Dolphins Draft Thingy

im not gonna do a full blown mock draft or anything, in fact this post started as a mock trades that should be made/kinda player value, future nba player moves kinda deal. but now ive been reading mock drafts and been playing some madden so im gonna do a dolphins draft post with a free agent one to come in the future.

i believe the dolphins and chad henne in particular had too high expectations for last season. karlos dansby is a pretty good linebacker but hardly the dominating force that he's paid as. i thought jon beason may have been gettable mayb im just dreaming. chad had a pretty whatever kind of year and i expected a little more outta him but nothing to great. after all it was still only his second season starting. my disappoint is in the run game. our backs were nobody's and the play calling (which is going to get even more god awful with brian daboll) was atrocious. so lets get to the players i think they should get, not what they may actually be going for.

round one is the biggest mystery to me. its the kinda year where anyone can go anywhere. i wouldnt oppose a trade to get a lower first and a second rounder with it. my needs to go ol, dl, lb because any other position of need is a reach. but ill go a little awry, brandon harris, cb from the u. he looks so good playing and really has a knack to get stops in the run game. now i am only going corner because i think its a steal if hes available and sean smith is a better prospect at safety, he just needs to be able to see everything happen and react. now no second round pick is a real bitch because i feel they could bring in two players that would play next year with the second and third round picks. instead of two we'll only get one. its also alot harder to project whos going where so some of these picks may fluctuate completely.

Greg Jones (mich. st LB), Austin Pettis (boise st wr), demarco murray (okla RB) all seem to be projected around here. Problem is we can't get all three so who to take?? Austin Pettis is in the mix mainly because of his value if hes still available. He seems like he'll be a great number two posseion reciever. Think of Housh when he flanked chad johnson. and lets face it brain hartline and davon bess are both slot recievers, bess being the better one. Greg jones is here because he was just a machine at linebacker in college. he just does everything right, his only knock is not really making plays. well we need a second inside linebacker in the worst way and jones would be a stellar fit and make our 3-4 defense actually work. the player i will take though is demarco murray. this kid just scores. and what we need on that offense is a player who can score on a single big play. they say hes fast, i cannot judge speed in college football but he looks fast. these jammal charles and chris johnsons' are about to take over. lets get in on it now and let him be the change of pace to ronnie brown.

If any wisconsin olineman falls this far im probably taking him. but the guy i really like is D.J. Williams (ark te). chad needs some more hands and speed out there (mario manningham please?) and just who does he like in the redzone, the tight end. i wouldnt mind keeping fasano as a blocking te but you strat d.j. and let him use his speed and hands to help chad as a pacifer. now anything past round four is just unknown lets be honest here. some names that could be around there and i like are Kelvin Sheppard (lsu lb), if we miss out on greg jones, then this is who id like. he looks like a giant safety out there, i just like that maybe better as an olb. I think there may be one of these 2nd or 3rd round dt's with "problems" fall down this low and we need any potential talent we can get at DT. Ahmad black, always around the ball, big hits and secure tackler first. yerimah's replacement. Ricky Stanzi, bicep tattoo. we need a returner and a nickle corner, i dont think theres a player this low that can fill that double need but ill name some guys who could at least return kicks for us. quizz rodgers, another fast back hes got vision and speed i love him and dont care that i have two rookie speed rb's as my backups. noel devine is probably my favorite choice but i dont know if he has an offensive position. John Clay... LOL, JK. Jeremy Kerley (tcu wr) seems like a playmaker but might be slow and therefore another davon bess. sidenote i really like Jeff Maehl (oregon wr) and yes i know hes white, maybe the next julian edleman. and to be honest i dont know one corner who could be a returner maybe one of oregons dudes is coming out. anywho im up in madden.

-jason