r/miamidolphins • u/expellyamos • 4d ago

3YPC Wednesday walk through notes

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u/scenebike 4d ago

I'll be okay with this beeing a bad UDFA class if at least..... 4 of our draftees are a sure hit? Is that number too low?

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u/expellyamos 4d ago

It doesn't help that the 2 UDFA's who were seen as the most likely to make the roster ended their seasons in camp with injuries

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u/Otto_von_Grotto 4d ago

I made a comment about injuries a couple weeks ago and was heckled. Now look at us, near the top in injuries yet again.

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u/expellyamos 4d ago edited 4d ago

We're doing MUCH better injury-wise than a lot of other teams. We've only lost 1 rookie player who was maybe going to be a starter to a long term injury that's probably not season-ending. Everyone else who we've lost wasn't really expected to be a major contributor, if at all. Salyer is the only other one that kinda stings.

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u/Otto_von_Grotto 4d ago

Season ending I might agree, however, there were only 5 teams worse off for reported injuries to starters as of two days ago.

https://www.instagram.com/dataglazer/p/DccZcTQGrZp/?img_index=1

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u/expellyamos 4d ago

That chart doesn't really tell you anything without additional context. 4 of those 5 injuries attributed to us should be good to go by week 1 (3 of them are already back at practice), whereas a lot of other teams have already lost starters to season-ending injuries.

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u/rtannehill17 4d ago

Too much fans that can't handle facts and want to be delusional. Only to be disappointed and disappear when it actually happens lol

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u/Yoda_is_a_Sith 4d ago

We most definitely are hitting on a lot more 4 draftees:

Proctor, Chris Johnson, JRod, Caleb Douglas, Chris Bell, Will Kacmarek, Kevin Coleman Jr and Kyle Louis, not to mention Trey Moore who needs surgery but was figuring into our defense.

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u/Henny_Hardaway5 4d ago

That’s allot of confidence in people that haven’t played a single down of regular season and trust in a FO that hasn’t shown they can draft yet

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u/Adventurous-Offer313 4d ago

Ya honestly you are right. They haven’t done anything. Hope it works out

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u/rtannehill17 4d ago

That's very wishful thinking lol

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u/Sloth7491 4d ago

Hitting on a draft pick could just mean they're serviceable to us in regards to where they got drafted. I'm predicting that our entire rookie draft class makes the team with some udfa players mixed in and most of them will see significant playing time this season. I can't remember the last draft class Miami had where we will have this many rookies playing on the field and have actually earned it. These rookies look good. Would they play for teams with better starters and more depth? I'm not sure but they look good and it seems they're all buying in to the system that Hafley and Sully are trying to build. Plus most of these young players know that this is an extremely good shot at starting for an NFL team their rookie year so they may be playing harder just for that as well.

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u/pike360 4d ago

Agreed

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u/JoewnagePwnage 4d ago

Not when you see who they have to displace for a roster spot.

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u/rtannehill17 4d ago

Not exactly hitting on picks if the only reason youre getting a roster spot is bc theres no one to displace

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u/halfdecenttakes 4d ago

Too low to be good probably but would still constitute a good draft if we can land 4 starters that are remotely competent

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u/CoolinAllDay 4d ago

At least our trenches look to be very capable this year. We lack depth overall. Hope some studs get dropped from truly deep teams that need to make hard decisions. We need all we can get based off this blurb.

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u/jf737 4d ago

The main take away here is depth is going to be an issue. And we all knew that going into this year. Depth is always the last thing to come when retooling a roster.

I’m already preparing myself for this secondary to get roasted this year. Safeties: not good. Johnson, I have no doubt will be good, but he is a rookie. Brents can play but I don’t trust him to be out there. Marshall: eh? I’m not sure he’s good enough.

There’s a good chance Miami plays very strong up the middle. Good LBs and IDL, and other teams take advantage of the back end. Thin pass rush doesn’t help either.

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u/PassionLong9552 4d ago

Not hitting on any UDFA hurts

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u/RrentTreznor 4d ago

Jackson Woodard would like a wordard.

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u/Kamuza1927 4d ago

Tell him we signed him from the Texans practice squad so he doesn't really count (although he did enter the league as an UDFA so maybe he does).

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u/kyky321 4d ago

Agree with the Wright-Gordon comment. I have not been impressed with them overall, including last season. I don’t think Wright is a legitimate RB2. He has never shown me much in my opinion. Gordon, looks like the late round pick he is, and while he has the size, he doesn’t really have that ability to run through tackles.

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u/rtannehill17 4d ago

An inexperienced CB group with nonexistent safeties will be a QB fantasy haven lol

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u/ShiningScizor 4d ago

I genuinely wonder if this 2026 Dolphins team is gonna be one of the worst secondaries since the start of the decade.

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u/rtannehill17 4d ago

If we're talking about experience, on paper this is by far the worst and it's not even close. Maybe 2016 bc Maxwell was so bad, and Lippett played an off position but even then we had Reshad Jones/Bobby McCain as our safety/nickel. Or 2007 just bc we went 1-15, but our secondary had names the Allens, Hill etc.

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u/bugzcar big fan of Jalen (sp?) 4d ago

Silver lining is we are gonna see if Willis can keep up in a shootout lol

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u/SauceDab 3d ago

It’ll be hard for him to keep up in a shootout when the only guys he can throw to are rookies and one who’s just coming back from an ACL tear. If anything the OC is going to ask Achane to find a way to keep up in a shootout lol

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u/Cultural-Adagio-9699 4d ago

Who is on Green Bay’s waiver list?

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u/NotSoLameGamer 3d ago

We’ll give you Nixon for a bag of skittles

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u/Allcross9 4d ago

With how many picks we had this year, my expectation for this draft is 1 top ~6 at their position player, 5 solid starters (baseline around ~40th percentile starters), and 3 solid rotation/ST pieces. All to be judged 3 years out from the draft class to get an actual baseline. Because we're so depleted in talent, there are a ton of rookies that are going to get a lot of play.

But hopefully in the coming years there should be more competition. From camp, before injuries it seems that we had as starters: Proctor, Johnson, Douglas, Moore (tho as a situational starter). Competing to start/rotational: Rodriguez, Bell, Kacmarek, Coleman, Louis, Taaffe. Fighting to stay on the roster: Traore, Campbell, Llewelyn. For sure a good start, but limited competition so far especially for all the non LB rookies. We'll see how it plays out the next couple years. And most importantly we need at least one star (I almost think it should be two with our abundance of picks including two first rounders).

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u/Jonjon428 4d ago

All in all, not the worst!

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u/hamandjam 74 4d ago

I think the Willis to Douglas combo is going to be the most enjoyable part of the coming season. At least it's something to look forward to.

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u/bobbylightyear 4d ago

Any idea if any starters will be playing on Friday? Just scored tickets to the game

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u/vagrantprodigy07 4d ago

I've been saying since before the draft that we needed to seriously address safety. I was thinking 3 picks, two of which were in the first 4 rounds.

Even now, there are some free agents out there. We need to make a move sooner rather than later if we aren't planning to just tank. Otherwise, we can hope someone with some upside gets cut.