Armando Salguero, Miami Herald, Sunday 5/16: "They're beating the Super Bowl drums in New Jersey because the Jets have a wonderfully entertaining big mouth for a coach, an aggressive front office and a star-studded roster that suggests the team that fell in the conference title game last season can take the next step this season. In Miami, no one is boasting. There are no Super Bowl dreams at night, and the days are filled with the usual silence from Bill Parcells and Jeff Ireland and Tony Sparano. At some point this offseason, Sparano might go out on a limb and predict the Dolphins will show up for their 2010 games. So the approaches the Jets and Dolphins are taking are vastly different. The expectation for each team is different. The vibe around the two teams is, you guessed it, different. And that should not be. FULL ARTICLE: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/16/v-fullstory/1631622/miami-dolphins-jets-similarly.html
David Harris and Bart Scott > Dansby and Crowder. Crowder is not on the other 3 players' level. Outside of that, I agree with the rest of the argument.
I love the way we go about our business...and I have no respect for how they go about their's...it makes kicking their *** so much sweeter, which we've done 3 times in a row, in very nice, quiet fashion I might add.. Talk is cheap man....you'd think they would of learned their lesson by now, when it comes to us.
I would say: 1. Dansby 2. Harris 3. Scott 4. Crowder [this could be changed to Tim Dobbins. He was popular with fans in SD, might have been a steal]
I'd have one and two switched and with a player like Dansby next to Crowder, he COULD be at number 3. Harris is just a tackling machine to me...
the Jests should dream about this: there will be blood; there will be pain there will be one brutal engagement after another a price will be extracted in the torment of the conflict there will be two games & the jets will lose both because Miami is very tough to beat on the playing field physically & mentally they are always prepared & significantly improved w/ each passing year there will be blood; there will be pain we will sweep them again in 2010
I'd also rank Dansby>Harris>Scott>Crowder. but I think our 1,4-combo is slightly better than their 2,3-combo. we'll see.
Sexy Rexy talks things up to take the pressure off his locker room. The media focus is on him, not on the players. It's his attempt to shelter his players, like they do in college. That's fine if he wants to operate that way. He's a hell of a D coach. He's got his hands full with the new stadium as well as assimilating the various members of his team together...that's the real litmus test for him. Sparano is unpretentious and getting anything more than coach-speak from him is nearly impossible. This whole regime is like that. He treats his players a little more like men than boys, to me. It's worked so far for him. He'll have the pressure on him to get this team to the next level. It will probably take another year and offseason, tho...imho. Either way is fine as long as it gets results....we have to wait and see for both...
Homer.... There are lots of excellent Mike Lb's in the NFL and in three seasons Harris is right at the top in statistics.
Dansby is the best pass defending ILB Ive seen in the league, hands down. He's slighty above average in the run game, and a good tackler. But its hard to say one guy is better than another when they dont have the same talent around them, responsibilities, scheme, etc.
