Troy Aikman wanted to play for Dolphins in 2002

Would have been awesome...

Dolphins would've been feared that year. We had Ricky Williams and Chris Chambers and Randy McMichael. Nobody would want to play us.

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So, we could have had an older and injury-prone Aikman? With Jay Fielder as the back-up QB, instead of Ray Lucas? Yeah, I'd have been okay with that....

Id forgotten all about that . i was so pumped reading about those rumors, and then he backed off for fear of concussions .

Per Aikman, he didn't back off. It was Miami, for reasons he still does not know.

Aikman also claimed in the documentary that he retired not because of injury/health, but because he was resentful towards the Dallas organization. The sales pitch was to reunite him with Norv Turner, whom the Dolphins had just hired as offensive coordinator. Aikman says he was all in.

My view -- huge missed opportunity by Wanny. That 2002 team was loaded. You could have had a Hall of Famer at the controls, running the offense that won him Super Bowls. And just a few weeks later, you added "Emmitt Smith" in Ricky Williams, who turned out to be All-World.

And it's not as if Fielder was some sacred cow. You'd actually worked out a trade to replace him with Matt Hasselbeck the previous offseason.

Aikman, Ricky, Chambers/McKnight/Gadsden/McMichael and that defense....with Fielder as the backup instead of Lucas, hard to imagine they miss the playoffs. More likely, you avoid that rough stretch with Lucas. And possibly the slide after Oakland.

I'm willing to bet Aikman isn't being entirely honest here. It's far more likely he's the one who backed off at the last minute. We've seen tons of indicision with aging QBs before.

The Dolphins would probably have signed him solely for the name recognition alone regardless of his play. It would have been a huge injection o merchandise and ticket sales.

It's easy for him to throw blame on owners and personnel who are no longer here.

were we that enamored with Fielder or that scared of Aikman?

Would have been interesting. It may have worked, I mean look at Manning with the Broncos, though I know Aikman's injuries were piling up so he wasn't at the same level. Ricky would've carried the load, and maybe Aikman would've just given that extra push to get the team into the playoffs instead of having that awful late season collapse.

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Would have been interesting. It may have worked, I mean look at Manning with the Broncos, though I know Aikman's injuries were piling up so he wasn't at the same level. Ricky would've carried the load, and maybe Aikman would've just given that extra push to get the team into the playoffs instead of having that awful late season collapse.

Wanny put the ball, and season, in the hands of Fiedler late in that final game of the season (versus the Pats) instead of handing it off three times to Ricky and trying to grind out a first down. Incomplete passes, no time off the clock, and the Pats got to drive down for the winning FG without time being much of an issue.

Sure, the Pats expected the us to run it, but so had the rest of the teams on our schedule and Ricky got it done time and again. At worst, you would have forced the Pats to burn their timeouts and taken the clock down some before punting it away. It's one thing to lose when you try your best option and fall short, but another to lose due to poor coaching.

"Deus ex dolphin wrote:

Wanny put the ball, and season, in the hands of Fiedler late in that final game of the season (versus the Pats) instead of handing it off three times to Ricky and trying to grind out a first down. Incomplete passes, no time off the clock, and the Pats got to drive down for the winning FG without time being much of an issue.

Sure, the Pats expected the us to run it, but so had the rest of the teams on our schedule and Ricky got it done time and again. At worst, you would have forced the Pats to burn their timeouts and taken the clock down some before punting it away. It's one thing to lose when you try your best option and fall short, but another to lose due to poor coaching.

That was the worst bit of play calling for a series I have ever seen. So what the Pat's knew we were going to run Ricky Williams, they hadn't stopped him all day. Run the ball and kill the clock. Not 3 straight incomplete passes, take no time off the clock and shank a punt. That was the game that I made my mind up that Wannstink had to go.

Stupid idiot.

We need to get over this. We need to get over drafting John Avery over Moss, missing Brees twice and all the other bonehead moves. These new Dolphins and, specifically the HC and FO will do great things

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JUST ANOTHER REASON TO HATE WANNSTEDT. THAT TEAM WAS ONE QB AWAY FROM BEING A LEGITMATE SUPER BOWL CONTENDER BUT HE COULDNT GET OVER HIS LOVE AFFAIR WITH FIEDLER

Hopefully this season is the season we can stop looking at what ifs. I can't wait to look at a bright future instead of a shirt gloomy past full of what ifs. That's sums up my career being a fins fan. I got to enjoy a little Marino, but that was at the end of his career.

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were we that enamored with Fielder or that scared of Aikman?

sadly enamored with Fiedler