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Since Jalen Ramsey posted a countdown clock on his social media pointing to June 1st one would think he is referring to leaving Miami. He also just purchased a house in the Dallas area so one would think that is where he is headed. San Fran and Washington were other teams in play.

Ramsey’s previous noteworthy social media post that could be related to the Dolphins was a bag of rotting oranges with a message that started by saying, “Who you surround yourself with matters.”

Good bye and good riddance, yet another miserable high profile Miami trade

I would be surprised to hear that Ramsey would be happy to leave Miami for... another team that missed the playoffs last year due to injuries at key positions, both of which finished worse than the Dolphins.

Dolphins mismanagement runs deeper than injuries at key positions. 

Supposing I agreed with that statement: "lack of confidence in management" is not an explanation for wanting to be traded TO the Cowboys.

That's like saying "I don't want to be in Miami because the owner here is too involved in the football operations."

Yet another example of why you should go after high character guys.  Ramsey's a piece of excrement.

Is he gone yet?

I hope Miami doesn't cave in and get pennies on the dollar for Ramsey at this point. I'd rather he either play for the Dolphins or don't play at all, your choice. I'm not saying I don't want them to trade him, I do, but for what he's worth, not for a 6th round pick.

Especially this year with a brand new head coach that no one in Dallas is confident that he was the right choice. It might get a lot worse in Dallas before it gets better.

As Mike Tomlin said  ... “We can’t do this with hostages, man. We need volunteers,” Tomlin said. “We need good players, good guys who want to be here and if guys can’t check those boxes, it’s probably best for all parties involved to go our separate ways.”

I'm betting Ramsey wouldn't put forth much effort if forced to stay. He already is on his own schedule and does his own thing. I can't see how that would be helpful.

i think the dolphins are getting lowball offers where they're expected to eat alot of his salary. So low pick + huge cap hit for what ? either one or the other has to give .. big cap hit but a high pick or low pick and low cap hit.

As it is the dolphins can keep him on the roster, fine him for every missed practice and game and if he fakes an injury, just put him in IR cause he's so very injured.

They can't fine him as of now as they told him to stay away from the facilities. At least that's what's been said from some of the sports writers.

I totally agree, but the question is would Ramsey rather sit out the year or play football for the Dolphins? I can't imagine it would be good for his career to sit out a year. A lot of it comes down to what Ramsey wants. I understand that he's not happy in Miami and probably wouldn't put forth the greatest effort, but I'm not too sure that's not what happened last year (at least after having a bad start). If the Dolphins really have tried to find a trade partner (I'm assuming that Ramsey's agent is being kept in the loop) and haven't found one, what does he want the Dolphins to do?

All I'm saying is that once the season starts, Ramsey's stock will go up when the inevitable injuries occur and somebody will make a decent offer for him. Miami should just sit tight till then.

I was thinking along those lines too. If they aren't getting anything in return and have to pay him, they might as well wait until he is the most valuable and after a few injuries on other teams would do it.

The Jalen Ramsey thing is nauseating. Omar said over the weekend based on what he has found out Ramsey could in fact end up staying. Of course this could be a ploy to get interested teams to up their ante.

I'm still a fan of telling him to report or get fined. And when he fakes an injury, just put him on IR for the year.

I see that he got traded to the Steelers.

And he got another raise. I guess the reports were a rouse or purposely spread misinformation because a few people said that. I wonder what we are giving up to get rid of him? Hopefully we get Jonnu and Zach signed soon.

On a separate note ... this was the most un-Steeler like off season I've ever seen Pittsburg go through. I wonder what is going on up there?

So Jonnu is going to Pittsburg as well? LOL ... we look like we are rebuilding in year 4 of Mike.

Getting out of Ramsey's contract and getting Fitzpatrick in return is probably about the best I could have expected from that trade. I'm OK with it although I doubt Fitzpatrick plays more than 1 season in Miami, but 1 year of Fitzpatrick even with his inflated salary is better than being on the hook for Ramsey's contract and getting nothing from him.

Or maybe just paid guns for hire? It's a nice quote, doesn't mean anything in today's NFL.

Jonnu had a good year, but he's nothing special. 20 other guys in the NFL can do what Smith does, whether that guy is on the Dolphins is another thing entirely.

Good riddance.

If both of Ramsey and Tyreek are off the salary cap books for 2026 onward, that should give us some room to negotiate something (as well as to extend Sieler, and other players we think are worth it).

In theory, Minkah should also add some much needed leadership to the team - something we clearly weren't getting from Ramsey.

But no one on our roster. Smythe was the best we had and he's no longer here. We have a bunch of projects that still haven't panned out. The best of the bunch led our team in penalties with few catches. It would be amazing if it suddenly happened.

Maybe Waller can be the guy?

Dolphins trade for Darren Waller (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/dolphins-trade-for-darren-waller-who-is-coming-out-of-retirement/ar-AA1HLLty?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=df6f134dcb0e4ac98f13b962059960f6&ei=18)

There is hope but players don't typically do too well after taking a year off. Our TE coach coached him on the Raiders where he did well so there is that.

Can you say Ricky Williams? LOL

I read a little something that said that it really wasn't about his health, but his commitment to the team (Giants). I can only assume that if he's decided to unretire, his heart is in it again with the Dolphins. Maybe he got a call from his old coach? We'll see I guess.

Waller is a really interesting addition. I remember him ripping the middle of our defense to shreds in a Raiders uniform a few years ago (like other quality players at the TE position). It seemed like he really wanted to come out of retirement to play for us (and only us) as well, make of that what you will.

The devil will be in the details of his contract - if the bulk of it is incentive/performance based, it could be a position where there's very little to lose from taking him on.

I saw an interesting article saying he retired because he lost interest in NY because they kept calling a play with him as the lead blocker. Let's see how that works out.

His best 2 years were under Dolphin's Offensive Coordinator Frank Smith. Both years over 1000 yards. He literally said Miami is the only place he would play and it's because of Frank. Hopefully that works in our favor.

The potential good news is that if this works out anywhere near as well as Jonnu did, Waller is unlikely to play hardball with his contract next year.

From what I heard is he was a beast of an athlete when he played so if he slides a little he may still be pretty good. Someone on Joe Rose said this morning he currently competes in CrossFit like competitions so he should be in pretty good shape.