(09-17-2019, 05:38 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Maybe this isn't new but it sure seems to be front and center this season. First AB and his special brand of crazy (who, IMHO with Oakland releasing him, set a dangerous precedent for players to behave like total nutjobs just to get their way); Jalen Ramsey's agent is shopping him around because everyone knows Ramsey is apoplectic; now this dude is unhappy. I get wanting to be competitive and be on a winning team but honor your commitment to the team that gave you a job. 

 Miami player says he's unhappy and wants out and he's traded to the Steelers.

"If I ran the Miami Dolphins, I wouldn’t have traded Minkah Fitzpatrick. He represents the exact kind of 22-year-old player the Dolphins need. You don’t just give up on that because he says, “I’m unhappy.”

So Fitzpatrick wanted to be traded?

So what?

And big deal that the Dolphins got the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round pick next spring in the trade. Let’s play this out. Maybe they get lucky with that pick. Maybe Pittsburgh (0-2) keeps losing without starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who is out for the season after suffering an elbow injury. Maybe that becomes a top-10 draft pick.

Maybe they can turn that into a player like, you know, Minkah Fitzpatrick, who the Dolphins drafted 11th in 2018.

I’m dizzy already from this revolving-door rebuild......"

AB cost himself millions by getting released by the Raiders.  So that's not really a good example.  No one in their right mind would want to do that.  

And the Dolphins may have some grand plan in place to trade a bunch of picks to move up in the draft and get a QB.  So the Fitzpatrick trade might actually make some sense if it works out that way.

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