Notre Dame Tight End Could Be Perfect Fit In Miami

Two tight end set of Kellr and Eifert, Pistol formation with Miller behind Tannehill and Hartline and Wallace out wide.

Well fine, if you insist...

He could indeed.

Just draft the mother grabber and worry about oline and corner later, he's that good..and he's that important to our young Qb, and to our anemic offense.

Question is, what if Austin and Eifert are on the board..that's why I've been calling the 1a and 1a all offseason..they are equal to me in terms of what they could do for our offense..

" I am told GM Jeff Ireland and coach Joe Philbin are enchanted by Eifert"

Greg cote.

YESSIR!!!!! Eifert is my top pick! If not him, then Xavier Rhodes (even though he is a seminole)

"djphinfan wrote:

Just draft the mother grabber and worry about oline and corner later, he's that good..and he's that important to our young Qb, and to our anemic offense.

Question is, what if Austin and Eifert are on the board..that's why I've been calling the 1a and 1a all offseason..they are equal to me in terms of what they could do for our offense..

The more mother grabbers the better, I say. :yes:

"djphinfan wrote:

" I am told GM Jeff Ireland and coach Joe Philbin are enchanted by Eifert"

Greg cote.

What a relief. Now we're gonna go OL in the first round for sure :wink2:.

"djphinfan wrote:

Just draft the mother grabber and worry about oline and corner later, he's that good..and he's that important to our young Qb, and to our anemic offense.

Question is, what if Austin and Eifert are on the board..that's why I've been calling the 1a and 1a all offseason..they are equal to me in terms of what they could do for our offense..

I guess that's a good problem to have between the two, but I'll take Eifert.

"djphinfan wrote:

" I am told GM Jeff Ireland and coach Joe Philbin are enchanted by Eifert"

Greg cote.

Either a smoke screen or they haven't learned to keep secrets yet.

I want Eifert, but this quote starts to make me think they are looking elsewhere

"ASOT wrote:

Either a smoke screen or they haven't learned to keep secrets yet.

I want Eifert, but this quote starts to make me think they are looking elsewhere

The Dolphins have been good at keeping secrets and being conservative in the draft for years. I haven't seen anything to suggest it'll be much different this year.

I'll be happy with him in the first, ideally in a trade down. Frankly, I'll be happy with just about any position other than DT, OG or RT. Ireland has to work hard to mess up our first round. Of course, we know he has it in him.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

I'll be happy with him in the first, ideally in a trade down. Frankly, I'll be happy with just about any position other than DT, OG or RT. Ireland has to work hard to mess up our first round. Of course, we know he has it in him.

Why not DT?

Why not DT?

I know that both are essentially playing on one year deals at this point, but we have Starks and Solia there, and a backup in Martin who Ive read good things about, as well as Randall from last year's draft. Not to mention Odrick, who could slide over if we take a DE. Unless we had a plan in place to move one of the starters for a second rounder, taking a DT seems pretty far down the list of good options. Yes, long term value, but we can get that a lot of other places where we need more help.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

I know that both are essentially playing on one year deals at this point, but we have Starks and Solia there, and a backup in Martin who Ive read good things about, as well as Randall from last year's draft. Not to mention Odrick, who could slide over if we take a DE. Unless we had a plan in place to move one of the starters for a second rounder, taking a DT seems pretty far down the list of good options. Yes, long term value, but we can get that a lot of other places where we need more help.

The one year deals, the fact our base defense is a 4-3, and that DT is probably THE most important part of any defense, make DT our biggest need after OT, IMO. And unlike OT, it cannot be easily filled in FA.

"Fin D wrote:

The one year deals, the fact our base defense is a 4-3, and that DT is probably THE most important part of any defense, make DT our biggest need after OT, IMO. And unlike OT, it cannot be easily filled in FA.

Sheldon Richardson?

"GMJohnson wrote:

Sheldon Richardson?

Or Star. Either one, I'd be very happy with at #12. i wouldn't prefer a trade up for one of them, but I'd rather see that than a trade up for an OT, because we can solve OT in other ways.

Fasano?

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

I'll be happy with him in the first, ideally in a trade down. Frankly, I'll be happy with just about any position other than DT, OG or RT. Ireland has to work hard to mess up our first round. Of course, we know he has it in him.

To me, that's the real appeal to this draft...We could use a TE like Eiffert, or a DT like Star, or a Guard like Cooper, or a even a RT, although I don't see any I'd take at #12, but then I don't look at RTs in the draft or a WR like Patterson or Austin or even a LT like Johnson who may be available... At this point, and this is a good thing, not only do we not know who Ireland may go with, neither do other teams... On top of that, whichever route he takes is going to be a good one for this team...

For those who don't want us to take an OT or OG, if any of the top 5 guys are there (the 3 tackles and the 2 guards), I predict that's where he goes though...We've spent a lot of our resources to get more O firepower this offseason and he's done a good job of that...He could round things out with the OL at the top of the draft and we'd still have a very good offseason...

"ASOT wrote:

Either a smoke screen or they haven't learned to keep secrets yet.

I want Eifert, but this quote starts to make me think they are looking elsewhere

No, I don't think it's a smoke screen. Tyler Eifert is a guy whom has properties that both Ireland and Philbin would like, and blended in such a way I think it's pretty reasonable to think their decision making process would think quite highly of him.

I think the real question is if it's at #12.

"Disgustipate wrote:

No, I don't think it's a smoke screen. Tyler Eifert is a guy whom has properties that both Ireland and Philbin would like, and blended in such a way I think it's pretty reasonable to think their decision making process would think quite highly of him.

I think the real question is if it's at #12.

What he brings to the table is clearly a need, if not a must have. Look at Miami's receiving corps as it is currently constructed. Miami still needs another run after the catch guy, but they also need that big, physical target that can be a major threat in the endzone.

I'm pretty convinced that if they will come out of the first couple of rounds with a tight end that can fill this role. They will either take Tyler Eifert at 12, or they will grab Gavin Escobar at 42.

"GMJohnson wrote:

The Dolphins have been good at keeping secrets and being conservative in the draft for years. I haven't seen anything to suggest it'll be much different this year.

Then there you go, it's a smoke screen and by your logic Eifert is almost a certainty to be in another uniform.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

I'll be happy with him in the first, ideally in a trade down. Frankly, I'll be happy with just about any position other than DT, OG or RT. Ireland has to work hard to mess up our first round. Of course, we know he has it in him.

(to finish your thought...) ...to mess this draft up.

(SIGH) All our fears.

"KB21 wrote:

What he brings to the table is clearly a need, if not a must have. Look at Miami's receiving corps as it is currently constructed. Miami still needs another run after the catch guy, but they also need that big, physical target that can be a major threat in the endzone.

I'm pretty convinced that if they will come out of the first couple of rounds with a tight end that can fill this role. They will either take Tyler Eifert at 12, or they will grab Gavin Escobar at 42.

What about Ertz? Not many are mentioning him.

"Disgustipate wrote:

No, I don't think it's a smoke screen. Tyler Eifert is a guy whom has properties that both Ireland and Philbin would like, and blended in such a way I think it's pretty reasonable to think their decision making process would think quite highly of him.

I think the real question is if it's at #12.

If they slide down, that is such a cop-out and once again Ireland will have proved that he's not learned his lesson about acquiring top flight offensive personnel. Atlanta showed that being aggressive can pay off, and sometimes you need to take a few chances. He's basically always gone for the safe pick. The one time he did trade and was aggressive we ended up with Daniel Thomas - not exactly a ringing endorsement of his evaluation skills.