Maybe this is what the team needs emotionally to get back to winning games. Only time will tell. Patriots game is a MUST win for sure.
I remember him playing pretty good for Baltimore especially during their superbowl run. Maybe not pro bowl level, but pretty sure he was voted to the pro bowl in 2011. Certainly better than Marc Colombo, wouldn't you agree? Even though you didn't then.
We have to be honest from both sides here. Yes, this is absolutely a desperation move. Better decisions could have prevented this from ever being an issue. But if a conditional 7th round pick prevents our "QB of the future" from getting injured, gun shy, or just plain losing his mind, then it is worth it.
Yikes. I don't doubt he will be better than Clabo, I just dont think that's saying much. Hope he's the answer along the OL... Much rather wish we'd done the deal for Monroe though. The Ravens wanted to replace him for a reason, no doubt about that.
Keep in mind too, ckparrothead had a very detailed study showing that Tannehill releases the ball very quickly on average compared to other QBs. So, if Flacco is more middle-of-the-road in that department, you could see a bigger jump in perceived performance when McKinnie plays for us.
Trade? I hope that's an assumption on Armando's part. If this FO really thinks they'd get a trade for Clabo ... Clabo right now would fetch a conditional 8th in a 7 round draft.
I don't care what pff says. only thing I care about is what mrclean said. mckinnie, 1 sack. clabo, 8 sacks. I think we have anothrr win already this season if clabo or martin had only given up 1 sack
Maybe this is less of an on-field move than it is a chemistry move. Maybe the entire line will play better with hangovers on Sunday morning. Maybe.
There's no mistake in logic. You claimed that 7th rounders were valuable. How many starters come from that round? We just got a starter in a trade. Some folks just look for ANY reason to bash Ireland. He's done a poor job but this is nitpicking. Sent from my Galaxy S3 using Tapatalk
I am guessing, but I would think that McKinnie will start at LT, and Martin goes back to RT. I hope this helps, I don't know how much worse it can get on OL.
I have a few thoughts on this: This is adrenaline-in-the-heart levels of desperation. But at least it's cheap desperation. The Dolphins continue to be the Ravens' speedbump. Pretty ridiculous how the Ravens have walked all over the Dolphins in revenge for 2007. Now Ozzie Newsome is getting into the act directly. If you made a Venn Diagram of this forum, the "People Who Defend Jeff Ireland" circle would overlap partially with the "People Who Hate Bryant McKinnie" circle. I wonder what the people in that overlap are thinking.
Sure criticize my spelling on the iphone whatever but the fact is and I am guessing your a Ireland lapdog that this teams problems are because Jeff Ireland thinks hes a great GM and half this board does as well because he got Mike Wallace (which he overpaid big time for!) hes a joke and his talent eval is horrible especially his free agent pickups. Name me a 2 pro bowlers still on this team he's acquired. So bash me because I hold him accountable for his actions which have us losing every season.. He is a MORON and the number one reason we SUCK!
same thing with wheeler. he could have been signed to a modest contract last year, but jeffy went with Guyton (who didn't make the team). smdh at this reactive king of a gm.
No effin kidding. A GM should have more foresight than hindsight . This is not indicative of that . Addressing the issue earlier could have resulted in one more win easily , imo.
GREAT NEWS! Orlando Alzueguery HATES the move...which means.... McKinnie will make the pro bowl and we will win 12 games.
Thing about pulling up McKinnie's block efficiency (which is a metric I love, by the way) is he's played left tackle his whole career. We're talking about moving him to right tackle (I think). If we're playing him at left tackle then that's one thing. We have some basis for translation there. If the Dolphins put him at right tackle we have none. We have no idea how he'd be at right tackle.
In all seriousness though. We haven't seen very much of this dude, being in Baltimore for the past half season, but I think McKinney will be a huge contributor to Tooties Cabaret.
I think the Miami Herald made a comment that they expect Martin to move back to right tackle. That experiment was quick. Lasted 6 games. I don't count last year's final 5 games because that was done in response to injury. It wasn't totally voluntary.
I guess this trade will be enough for the Ireland supporters. The problem of course is that McKinnie is a LT and he is being traded for to come in and take the place of Clabo. So unless the Dolphins plan to switch McKinnie and Martin, McKinnie will end up playing a position he hasn't ever played in the NFL. The Ravens are probably excited as heck that anyone would want to trade for McKinnie. They demoted him because they determined he could no longer get the job done for them. If this trade had happened a few years ago, McKinnie would have definitely been an upgrade. At this stage of his career,I'm not sure McKinnie will prove to be an upgrade over Clabo, especially if he is expected to come in and play RT for the Dolphins. The worst aspect of this trade is what it says about the offensive line backups now on the roster. Obviously the coaching staff has zero confidence in any of the backups to come in and upgrade this unit. When you have to go out and trade for a player who is at the end up his career and who was just demoted by the team he was starting for, this says far more about the lack of depth on the OL than it does about McKinnie being any sort of upgrade for this offensive line.
Next up is getting JJerry off this Oline. Disappointed Dallas Thomas has no role even under this dire situation.
He jumped 21 spots from 2012. His pass blocking has gone up 13.1 points. I'm not saying he's great by any means but he is improving unlike Clabo.