changed dramatically. There's a great vibe there. There's
a sense they could be a playoff Contender, they had a great
winning streak last year late in the season. There's been
some talk about their franchise tag tight end
being available in trade, and I think the report was that
they're bringing up his name in conversations with other teams.
Now, some people get upset about that because your
franchise tag, the guy, what are you doing trading? And
well,
you, you can trade it
now. The new team can't sign into a long term contract,
the July 15 deadline has come and gone. But in theory, he could
be aided
and the fact that he would only be under contract this year
would impact the trade value. Here's Mike McDaniel, head,
coach of the Miami Dolphins talking to reporters yesterday
about this rumor. That the Dolphins may be willing to move
on from mikasuki.
These reports are tricky to me because I'm like,
you know, again I've alluded to this before beginning
the offseason
like
during the training camp during the office off season in
general
like gee. I have work to do and they're not just watching us
coach.
So when people report that somebody is you know
when they use the
that loose verbiage of all right, well
yeah,
they've been his name's been brought up or whatever,
you know. I mean
the report is kind of misleading because like they're
probably should be a lot of names on that report,
all I'm focused on and that's, you know, Regardless of what
people try to drum up, like
I'm focused on coaching Mike Mike's focused on getting better
and and look, I McDaniel's in a tough spot.
The general manager of a team is responsible for moving
the pieces on the chessboard and sometimes it's in the best.
Interest of the team to move a piece off the chessboard. Maybe
get sticky is a luxury. They don't need this year,
especially if they can flip him for
draft pick. Gar to fill the void created by the one they
lost for tampering with Tom Brady.
And if they let him walk away as a free agent after
the season they get compensatory draft pick consideration
the following year but you get a more immediate return. If you
can flip get sticky now and if you don't think you're going to
sign into a long-term deal,
it is something worth thinking about and Mike McDaniel is in
a tough spot Because unless and until it gets sticky, is traded
McDaniel is responsible for getting the most out of him.
Good luck. Getting the most out of him, if he's constantly
thinking he's about
to be traded. So
I think you handled it well and I think he probably handles it
well behind the scenes with koseki but you know the reality
is if you're going to talk about a player on your team
with Executives from other teams, you better be sure. You
trust them not to blab because some do and some don't
and it sounds like somebody was blabbing about conversations
with Dolphins. GM, Chris Greer, Shireen,
Yeah, it sure does. Mike and, and they're trying to turn him
into something that he's really maybe not capable of doing, but
definitely something different than what he's ever done.
They're trying to make him more of a traditional tied in.
That's not what he did last
year. He led all tight ends with 412 snaps in the slot.
He's a receiving tight end. 730 yards seventy three,
receptions, two, touchdowns last season, he's not that
great of a Blocker in there, trying to get him to block. So
he doesn't exactly fit their offense and what
Asking them to do, if that's what they're going to continue
to ask him to do so, you know, when he played in that
preseason game extended time, last week that led to
the questions that in the fact that they're trying to ask him to do
something that he's
never done in the NFL before in his career. So
that's led to all these questions about what his future is
along with the fact that they did franchise tag
him. If they were going to ask him to play the traditional
tight end position, you would think that they wouldn't have
used the franchise tag on him.
But now they did and maybe they figured out that he doesn't
exactly fit that and it's time to get what you can for him and
move on
when you have a new coaching staff. When you have a new
offense, you have to ask yourself, does the player that
we have 50 offense? Are we willing to tailor the offense
to fit the player? And there's gonna be a lot of running
plays, there's going to be a lot of blocking expected. You
need that guy like a George
kiddo who can block effectively and who will block effectively
and who will go catch passes. And you need that, you need
that to keep the Guessing
when you have a tight end that can do both on the field.
You can sell the idea that any given player is going to be
a runner or pass because it's around, get sick. He's going to
come knock you on your butt like kittel does. And if that's
just not what he he's wired to do. And I remember when Jimmy,
Graham was traded to Seahawks Shireen and
there were reports from people in the building that they're
dismayed that
Jimmy. Graham isn't more of a blocker.
Well, you knew that when you trade it for him
you knew that going in
that there's two types of tight ends. Well, three blocking only
catching only and both.
And they need both
in Miami. They wanted both out of Jimmy Graham unreasonably
because that's not what he does. And so that may be
the easy answer the question. So you save ten point nine million
in cash and cap space,
you get
trade value for next year. Help offset, the first round pick
that you lost for rampantly and stupidly tampering with Tom,
Brady and then,
and then you move forward. So, it's a possibility,
we'll see, if any,
anyone wants him will see if they work something out, it's
getting kind of late in the day. Day,
it's not real. Easy
to put a pass, catch you into an offense.
In late August early, September,
and expect him to make an impact.
And when you're getting on a one-year deal,
if you're not going to get an impact, now, you may never get
an impact.