I would have been late to the party if I just wrote a blog about how the Dolphins are, reportedly, going to try and trade up to number one and select Joe Burrow.
This happened around 7:30 PM last night and I was in the middle of watching the Unabomber documentary on Netflix. I highly suggest giving it some run. But, I wanted to write this morning, and I didn’t want to rehash what everyone else has already written. So, taking the news of the Dolphins, reportedly, going to make a play for Joe Burrow, I went a different route. That route is that the news of the Dolphins, reportedly, wanting to trade up is an announcement to the rest of the league that YOUR Miami Dolphins can do whatever they want when they want.
The Dolphins have crushed the life out of legally tampering/free agency period. They have been signing young, at times not very expensive, at times pretty damn expensive players. However all we can see quality depth all throughout their roster. You’re going to see ESPN and some other outlets are giving the Dolphins a subpar grade on what they did. Not sure how signing nearly everybody makes your team worse. Especially, when your team was completely devoid of talent, but that’s what they will try and convince you of today. The Dolphins had Scrooge McDuck type money and decided not to sit on all of it. If Miami sat back and signed a few cheap guys, everyone would be murdering us for not using all that cap space. Think about it like that.
Oh, and the dumbass line you’re going to keep hearing is that the Dolphins are going to fail because they’re signing too many Patriot players. Full disclosure: the Patriots have won, a lot. If you think about it, there’s some logic in bringing in players who know nothing but winning. Van Noy, Roberts, and Karras were praised throughout the year for being talented, smart and versatile football players. Now, because the Dolphins have them it means they’re just going to vomit all over themselves automatically? At least give them the opportunity to let us all down.
Miami letting it known that they intend to go after Burrow, to me, is a message to everyone else that the Dolphins control this draft. They have six picks within the first seventy picks, fourteen overall. The Dolphins can turn the picks into any player they choose. Burrow, Young, Tua, it doesn’t matter. If Miami is willing to part ways with multiple picks, they can get anyone. It doesn’t matter if the Jaguars or the Chargers want to move up. The Dolphins have more and more is better.
The Dolphins put all of us through a more often than not miserable year last year and now, it’s time for the Dolphins to walk into the draft like Thanos entering Wakanda.
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