCKED IF MIAMI MAKES A RUN AT WELKER OR JENNINGS tonight or tomorrow! Fins still with $20 mill or so in cap space (subtract about $5 mill for rookies) so they got $15 mill to play with give or take!!

They can also open up MORE cap space with 3 simple moves...Dimitri Patterson-$4.6m cap savings, Richard Marshall-$3.7m, Dan Carpenter-$2.5

And look no further than a few hours north for Carpenter's replacement.  Either Caleb Sturgis of UF or Dustin Hopkins of FSU would fit the bill nicely and should be easily obtainable in the sixth or seventh round.

wouldn't it be nice to snatch welker away from the patriots.

As opposed to the 12 teams with small plans, and the 7 teams with no plans at all?  ;)

(Smart-ass Translation: Everyone says their team has big plans for the draft, unless they traded away all their picks prior to the draft)

I just want to see Miami pick talented players and build this roster as strongly as possible. Every team plans to do that, so what I'm saying is that I want to see it executed properly. No bustalicious early picks, just playmakers on both sides of the ball.

 Miami has 5 early round picks and can do something special and big. They aren't just staying put and waiting for their turn on the clock like most teams do!

I would really like this, but what would happen to Bess then?

I love Bess - he's been great! But, I think he becomes unnecessary if you have Welker.

Rather keep Bess.

We need to spend that money on secondary.  Remember we lost Clemons and Smith.  Currently our starting corners are Nolan Carroll and Jimmy Wilson?

Let's go get some baller DB's before we start looking for kickers.

Didn't lose Clemons.

^^ Wrote that before I knew about that.  The message doesn't change, though.  Still need to address the team's biggest need at CB.

biggest needs are on offense. Can draft young CB's and hope to hit there

Give me Charles Woodson and I'll agree with you.  Would rather have at least 1 capable corner on the field, and 1 kid.  Not put all my eggs in "draft pick hope"

Woodson is a safety not a corner!

What about Dimitri Patterson and Richard Marshall? A couple of young players to back up these veterans would be ok, assuming they are healthy of course.

What? really?  Was he playing corner in Green Bay?  Why did I think he was a corner all this time?

he is now too old and slow to be a CB, he can play some CB in the nickle but will primarily be a safety now at this stage in his career. In GB he was doing both at the end. His CB days are essentially over

Ireland's FREE AGENT class by age

Keller 29, Wheeler 28, Ellerbe 27, Wallace 26, Hartline 26, Gibson 25

Spending money and staying young!

This splash had to be made due to Jeff Ireland's seat getting hotter by the hour.  This coming season, with Mike Wallace, Brandon Gibson and Dustin Keller, Jeff Ireland has no excuses. If Ryan Tannehill fails to make significant progress with these weapons he now has, you can bank on Ross sweeping out the front office and coaching staff from top to bottom.  And you can also bank on a new quarterback being drafted in 2014.

^^Not gonna happen on Philbin and Tannehill. That's unrealistic and knee-jerk. You can't give Ireland a million opportunities but bail on Philbin/Tannehill after 24 months! Ross knows his image is crap in the NFL, doing that to Philbin and bailing on Tannehill does NOTHING TO IMPROVE IT! And Ross is very aware that he needs to repair his image to get SUPER BOWLS in Miami!!!  Philbin will get time here. And you don't take a QB Top 10 and only give him 2 seasons especially when in the first year he had zero weapons! It's just not gonna happen, everyone knew what they drafted in Tannehill (including Ross) there will be no rush to replace him if he has a so-so season or even a poor season!

 Ireland could get fired sure, but Philbin and Tannehill will be here a while.

In a perfect world you'd be right. But in the real world, a new GM would want to bring in"his guy" as coach

Didn't happen in NY with Rex, he survived and Tanenbaum didn't. Might not mean Rex has long on the job but he survived.  Doesn't always happen the way you say it does, there have been numerous times in the NFL where the coach survives and a new GM is brought in. Happens all the damn time in baseball and it does happen in football as well (just not as often.)  Philbin isn't getting fired if Miami is bad this year and no way in hell do they bail on Tannehill either if he has a bad year. That's nonsense, the expectations are still low for Miami. Be at or above .500 and fight for a playoff spot. Nobody expects a Super Bowl year. So even if its another 7-9 or 6-10 season, sure it will be disappointing but not enough to get Philbin fired or Tannehill cut/benched.

