Updated: LB Phillip Wheeler agrees to terms with Miami

Any details on this guy. I don't know him.

 

Lol

 

@ProFootballTalk: Five years, $26 million for Wheeler in Miami, with $13 fully guaranteed.

 

Holy ****. Jeff is going for broke, this is going to be spectacular. Just not sure if it's the good kind or the FML kind.

 

Hand on the ground DE?

 

Adios K Burnett..I'd guess

Funny thing is, no Rey M either

And did not think our Lb's were a problem last season tbh

 

Your guess is as good as mine

 

It looks as if Miami is not only looking to get younger in the LB corps but faster as well. I would not be surprised that the 0-7 start in 2011 and with most of the defense coming into camp overweight and out of shape, left a bad taste in Ireland's craw? Good riddance to those fat cats and underachiever's. I want young hungry players!!!

 

Can't have Rey M on the field when you play the Pats...

 

Very good signing. We are gonna have blitzing LBs.

 

Wow, 5 minutes ago, I come here and see that he's visiting tomorrow... 30 seconds ago on NFLN I see we signed him. lol

 

Danger is, we are paying a lot of upfront $$$, if these guys don't pan out we are in a bad way.

 

Not so cheap.

 

Great production. Burnett gets traded?

 

Ireland doesn't care. He'll be fired at that point.

Risk/reward.

 

Some pass rush ability from the LB position, which will be nice.

 

A damn good LB. Who didn't mouth off about the front office.

 

its not that this is a very old team.... actually dansby and burnett may have been the only players over 30 years on defense....and wake of course

 

No as posted by someone else a few posts up they are planning on moving Wheeler to SLB and use Misi in a different way which could be a rotational DE with Odrick

 

I've been saying for a while now that Miami needed to get faster in the linebacking corps. I think this may suggest what style of coverage Miami will predominately play. Miami is bringing in linebackers that can get out into the flats. Me thinks Miami is going to be doing a lot of quarters coverage next year with some pattern reading. Definitely a lot of zone coverage, which is why Sean Smith isn't being brought back, IMO.

 

I like Wheeler all the way back to his days at GT. But hes more of a WLB IMO. and for the 3rd time, Misi going to DE is just a bad move IMO.

 

I'm loving today. Definitely making the most of our cap room. For all we know it could end up blowing up in our
faces, but at least Ireland would be gone.

Here's to hoping this offseason works out as planned and Ireland is here to stay though!

 

Totally agree.

 

volin

LOL

 

This is great news. Getting younger at linebacker while opening up a cap space. Tear it up, Ireland. Surprise us some more!

 

Wow....KB, that makes perfect sense. Good call....

 

We'll see. I trust Coyle to know what to do with these players though. And I'm hoping we can get Carradine in a mid round pick.

 

Something else signing Ellerbe and Wheeler do for this team.



It allows them to do this more often and be more effective at it. For those that don't know, this is the double A gap blitz, which is something Mike Zimmer does a lot of in Cincinnati.

http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2010/01/cincinnati_bengals_blitz_packa.html

 

Can't justify drafting a wr nor de at 12 now IMO. Tackle would be upsetting. Db- milliner, vaccaro? Is eifert worth the 12? Coming from an Ireland separatist, eating crow today. Much kudos and many thanks.

 

playing scared and conservative is why we've been so mediocre. at least these guys are young and we aren't overpaying for injury-prone vets like we did in the past.
our LB corps was good, but certainly not "very good" last season. they should have been better given our front four. Now I think we finally have the makings of a dominant front 7.

question is: where to go with #12 pick? you can either get Xavier Rhodes and get the dominant defense, or Eifert and potentially great offense.

 

Miami Dolphins ‏@MiamiDolphins What a day. More to come...

I'm thinking Eifert now.

 

I am stunned.

 

Best Day as a Phin fan in quite awhile.

 

armando

 

Fast ones too (though Burnett/Dansby are not slow). Nevertheless, young + fast sounds great.

 

It feels nice to win in march. now i want to win in january.

 

It just feels good that we are making serious moves to dethrone New England in the AFCE. Ready to become the class of the division again.

 

Remember though, while we definitely upgrade our already good linebacking corps. We still have no clue what we have at 3 of our offensive line spots, TE, and either starting corner. Theres still a lot of work to do.