The Official Jeff Ireland is a GENIUS Thread

So our stockpile of draft picks have already busted? Gotcha.

 

As it stands we essentially have our team from last year sans Smith and long

Added Wallace and ellerby.

I want to get the line in order so we can attack dbs and des

 

I don't mind Cook. Listed him as one of the FAs I wanted.

 

Looks like more and more to me that we will be targeting a CB with that pick @ # 12. Dee Millner if available or maybe the kid from FSU?

 

It's not like we're signing the over the hill gang here. Teams get into trouble in free agency not by simply engaging in free agency but by lavishing big contracts on players past their primes.

These guys (Wallace, Ellerbee, Cook) are not the types of players who typically make it to free agency. All are 27 or under and in their primes. All were wanted by their former teams but it hust couldn't happen for a variety of circumstances.

 

Jamie Dukes on NFL network just said he doesn't like what the Dolphins are doing today. He said, "I don't how you can sustain or build with the money they are spending...you need to spread the wealth around your team a little bit". He also said we overspent for Mike Wallace.

 

He also choked on his own tongue 4 times while drooling.

 

Dukes is and always will be a ****tard.

 

It's also been 2 1/2 hours, and we have 5 draft picks and possibly more depending who we are going to put on the block. Cap space will be regained one way or the other. This is somewhat of a youth movement, but these FA's are mostly proven.

 

Ben Volin ‏@BenVolinPBP BREAKING: #Rams have signed TE Jared Cook, per a source close to the situation

 

It's a do or die off season for him and it looks like he is stepping up.

He's a changed man. In previous off seasons he would low ball FAs and it seemed like he never showed any love and never chased a recruit.

NOW he is a recruiter as well. He's EVOLVING from a glorified scout to a real GM using all his tools. He has changed his tune and is doing the chasing. He has realized he can no longer get the girl at the bar by standing against the wall. He has manned up, getting his balls out there and talking a good game. Sometimes getting the girl a beer isn't going to get it done and sometimes you gotta get the champange out.

I haven't quite started evaluating what he has done yet but at least he is making moves.

 

Hey now, can we not turn into 2012 Buffalo Bills fans? I still expect the Patriots to win this division until someone like the Dolphins can actually prove on the field that they can knock them off.

 

Yep confirmed, Cook to Rams for a 5 year deal

 

Ellerbe is a push as Dansby will likely be cut. Wallace was always a target and he won't be asked to do anything in Miami that he didn't show in Pittsburgh. It's not like asking Alvin Harper to be Michael Irvin.

With Cook gone, I think the heavy spending is over.

 

Regained one way or another???

 

I wonder if Bucs fans said the same thing when they signed Alvin Harper back in 1995.

 

With Cook to the Rams, and Bears getting a Tackle, 2 suitors for Long are gone. Maybe now his demands suffers enough that Dolphins can resign him to a cheaper deal.

 

IIRC they thought they were getting an ascending all-pro. He didn't work out in TB as they took him away from his strength and tried to make him a different player.

 

Dansby had a good year and sad to see him go, but we just upgraded the LB position immensely

 

So, $13 million a year is the value for a deep threat only guy? Because I would typically think when you give a player this much money, the thought process is that you are getting an ascending all pro.

 

He's done a great job in getting players and managing the cap also.

 

Here we go...dream team....hehehehe

 

Can you explain the 6.25 million in cash thing? I don't really understand it.

 

says a lot about the Job Ireland has done. Thats awesome

 

How much cap do we have left?

 

I agree with this. Would love to see Aqib Talib here. Hurts the patsies too. One of the two stud TE's will be available at 12 in the draft.

 

Per Darlington a few minutes ago:

Tavon.Austin..... sing it with me now-- Tavon.Austin.

 

I'm the biggest Ireland hater but Dolphin lover.

Ireland doing good = Dolphins doing good.

Let's hope Wallace prove sKB21 wrong !

 

Yes, this is a win for Ireland who besides Dansby a couple years back hasn't landed a big free agent in years. It shows a little hope that Miami is still a place where players want to come and play.

 

That's what I'm thinking. That 70% chance you posted in another thread is probably a lot closer to 85-90 right now.

If Miami can get themselves a flex tight end like they wanted with Jared Cook, we may just be seeing a full time spread in Miami coming down the pike.

 

If he gets back to 1100-1200 yards and 8-10 TDs, I don't think there'll be much complaining. Besides, when you look at how our offence basically couldn't crack a 100 yards redzone defence, more speed was desperately required.

 

Feels like its 1999 and we're the St. Louis Rams. Just need Marshall Faulk now.

 

Truth in that, FA can be an enhancement, but not a founation.

Adding Wallace was needed, for a host of reasons, some non football related.

Clemons was not a bad player, but not a game changing type and Ellerbe is just a fillin for Dansby.