( A freezing Logan Ryan, photo from usatoday.com) As many of you have heard, there is a lot of buzz about the Dolphins signing corner Logan Ryan. Ryan is a 7-th year veteran that was a third-round draft pick out of Rutgers in 2013, and started his NFL career with the Patriots but played his last three with the Titans. Logan Ryan is not a long-arm, lock-down corner like Byron Jones, but he can tackle and forced four fumbles in 2019. He gets some picks - more than Byron Jones but not as many as Xavien Howard. However, one of those picks was Tom Brady's last throw as a Patriot that Ryan took in for six. That's worth something. But is it worth $10M/yr? To put this in perspective, the Dolphins have about $23M left in cap space (from overthecap.com). The secondary is currently about 20% of the salary cap ($50M of $240M) and is already filled with expensive veterans like Xavien Howard and Byron Jones (~$30M cap just for these two!). There is also about $15M of dead money fro...

(Tua is #1, photo from si.com) A question bigger than Dolphins fans, the starting of Tua Tagovailoa in 2020 is all over ESPN, CBS, Foxsports, etc, and is a constant topic of online debate. Coming off a season ending hip injury in 2019, he was unable to participate in the Combine. The Covid pandemic prevented him from having a typical pro day, but he managed to get into a gym and send all 32 teams the video (https://www.instagram.com/p/B-GThUTpZve/ ). Despite not being able to evaluate him in person, the Dolphins must have liked what they saw on the tape. And what more do the Dolphins know about Tua's medical history than the public? Probably a lot. But they also have the memory of passing on Drew Brees. (History that didn't happen, photo from si.com) Drew Brees entered free agency in 2006 with a serious shoulder injury, and Nick Saban's Dolphins were not comfortable with the risk.  Saban brought up this history before the 2020 draft when he was making his pitch for ...

Welcome Finatics! It's Tua Time!!!!! Tua!!! (Photo from www.phinphanitic.com) Hello and welcome to my new blog. It's exciting times for Fins fans after a high-rolling free agency and a whopping 2020 draft. There are so many things to discuss, but let's start with free agency. Let's talk about the secondary, and that starts with Byron Jones (Connecticut, #27 in 2015, Pro-bowl 2018). 5 yrs , $82.5 million ($54M guaranteed) contract has bought us a lock-down corner. Byron Jones thrives in man-coverage situations - and the 2019 Dolphins ran man coverage defense the 3rd most of any team. Sounds like a fit so far. While he doesn't get many picks, we still have Xavien Howard for that. Howard was tied for the most interceptions in the league in 2018. The next two signings - Shaq Lawson and Ereck Flowers - were both first round picks  (Flowers - Hurricanes, #9 in 2015 and Lawson - Clemson, #19 in 2016). Shaq Lawson has developed throughout his career, ...