NFL Draft Buzz: Mike Mayock breaks down the Miami Dolphins options at 12th pick

[Dmarino110]

Question for everyone who wants an olineman. How many points has Jake long scored for us?
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[Fin Thirteen]

Question for everyone who wants an olineman. How many points has Jake long scored for us?
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Great point. We should purge our roster of these wastes-of-salary and put 5 receivers in at the line of scrimmage. Hell, why even have a line at all (ok that last bit could be problematic from a rules and ball-snap perspective). But the point still stands. WE DO NOT NEED THESE STUPID LINEMEN WHO NEVER SCORE TDs.

[marlinfan]

Great point. We should purge our roster of these wastes-of-salary and put 5 receivers in at the line of scrimmage. Hell, why even have a line at all (ok that last bit could be problematic from a rules and ball-snap perspective). But the point still stands. WE DO NOT NEED THESE STUPID LINEMEN WHO NEVER SCORE TDs.

Let me play Devil's Advocate here.

Remember David Carr's time while in Houston? I remember him. On his back. A lot.

That's why you have linemen.

[phinman1]

Time for everyone to get on Mayock's jock. Not me. Remember, he was the guy who LOVED the Pat White pick. I mean he was gushing. Just another guy sounding sure about things he can't possibly predict.

[beast_mode]

IMHO, Tyler Eifert is our best option in the 1st round. He's a beast catching the football and has improved his blocking considerably. He will help both our running and passing most out of any player available. We could try to trade down and may still get him lower but I think we should not risk it and target this guy.

[Etuoo33]

We have traded down enough... it's time to get one of the top play makers that are generally available in the top third of the draft. We had to trade down in the past because this team was so lacking in talent, we needed bodies, now we need playmakers,

[TrinidadDolfan]

Question for everyone who wants an olineman. How many points has Jake long scored for us?
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Good oberservation and good point.
Yes, linemen are important, but everything changes when you have real weapons on the field.

[LDaniel7]

OL makes a HUGE difference -- only slightly less than DL, imo. HOWEVER, the NFL is a game where milliseconds are the difference between successful plays and sacks.

See how this plays out on the field: If you have a Hartline as your top WR, who has to do double and triple moves in order to get open -- and this sometimes even coming BACK to the line of scrimmage or to the sideline! -- and it takes him that extra second or 1.5 seconds -- heck, even .5 second -- to get open, how much pressure does this put on an OL? HUGE. Now, take a great team such as San Fran or Baltimore... in half the time that Hartline is running slowly around John Brown's barn to get open, they are flying by people downfield or automatically open with a huge cushion, right off the LOS. Or breaking free on a quick slant due to speed and skill [and respect]. Worlds of difference... YES the offensive line matters [San Fran had the best OL in football, btw, imo]. But without good skill players, the OL is doing an impossible task.

Case in point: Baltimore won the Superbowl with McKinney at OT. How? with Jacoby Jones running a 4.2-3 40 and Torrey Smith a 4.3-something 40 and Anquan Boldin able to outjump or outmuscle balls thrown to covered situations -- win, win and win -- when milliseconds count.

OL matters big time, but only in order to other skill positions on the field -- skill positions that tip the fractional seconds of success in favor of the good guys, and not the other way around.

LD

[Geordie]

I like Mayock but he really doesn't say anything of any note in that, that shows an understanding of our needs and directed specifically at the dolphins. It's amazing that a pundit's views are so widely respected that he is in a position to grant media hacks 2.5 hours of his precious time, so they can devote masses of column space to what he utters.