Quote:Why on Earth are the Dolphins happy to let a good young pass rusher go and replacing him with an old guy who obviously gave up last year.

 

Because they're not smart and don't have a long term approach; "smart" teams build through the draft and do their best to lock up their homegrown talent early in the process with the hopes of locking up said talent at a discount, there is risk in doing this but the reward is bigger. The Dolphins have lost a lot of young talent (Vontae Davis, Jared Odrick, Olivier Vernon, Sean Smith etc..) because they fail to realize this. They inexplicably let their young guys walk only to replace them with veteran stopgaps, those stopgaps are usually expensive, this is why the Dolphins (every off-season) spend a lot of money in free agency, it's an idiotic approach that keeps that team mediocre with cap problems, thank god we have Shahid Khan as an owner, his patience is the reason the Jags have this incredible opportunity.

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