that out of the last 11 years, here are our TOP THREE picks in each of those drafts.


2013 1 3 Dion Jordan DE
2013 2 54 Jamar Taylor DB
2013 3 77 Dallas Thomas OL

2012 1 8 Ryan Tannehill QB
2012 2 42 Jonathan Martin OL
2012 3 72 Olivier Vernon DE

2011 1 15 Mike Pouncey OL
2011 2 62 Daniel Thomas RB
2011 4 111 Clyde Gates WR

2010 1 28 Jared Odrick DE
2010 2 40 Koa Misi LB
2010 3 73 John Jerry T


2009 1 25 Vontae Davis DB
2009 2 44 Pat White QB
2009 2 61 Sean Smith DB

2008 1 1 Jake Long T
2008 2 32 Phillip Merling DE
2008 2 57 Chad Henne QB

2007 1 9 Ted Jr. Ginn WR
2007 2 40 John Beck QB
2007 2 60 Samson Satele C

2006 1 16 Jason Allen DB
2006 3 82 Derek Hagan WR
2006 7 212 Fred Evans DT

2005 1 2 Ronnie Brown RB
2005 2 46 Matt Roth DE
2005 3 70 Channing Crowder LB



2004 1 19 Vernon Carey T
2004 4 102 Will Poole DB
2004 5 160 Tony Bua LB

2003 2 49 Eddie Moore LB
2003 3 78 Wade Smith T
2003 3 87 Taylor Whitley G


2002 3 90 Seth McKinney C
2002 4 114 Randy McMichael TE
2002 5 161 Omare Lowe DB

It doesn't look like O line has been neglected. It must be remembered that these are the top THREE picks and not fourth and fifth round picks.

Still our oline is crappy. Do we blame it all on Ireland and his predecessors? Or, instead, are 4th and 5th round o liners just as good as top three round oliners?

I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but I think that Jake Long in 2008 is the only pro bowler.

If so, ought we not go somewhere else in the first round rather than o line?

Absolutely solid thinking. We need to address the Oline , first round Olineman are not always studs. Big bodies that can block are everywhere if you know what to look for. I'm hoping Hickey does. We go for best player available in the first round. I'm good with that.

GO DOLPHINS!!!!

Pro Bowl = Vernon Carey, Wade Smith, Jake Long, Mike Pouncey

Not that Ireland, Cammueller, Satan or Wanny should be used as benchmark drafters.

There were plenty of good lineman passed over by former Miami regimes.

One of them was our own player that they failed to identify (Wade Smith).

2002 and 2003 we had no 1st round pick. In 2002 we had no 1st or 2nd round pick. (Ricky)

2002 was a horrible year for tackles and linemen in general.

2003 wasn't much better outside of Jordan Gross at 8.

2004 we took Carey over Chris Snee, Jake Grove, Justin Smiley but there were not many highly rated linemen then either.

2005 #2 overall....would anyone really have taken Michael Roos or any other o-lineman that high?

2006 This one hurts! Jason Allen over Davin Joseph, Nick Mangold, Andrew Whitworth...the list goes on and on.

2007 passed on Joe Staley, Ben Grubbs, Justin Blaylock in favor of you Tedd Ginn! John Beck over Ryan Kalil also! Booker over marchall Yanda!

So it's not like we couldn't have fielded an all star line. The personnel people sucked. Most of the top talent at o-line comes atop the draft. Your odds increase at the very least.

This is the deepest draft in 20-30 years as some would say. We should be able to land at least one starter on the line. And we can probably do it in round 2 or 3 or later. Have to go BPA at 19! If that is o-line then so be it.

It has to be an immediate impact player and no walking wounded either.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2014 08:22AM by JoeFootball.

ChyrenB Wrote:
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> that out of the last 11 years, here are our TOP
> THREE picks in each of those drafts.
>
>
> 2013 1 3 Dion Jordan DE
> 2013 2 54 Jamar Taylor DB
> 2013 3 77 Dallas Thomas OL
>
> 2012 1 8 Ryan Tannehill QB
> 2012 2 42 Jonathan Martin OL
> 2012 3 72 Olivier Vernon DE
>
> 2011 1 15 Mike Pouncey OL
> 2011 2 62 Daniel Thomas RB
> 2011 4 111 Clyde Gates WR
>
> 2010 1 28 Jared Odrick DE
> 2010 2 40 Koa Misi LB
> 2010 3 73 John Jerry T
>
>
> 2009 1 25 Vontae Davis DB
> 2009 2 44 Pat White QB
> 2009 2 61 Sean Smith DB
>
> 2008 1 1 Jake Long T
> 2008 2 32 Phillip Merling DE
> 2008 2 57 Chad Henne QB
>
> 2007 1 9 Ted Jr. Ginn WR
> 2007 2 40 John Beck QB
> 2007 2 60 Samson Satele C
>
> 2006 1 16 Jason Allen DB
> 2006 3 82 Derek Hagan WR
> 2006 7 212 Fred Evans DT
>
> 2005 1 2 Ronnie Brown RB
> 2005 2 46 Matt Roth DE
> 2005 3 70 Channing Crowder LB
>
>
>
> 2004 1 19 Vernon Carey T
> 2004 4 102 Will Poole DB
> 2004 5 160 Tony Bua LB
>
> 2003 2 49 Eddie Moore LB
> 2003 3 78 Wade Smith T
> 2003 3 87 Taylor Whitley G
>
>
> 2002 3 90 Seth McKinney C
> 2002 4 114 Randy McMichael TE
> 2002 5 161 Omare Lowe DB
>
> It doesn't look like O line has been neglected.
> It must be remembered that these are the top THREE
> picks and not fourth and fifth round picks.
>
> Still our oline is crappy. Do we blame it all on
> Ireland and his predecessors? Or, instead, are
> 4th and 5th round o liners just as good as top
> three round oliners?
>
> I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but I
> think that Jake Long in 2008 is the only pro
> bowler.
>
> If so, ought we not go somewhere else in the first
> round rather than o line?

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I am completely on board for picking BPA in a position of need. Some will argue it doesn't have to be position of need, but my rebuttal would be that at 19, BPA isn't going to be a stud immediate starter (necessarily).

If that "stud" happens to drop to 19 (ala Marino at 26), then there is no doubt as to what will do. But sitting at 19 doesn't leave one with many choices.

The Miami OLine, at present, has two starters, the rest of the positions are unknowns. Hickey, of course, wants to get at least one starter from the draft. Can he do it at 19? Very possible, but if he goes in another direction, can the OL find that starter in the second round, or third round, or...?

Miami has so many damn holes it isn't funny. Even the positions that are filled are not that strong. Much talk about Pryor the safety being on Miami's radar. Why you may ask since Miami has given Jones an extension and just signed Delmas? Because Jones' play has fallen off and Delmas is an injury just waiting to happen.

I don't envy Hickey. Lots of holes to fill while being in a poor drafting position with only 6 or 7 picks.

Good luck, Dennis.

OH God 2003.

I'm still saying that we should go other needs than o line because we'd probably end up doing just as well with 3rd and 4th rounders.

Look at all the top guys we've picked TIME AND TIME AGAIN only to implode last year and half way get Tanny killed.

The more I think about the pick the more I hate it.

Sickofit+1 Wrote:
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> The more I think about the pick the more I hate
> it.


That actually makes me feel better about the pick.

GO DOLPHINS!!!!