Thread: Ross Waffles on Comments About Marshall...............

That's a little more like it. About time somebody called the old coots bluff. Somebody cut and paste this in a PM and send it to Mikey's butt buddy Broncosfan who thinks we screwed up. LOL

I hear he eats breakfast at "Brett Favre's Waffle House".

I think there's a statement within a statement here too as it relates to the rumors about Forte.

If the Dolphins couldn’t have traded Marshall in the offseason, it is likely they would have brought him to training camp to see if a trade market might develop for him after teams started losing players to injuries.

The same thing could be said about Forte. It would make no sense to trade him for far less than his value now when his value just prior to or in the early hours of the draft might be at it's highest. Sometimes all it takes is for a team to miss out on a player they wanted to be willing to trade that pick for a top player at another position where they have a need that can't be filled in the draft. There's only one sure fire 1st round RB in this draft so after Richardson no other player would rate anything more than a late 1st or early 2nd at undoubtedly Forte is a far better back.

The other window of opportunity if he still hasn't shown up for camp is in the preseason where if a team loses their starter to a season ending injury the price they'd be willing to pay goes up and maybe we can swap for a player we need or a combo or player and pick. If we were to trade him this would be about the worst time I could think of to do it. The Dolphins found that out.

He was doing nothing more than pandering to the Phins fan base that are upset over loosing the only player that moved the chains in 2011 for them.

Does anyone really buy into the Dolphins cutting a WR that had 81 receptions in 2011? Second place Davone Bess had 51 receptions.

Marshall had over 1,200 yards. Thats more than double anyone on the team.

Seriously, traded was the only smart move. Cut? Never... Well, we'd probably cut a player like that.. haha

Originally Posted by Ski-Whiz

Does anyone really buy into the Dolphins cutting a WR that had 81 receptions in 2011? Second place Davone Bess had 51 receptions.

Marshall had over 1,200 yards. Thats more than double anyone on the team.

Seriously, traded was the only smart move. Cut? Never... Well, we'd probably cut a player like that.. haha

With any other team it would seem completely ridiculous but with the Phins only moderately ridiculous. What's Ross's real business. Whatever it is he must be far more successful at it than he is owning an NFL franchise. I think they're taking over from the Cards of yesterday and the Bears of the 90's as one of the worst run organizations in the NFL.

The rumor, for whatever that's worth, is that the Phins wanted to unload Marshall to free up cap space to pursue Manning and bring his Indy WR's with him. While that makes some sense I think they would have needed to clear out more than just Marshall for that to happen. I'd need to go back and look at the exact sequence of events but I'm betting Emery struck before Manning chose Denver and while Miami thought they might still be in the hunt and Ireland was under directions to unload him if he could.

Originally Posted by lklrlolnlilklsox

Knox had 727, but I guess it counts if you consider the fact that he's unlikely to make any sort of impact next season.

Kind of sad to think that his career may be over. I guess I was too optimistic about the earlier prognosis. Well this will be Hester's opportunity to either prove he can handle the down-field threat role or chuck it in for good as an effective WR.

I'm actually wondering that with Tice running the offense just how much down-field throwing we'll do. He had Moss in Minny and since he wouldn't go over the middle there was no choice but to use him along the sidelines but that's not the case with this bunch. I remember that he loved to throw quick slants against us and try to split the Safeties for big gainers and I'm wondering if Hester can handle that role better than Knox could which was pretty much not at all.

Originally Posted by draw2anderson35

He was doing nothing more than pandering to the Phins fan base that are upset over loosing the only player that moved the chains in 2011 for them.

..... cuz if someone wants your vote or your money, there's a good chance they're lying to you.