Miami Dolphins presign Jake Long, draft needs fixing
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More power to Jake Long. Power, as in 58 million bucks.
That is right. 58 million smackaroonies for an offensive lineman. That is a lot of dough. That is way too much dough. Jake Long will most likely be a great left tackle, but that is too much money to spend to find that out.
Jake Long can now afford those Gucci football shoes
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The draft needs to be fixed. It is a joke to pay a football player that has not even arrived in his first camp and make him the highest paid player at his position. It is an even bigger joke to make Jake Long the highest paid lineman and make him play for Miami, a team that does not expect to win a whole lot of games.
You realize that you just punished Miami. Now a fistful of dollars are tied up in an inexperienced rookie lineman.
Hey, give credit to Miami. They knew the fix they were in and put on their best face.
Long’s total contract package is for $57.75 million, said a person familiar with the negotiations who didn’t want to be identified because the Dolphins declined to reveal terms. Last year’s top pick, JaMarcus Russell, signed for $61 million with the Oakland Raiders but missed all of training camp before reaching a deal.
Long becomes the highest-paid lineman in the NFL and a 6-foot-7, 315-pound cornerstone in a rebuilding project for the new Dolphins regime led by Bill Parcells. Last season Miami went 1-15, and the offensive line has been a chronic problem in recent years.
As a big football fan, maybe this would have been easier to digest if it was a unique skill player like JaMarcus Russell and Calvin Johnson were last year. It would have been easier to take if Matt Ryan or Darren McFadden had been a little higher rated, but this is a left tackle.
So take heart out there all of you left tackles that are protecting right handed quarterbacks… Hey, do we even know if the Miami quarterback will be right handed? Ouch! A bigger joke.
Jake Long can play
Don’t get me wrong, every team needs a great left tackle and Jake Long, from University of Michigan, has all the makings of a great left tackle. The real problem is that you should not have to pay 58 million bucks for one, especially an untested one.
The draft is so bad that other teams were not very interested in taking Miami’s pick off their hands. It is better to hamstring them with a huge contract on an inexperienced left tackle.
NFL Football special comment The draft won’t get fixed, because the players association likes it this way. It eventually raises all salaries to have a small group of rookies come in way over paid.
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