The squad will experience the usual annual changes as the offseason progresses, including players being cut, traded away, or acquired and departing once their contract expires. In light of that, I posed the following query last week:
Which players on each side of the ball do you think are the “core players” that the club needs to keep moving forward in order to avoid becoming just another rebuilding team, assuming that the team will stick with its present roster (without scheduled cuts, etc.)?
Here are a few of your responses and opinions on the matter:
Daytonadolfan claims that the team needs to bring back three key defenders and that the TE is set!
Julian Hill and Smythe stay, Waddle and T Hill stay, Mostert and give Brooks a chance, and there’s no need for T.E.s since they’re little utilized! Wilkins, Sieler, and A.V.G. must remain! A couple more, but that was only an idle thought.
Although Alpha 6 has a strong roster, several of those defenders will need to recover well from their injuries.
Offense:
Hunt, Jackson, Ingold, Armstead, Mostert, Tua, Hill, Waddle, and Achane.
Protection:
AVG, Baker, Chubb, D. Elliott, Holland, Ramsey, Sieler, Wilkins,
Francesco ITA is still confident in our quarterback!
OFFTua (Qb is nearly invariably a key player) Jackson (the blindside of Tua) and Hill (the team’s greatest player)
DEF, Holland, Phillips, and Ramsey
USMCFinzFreak has to concur with Hill—waddle cannot be traded!
On offense, it’s Hill, Waddle, Tua (since no other player is available who is better), Achane, and Jackson.
Ramsey and Seiler are playing defense. If I felt positive about Phillips, Chubb, and AVG’s recovery, I would also include them.
Dedstrk316 is open to trading Waddle for the appropriate amount and is not affiliated with Freak.
Waddle, Hill, Tua, Achane, Holland, Ramsey, JP.
Hill is older, but if the appropriate offer came up, I wouldn’t mind exchanging Waddle and Tua. Thus, they have an asterisk next to the core. Depending on his recuperation, JP is likewise core with an asterisk.
The infamous P.E.D. believes Hill is no longer alive! (Aside from that, the only practical way to get out of Hill’s contract is to make a trade after June 1st that would save $20 million. (Releasing Hill before June 1st costs the team 22.2 million more against the cap, and releasing him after June 1st only saves 350K.)
Given the cap scenario, I find it impossible that you could continue to support Tyreek.
Tua must be paid, Waddle must be paid eventually, and they must shed $51 million in order to get below the cap this year.
This is going to get ugly very quickly.
This season, TPL sees some of the young backups stepping up.
Ramsey, Phillips, AVG, Hill, Jackson, Hunt, Mostert, Achane, Sieler, and Smythe. Playing LT is the combination of armstead and lamm, either one or the other. Tua is getting there, but not quite, at least not until I witness improvements in his reading and mobility. I hope that Chase Claypool, Ezukanma, Channing Tindall, Cam Smith, Skylar Thompson, Chase Brooks, Anthony Schwartz, and Julian Hill make progress.
Miami 7 anticipates a number of significant personnel adjustments.
Years later, Mostert ages out, Armstead is gone—what kind of team are they going to assemble around the quarterback if, at that point, success requires every position to be manned by superstars? REMODEL. Extending Tua this year would be unconscionably fatal.
Because Tagovailoa is a kind kid or smarter than his agent, his peers, the NFLPA, or his future family, he is not giving the Dolphins any ridiculous discount. That is the epitome of fandumb. Grier will kick the financial can down the road and ruin this brand for however long they supply him with stupidity if they “act” to extend him now. HOLD ON! A whole year! That’s it. Look at his true nature.
We wish to give him more time and HOPE thinCore NOW.
