OMG! The Dullphins Picked the Guy Everybody Passed on

[joeybee12]

What an incredibly inept organization!

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/sfl-miami-dolphins-first-round-pick-2016-20160428-story.html

Oh well, it takes their minds off the cheating baseball team!

[trotsky]

1. ...

[joeybee12]

2. Post this vereywhere! It's great!

Can I make it into my avatar???

[El Supremo]

4. !!!!!!

[In_The_Wind]

5. I love it!

[Scurrilous]

52. Well, that explains the last four decades...

[KamaAina]

3. Well, at least he won't be able to find any herb in Miami

[bluedigger]

6. Bunch of hypocrites, the lot of them.

Like all those guys in the draft rooms weren't toking up in college. Sure.

[Auggie]

7. They might also have picked up the biggest bargain in the draft ...

I could be really mean and remind you that at least they had a pick ...

but I won't.

How are the rescues doing?

[joeybee12]

8. Gonna try and trap two kittens this weekend...

I think they're about five weeks old...want one?

[Auggie]

9. My rescue would object

She's very happy being an only cat.

Good luck.

[GeorgeGist]

10. Stupid shits ...

[hughee99]

18. Well, since we're talking Dolphins...

[trumad]

21. One of the best backs ever

[hughee99]

23. Yes, he was a great back. I'm sure Miami would have liked to get more than 45 starts out of him

in the 8 years they had him.

[trumad]

24. You just lost the debate.

8 years?

[hughee99]

25. How many years was he on Miami's roster for?

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WillRi00.htm

2002
2003
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

By my count, that's EIGHT years. One of which he had to sit out completely as a result of his own behavior.

[trumad]

26. 6

[hughee99]

28. He played in seven different seasons and spent

One year on suspension, not injured. Would the fins have liked him to play that year? You bet. And he would have if not for some "character issues". The kind of issues this whole thread is about.

[trumad]

34. Character issues?

The guy smoked weed. He didn't murder anyone or cheat .

[hughee99]

36. The guy wasn't able to stop doing something that he knew would get him suspended.

He didn't lose a season for his first offense, or his second offense. He wasn't unaware of what the possible consequences of smoking weed are. No one "slipped" pot into his system without his knowledge. Look I don't care about weed at all, and I'd be fine if the NFL stopped caring about it too, but if you tell a player not once, not twice but MANY MANY times that if they keep doing it they'll get suspended and they keep doing it anyway, you can't blame ANYONE else for it. It's the player's fault, and their inability or unwillingness to stop doing it despite the consequences is absolutely a character issue.

Williams would have played a lot more games, ran for a lot more yards, and helped the Dolphins to more wins if not for his "love of the leaf".

[trumad]

37. Ricky Williams ran 780 times in two seasons with this Phins.

That was an NFL record. Dave Wannatedt ran the guy into the ground because that is all Wannstedt had.

No...Ricky Williams fucking quit the first time because he was battered and had nothing left in the tank.

yoi really don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

[hughee99]

39. EIGHT FUCKING SEASONS.

He was on their roster for EIGHT fucking seasons. After the first two seasons were he was run into the ground, no doubt, he was on Miami's roster for 6 MORE seasons. Are you really suggesting that one of the best backs ever has "nothing left in the tank" after his first 5 seasons in the NFL, but went on to play for your team for 5 more seasons (also one suspended season and one year off) anyway?

That seems like an awfully short career, if you only count his first 5 seasons, for one of the "best backs ever".

[trumad]

40. Not really sure of your point?

Are you saying Williams lacked character?

[hughee99]

41. I'm suggesting that he had character issues.

The kind of personality issues that would give most GM's some cause for concern on draft day. Every team has guys like this. I'm not trying to imply that there was something more wrong with Williams than many other players, but if a player knows they can't do something or they'll get suspended, are told this over and over and do it anyway, I don't see how it can't be considered a character issue.

[JonLP24]

53. 700 plus carries is a lot in two years

Try running into big tackles, ends, and linebackers 300+ carries. Most backs break down, injured, and fall apart. Taking the break was much needed.

As far as character issues he was probably one of the more easy to get along with guys in the NFL

[madinmaryland]

29. WTF? Are you a freeper? What the fuck is wrong with pot?

Why are we persecuting people for using pot, when Johhny Football can go out and get hammered on booze.

Now if we are talking about PEDS and the ROID Sox, that's a different matter. That is CHEATING.

[hughee99]

33. What's wrong with pot?

If you get caught smoking it, the nfl suspends you. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do. When your team loses a star player for a pot suspension, are you okay with it?

[trumad]

38. No...he's a fucking Pat's fan.

And everyone knows the rocks they throw while living in a glass house.

I find it stunning that they even open their pie holes.

[hughee99]

42. Says the Dolphins fan who complains about the Pats

Signing "low character" free agents. I bow to your expertise on glass houses.

[trumad]

43. Like I said..

Take a poll and ask what NFL team is considered the cheatingest team.