Ross's history since buying this team is to not fire people. He has stuck with Ireland when popular opinion was against him and while he had thoughts of firing Sparano he gave him a long extension instead of firing him and gave him another opportunity before eventually letting him go.

And like I said, Ross is MORE worried about his image than you can imagine. He wants the big sexy name guys but knows he needs to repair his horrible image or else he will never land the Peyton's, Fisher's, and those types. If he fired Philbin after 24 months and moves on from his Top 10 QB draft pick after 24 months, he is toast in the NFL. He isn't going to do that. Short of a 1-15 or 2-14 season, its not happening.

Did this come from an interview with someone who actually knows Ross, or are you just making an assumption here?  I ask because you didn't preface it with "I think that...," "I believe that...," "it seems like...," "it appears that...," or any of the other base terms that say "this is my opinion, rather than hard facts."

Love the enthusiasm here. It's the same thing Eagles fans said a few off seasons ago when they built their dream team. Let's try to keep things in perspective here. They haven't played a down of football yet, so there's no telling how much of an upgrade they made, and even with a "win now" team, Miami still likely doesn't have the best team in its own division. Until they unseat New England, I would approach the off season with reserved optimism, but little more. -3X

It's been widely reported

Interesting, as a deep (I went 6 pages deep) Google search of "stephen ross + worried + image" yields absolutely nothing of the sort. Could you point to one example among the many that would make up that "widely reported" claim? It just seems a lot less like a real news item, and more like a personal opinion of yours. Was it just widely reported once on a random AM sports talk station at 3 AM or something? When something is "widely reported," it's usually pretty easy to find a report, as they are, you know...wide.

Translation: I know you like to assume that your opinions are directly translatable to fact, but you might want to learn how to use one or more of those opinion-based modifiers I noted in my previous post:

"It seems like...Ross is MORE worried about his image than you can imagine."
"It appears to me...that Ross is MORE worried about his image than you can imagine."
"I believe...that Ross is MORE worried about his image than you can imagine."

Practice using those...and I'll stop asking for supporting links to your "widely reported but nowhere to be found" information.

That depends entirely on who is brought in.  When considering scenarios in which the GM and HC would both be shown the door, the names "Cowher" and "Gruden" come to mind.

I firmly believe that Cameron would not have been fired if Parcells didn't come on board.

That was my point Spider. That just because Ireland is fired doesn't mean Philbin will be let go as well. It depends on who is brought in.

Cowher and Gruden have already turned Ross down once to even interview, don't see them ever being on his radar again

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/sports/football/one-of-nfls-most-powerful-women-is-making-her-mark/nXLcd/

I have mentioned Dawn Aponte before on this site and many people always ask me "WHO?" Here is a good article on her and her role with the Fins which most fans don't know. And how much power and say she has within the Dolphins organization right now. She was also technically Ross's first hire and he will never fire her according to some.

http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/57454/dolphins-gm-jeff-irelands-stock-on-the-rise

Ireland getting positive press these days.

A really interesting read, thanks Mike. Have to admit though I really didn't like one of the readers responses that we may be salary cap hell again in a year or three - any substance to this?

They are NOT in salary cap hell in a year. That is a myth. Now will they be able to do what they did this offsesaon, of course not. Can't do that every year. But they are NOT in salary cap hell next year. Starks and Soliai will both be gone. Maybe they keep 1 of them, maybe.

All 3 South Florida newspapers now reporting Miami's plan last night was Austin at #12 and if he wasn't there Eifert according to sources inside the organization

BUT  Ireland found out by watching TV one analyst say the Raiders phones aren't ringing while they were on the clock, so he picked it up and gave them a call just to see what it would take. That's how "non-planned" and "last minute" this was last night with that trade