By Dolphins Talk,Mike Oliva
Copyright yardbarker
As the Miami Dolphins’ season is heading south quickly, fans will begin to turn their attention to next April’s NFL Draft.
The fine folks at Tankathon have begun each Sunday updating the draft order after the games have been played, and as of today, the Dolphins currently hold the 3rd overall pick of the draft.
Now it’s September, so to take that seriously is silly.
But, it does lead to some reasonable speculation: if Miami has a Top 5 pick, what do they do?
The answer is easy: you draft a quarterback.
You see, the reason you have a Top 5 pick is because you have a problem with your current quarterback.
And yes, Miami’s secondary is garbage, and the offensive line needs more quality bodies, and the pass rush looks old, slow, and past its prime for the most part.
But in the NFL, there are two types of teams: Teams with a Franchise QB and Teams Searching for their Franchise QB.
SPOILER ALERT: If Miami has a Top 5 pick, they are in the category of teams searching for their franchise QB.
Like it’s not even up for a debate, and I have seen fans on social media balk at this notion.
My message to those fans: WAKE UP!
Here are a few reasons why IF (again IF) Miami has a Top 5 pick, they are taking a quarterback.
You Don’t Expect to be Picking This High in the Draft Again
No owner, GM, or coach goes into work HOPING to have a pick in the Top 5 or Top 10 of the NFL Draft. But if you are in that situation, you maximize it and you find your franchise quarterback if you don’t have one. Of course, you can find a franchise QB in Round 2 or later in Rd 1, but picking near the top of the draft gives you an edge over everyone else. Hey, if you can trade down, get some picks, and still get your guy, great.
If you have to sit where you are to take him, fine.
And if you have to part with something to get to pick #2 or #1, you do it.
Especially with the situation Miami will be in, most likely with a new head coach and new general manager. You get your franchise quarterback and the face of your franchise day 1, and go from there.
Tua’s Contract is too big To Move. You have to keep him.
This is the NFL; no contract is too big to move on from. Yeah, it will be painful, but again, this will be year 1 for a new head coach and GM (most likely), so take the big cap hit then, get past it in your honeymoon year, and then move on.
Plus, the QB you are replacing him with is a rookie on a rookie contract. I also think a lot of people from the “Cult of Tua” who can’t accept he isn’t “the guy” or he isn’t “HIM” as the kids say, use this excuse as a way to lie to themselves to keep him as a member of the Dolphins.
Plus, just use common sense.
The new Miami Dolphins head coach and the new general manager didn’t draft Tua Tagovailoa; they would have seen Tua get the last TWO head coaches fired in Miami.
They don’t want to be saddled with him even for one season; you want a clean break and a fresh start.
(and here is the one that annoys me the most)
The Offensive Line is still bad, so why Draft Another QB
Oh, I don’t know, because SMART NFL PEOPLE (we haven’t had a smart GM in a long while) can multitask and walk and chew gum at the same time.
It’s not an either-or situation.
You can draft a QB in Round 1, and fix your o-line through free agency, trades, and your other draft picks, rounds 2 through 7.
Drafting a quarterback at the top of Round 1 doesn’t preclude you from addressing other positions on the roster that need to be fixed.
Just because Chris Grier has never done it doesn’t mean there isn’t another way to do things.
Too many Dolphins fans have been brainwashed by Grier.