[hughee99]

44. Which is, of course, irrelevant to this thread.

Also, I don't think the "cheatingest team" is determined by popular vote. All teams have signed players of questionable character, and all teams have had cheating scandals going back decades. Is your issue really the cheating? I'm starting to think your issue isn't the cheating or you'd be a little more upset when other teams do it.

They have just as many glass houses in New England as they do in Florida.

[trumad]

45. Do a poll...I dare you

[hughee99]

46. Since "cheatingest team" isn't determined by popular vote, what does it matter, but

I'll concede that if polled HERE the Patriots would win an a landslide.

I have a question for you though. As our local holy crusader for sports virtue and one of our only very small number of Marlins fans, I was fascinated by your thread on Dee Gordon.

Sorry, I see you've been busy with other things and didn't make one. Dee Gordon is the guy from the Marlins that got bagged 80 games for steroids. Now I don't expect everyone that disapproves of cheating to post ever time someone gets caught, but as someone who takes such issue with it and the almost the only person here who shows any interest in the Marlins, I thought for sure this would have been the topic of one of your many, many OPs. Okay, fair enough. But surely you felt compelled to chime in in the post that's already there, right? No, I guess not.

In any case, that's for making my point that cheating is only important to you SOMETIMES (when it's the Patriots).

[trumad]

47. Uhhh---Baseball

I see Ortiz had a warm and fuzzy story about some sick kid this last week. I wonder if he knows his hero is a cheater as well.

[hughee99]

48. See, thank you for reinforcing my point.

You spend a lot of time on the sports forum discussing the scourge of cheating, but it's only actuall important to you when it's a team you dislike. I haven't, and probably wouldn't, have commented on the Gordon thing at all, except that it provided me the opportunity to highlight your hypocrisy. Sorry, the price you have to pay for constantly calling out other teams cheating is that you don't get to slink when your own team gets caught.

[trumad]

49. LOL---

I love smacking around Boston fans. So much fucking fun.

[hughee99]

50. I'm sure you do. If it ever actually happens, I'd love to see it. n/t

[bluedigger]

51. Fuck a meaningless online poll.

Everybody hates New England because they've all been getting their asses kicked by them for the last 15 years.

The objective evidence says your Miami Chum cheat half again as much as the Patriots, 30 - 20. http://yourteamcheats.com/

[trumad]

11. This is Joey level of smack talk.

Let's see...Marino was passed until the 26th pick because of drug rumors, etc. Warren Sapp plumented in the draft because of reefer. What do those two have in common?

HOF

Now let's talk about Aaron Hernandez character. Nah lets don't ...tooooo fucking easy.

Joey don't try to run smack with me.... You'll lose every time or simply put me on ignore.

[joeybee12]

12. How's your buddy Ray Lewis doing?

One of the more outstanding graduates of the University of Miami.

[trumad]

13. Didn't Randy Moss have a reefer issue.

Lewis didn't play for the Phins. Wasn't drafted by the Phins. Hernandez had a big time shady character when he was drafted by the Cheater.

[joeybee12]

14. Yeah, but he didn't tweet it to the world...nt

[trumad]

15. Ok...then how is it public knowledge?

[joeybee12]

16. Judgment buddy, look up the word...nt

[trumad]

17. How did Moss shit get public.

Cheater Bill grabs a Free Agent with low character---I'm shocked.

[hughee99]

19. Pats are always taking low character people.

It's a wonder Lawrence Phillips, Cecil Collins, and Ritchie Incognito never played for them. Not even Phillip Merling who was arrested for aggravated battery against his pregnant girlfriend.

I think the Pats should try harder to get the same high quality human beings the Dolphins have been signing for years.

On Edit: How could I forget Brandon Marshall

[trumad]

20. And if you were to say what team is the cheatingest team in the league...

Well there you go.

[hughee99]

22. Don't want to talk about an NFL team taking on "low character" individuals anymore?

I understand why. All of the teams do. If NFL teams started dropping people with personality or character issues, there's be at least a 30% turnover on all the NFL rosters.

[mythology]

31. Aaron Hernandez, Tom Brady, Albert Haynesworth, Bill Belichick,

Rodney Harrison, Alfonzo Dennard, LaGarratte Blount, and Brandon Spikes.

Choirboys all. Not a cheater, murderer or cheapshot artist in that entire group.

[hughee99]

32. You mean more than one team has a history of signing

Low character people? You either mistook my attempt to point out that all teams do it as an attempt to suggest my team doesn't, or you just decided to ignore it. Go ahead, pick any NFL team and spend 30 seconds on Google.

[mythology]

30. No, but he recorded part of his criminal acts on his own home security cameras

and clumsily tried to delete it, which he couldn't even do that correctly.

Sort of like the Patriots tried to hide their illegal taping scheme. At least Tom Brady got it right when destroying his phone.

[trumad]

35. LOL

[JonLP24]

54. LOL

Posts like this crack me up why I miss the sports forum

[Yavin4]

27. Don't laugh. This has happened before.