The Dolphins had a strange draft that is getting mixed reviews. After going for need in the first round and drafting CB Vontae Davis of illinois the draft went nowhere near where most people thought the Fins were going to go. Miami surprised everyone with the Pat White pick, a QB from West Virginia that in a best case scenario will play 5 snaps a game out of the wildcat position. They did manage to grab another good CB in Sean Smith of Utah at the end of round two. They reached, according to the "experts" for two WRs in the 3rd and fourth round (WR PAtrick Turner of USC and WR Brian Hartline of Ohio State) and then picked a TE and a Safety with their two 5th rounders - TE John Nalbone of Monmouth and S Chris Clemons of Clemson, they finished the draft by picking OT Andrew Gardner of Georgia Tech in the 6th round and LB JD Folsom of Webster State in the last round.

I'll explain why I am not in love with the Pat White pick - First I'll say I never watched White play, I'm sure he is a very good QB and I trust the front office. That being said, let's be honest we don't know what draft pick will pan out and what pick will turn out to be a complete bust. Let's assume that the front office hits on EVERY player and they know best. The only way to evaluate the picks is to assume a best case scenario for each pick. My thinking is the players picked in the first 3 rounds should be able to have the potential to someday become starters for the Dolphins (if you hit on the pick).
Yes, It's true that Patriots all-world QB Tom Brady was a 6th rounder but let's face it most good players were picked in the first 3 rounds.

We'll take a look at the Dolphins. They have 12 starters on offense (including Ricky) - 6 SIX! were first rounders Long, Carey, Pennington, Brown, Ginn and Ricky (the Saints gave up a hole draft for him...), 3 were second rounders (Grove, Smiley and Fasano) and only 3 were picked outside of the first 2 rounds - the FB ,which teams (even the Raiders) never pick in the draft since the Carter administration, RG Donald Thomas (let's hold the applause after he finishes a single pro game) and Bess/Camarillo and most Dolfans wanted them to pick a WR in the first round for that reason exactly. That's 75% of the offensive starters were picked in the top 2 rounds.

Let's look at the defense Will Allen and Jason Allen were first round selections, Roth and Merling second rounders, Langford, Porter, Crowder and Ayodele were all third round picks. that's a total of 8 of 11 in the first 3 rounds, Gibril Wilson was a 5th rounder and Jason Ferguson a 7th rounder. Yeremiah Bell a sixth rounder (mainly because of an injury in his senior year). The total is 17 of 23 - almost 74% - of the Dolphin current starters were picked in the first 3 rounds of the draft. In other words a pick in the first 3 rounds should, at least, have the potential to become a regular starter, QB Pat White will never be a starter for the Dolphins. He is not going to beat out Chad Henne or Chad Pennington and that's why I think it's a pick a franchise like the Pats can do but not Miami, the Fins have a lot of holes to fill, by the way, going just after White were talented (again according to "experts") OLB Sintim and Barwin - we could have used the help in the sack departemnt, Joey Porter will not have another 17.5 sack season... I'll be very very happy with 11. That's just my opinion. I am very happy with the two CBs, I hope at least one of them becomes a solid starter.

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The Miami Dolphins announced the hiring Tony Sparano as the 8th head coach in franchise history and the 5th in the last 5 years. The deal is beleived to be for 4 years at around 11 million dollars. Sparano was with the Cowboys the last 5 years, 4 of them coaching under Bill Parcells. He has also worked with Ireland the past 5 years in Dallas. He was the play caller in Parcells' final year, 2006 and this past year he was named assitant head coach and he was also in charge for the O-line.

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