4 yrs $110 million

This will haunt us. I don't even get why we put so much into the draft. When we draft Blue chip players we let them go. Team player, never hurt, always in on plays. SMH.

GO DOLPHINS!!!!

agreed. and the Raiders...ugh.

Grier needs to go. He could have kept him in Miami for less than what the Raiders are giving him last year. Two years of negotiations and it comes to this, just walking away and within 2 hours, KABOOM the Raiders snag him thanks to Grier's incompetence. Horrible GM.

TreasurecoastPhinsfan Wrote:
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> 4 yrs $110 million
>
> This will haunt us. I don't even get why we put so
> much into the draft. When we draft Blue chip
> players we let them go. Team player, never hurt,
> always in on plays. SMH.

The only good players that Grier manages to keep are the ones who spend half of the season hurt on the sidelines year after year. He's a piss poor GM.

Regarding:

Wilkens - Im happy we did not sign him. As I stated before I think his stats were inflated by his performance against bad teams. Stats were not there against the good ones. Im sure this was seen in film reviews.

Hunt - Really wanted to retain him but not at the price Carolina paid.

Van Ginkel - A big surprise. Vikings are getting a deal if he signs at the price that is being quoted in articles. If he walks I think Weaver does not see him fitting his vision for the D. Crap happens.

I think the front office does not believe the team in its current state can not beat the Chiefs next year (I agree). Cut your losses and collect the extra compensatory picks as I said earlier.

I think we should let Connor Williams leave too, we have enough knocked up players. In free agency I think we stay away from the big price free agents and bring in a center and Edg (Clowney). I think we bring back as many as our affordable free agents as possible (Lamm, Davis, Wynn, Apple etc). Coaching has improved so I think we will lean on coaching to make up for loss of talent.

The addition of Weaver is interesting because some of the players we had in 2023 may not fit his vision.

I am not concerned w/ the losses.

Van Ginkel is not a bargain. He only woke up the last 2 seasons because of Wilkins.

GO DOLPHINS!!!!

Van Ginkel and Wilkins were my favorite players to watch. Durable and good football players.

Agree with what was said about Grier. Why waste a 1st on a DT if you have no intention of retaining him. They told him 17.5 was too high last year because he didn't have the sack numbers. Well, he bet on himself and won. Good for Wilkins. You only have so many opportunities to hit it big in the NFL.

We were giving the opportunity to match on Van Ginkel and declined. Instead, we signed and injury prone LB from Seattle for the same price.

When you have a revolving door at D coordinator you get upheaval. Grier promised the fan base, 6 years ago when the rebuild began, that it would be done the right way through the draft and we would be perennial super bowl contenders. He punted on the rebuild and went into win now mode when he traded for Hill. Grier is a liability and should have been shown the door with Flores...his signature hire.

SIGH. Anyway you look at it Wilkins is a huge loss. I'm afraid Miami is going to see the hard way in ways he contributed that you couldn't give a stat.

What's done is done. Huge loss but I'm not going to wish failure on my team.

I can't even tell you where to start looking at the draft. My go to answer is Oline oline oline.......except now Our Dline just got a huge hole to could drive Lizzo through.as well.



GO DOLPHINS!!!!

Wilkens, Hunt, Van Ginkel, B. Jones, X,.......All gone! Miami hasn't made that big splash that they usually do every year; no cap space to do so. What I am saying is....no Super Bowl this season, and probably not for a couple more seasons, at least. However, I do believe there will be a winning season, but no playoffs. Playoffs???

I wouldn't be surprised if the Jets finish with a better record than Miami next season. Seriously. I hope I'm wrong though. As it was said though, hopefully the new coordinator & coaching will make up for the lost talent.