The Miami Dolphins are not 0-7, the Miami Dolphins are 0-56. Do you sit and blame Cam Cameron for this mess, for his one off-season of decisions? What about Randy Mueller and his first year as a real General Manager? Do you blame Nick Saban for running to Alabama? Who do you blame? You can start with the man pictured to the right. You can pretty much end it there as well.
| Year | Players Drafted | Players Traded For | Players Acquired | Players left on 53-man roster |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| 2002 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 2003 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| Total | 46 | 10 | 56 | 0 |
The answer to the woes of the Miami Dolphins is actually pretty clear. It is a culmination of bad drafts, worse trades, and some very very bad cap management. It is Dave Wannstedt.
According to Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, the demise of the Dolphins can be summed up nicely in the number 56.
The above numbers do not lie. The Dolphins have managed ZERO in a 6 year span.
Sure there was a spattering of players in there, most recently Chris Chambers, but realistically, the above numbers are about as real as you can get. And fans wonder why we can’t compete, why we are sitting where we are at today. The Dolphins have a coach who inherited more than a mess, they inherited nothing. They are rebuilding from nothing. And to do it, they had almost nothing to spend.
This team has a lot of holes and a lot of issues, but blaming Cameron and blaming Mueller isn’t going to cut it anymore. The numbers just don’t lie. What amazes me the most about those figures is the fact that not only do we have nothing to show for them, but our cap structure has been such that we have to cut people yearly just to get under it. What exactly were we paying for?
For what it is worth, compared to those years, the numbers since have improved. We have 3 players from the 2004 roster, and 2 of those are starting on the offensive line. Vernon Carey and Rex Hadnot, the other player is 7th round LB Derrick Pope.
In 2005, 5 of the 6 players drafted are still on the team and 4 are starters. 3 picks in that draft were traded away by the previous management staff.
There are 4 players remaining from the 6 drafted in ‘06.
If you want to know what kind of difference that makes, look north to New England, I would do it myself, but I’m just too sick to bother.
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Wow, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why we suck so bad!! 0-56!! The sad part is that there are probably only a couple of those players even still in the league. It’s time that we start accumulating draft picks and unfortunately that means trying to move JT in the off season. As much as I HATE to see him go, he is in all likelihood only going to play a couple of seasons (if that) so if we can get any value we need to pull the trigger on that one….just not to the frickin Patriots!
Yeah, with the exception of a few players, like Chambers, most of those players drafted that are no longer here, never made much of an impact on this team. What really gets you steaming is when you look at the amount of picks traded for nothing. The Phins routinely would trade out of a round and then use the gained picks to move up in the next. Trade a 1st for a 2nd and 3rd. Trade the 2nd and 3rd to move up in round 2? Makes zero sense to me.
Do you guys remember when the bears fans warned us of the franchise killing capabilities of Dave Wannstedt. We refused to listen and look now in the massive hole we have gotten ourselves into. So, the only thing to do now is just suck it up and give the front office a chance now to rebuild this once pround franchise.any comments?
True. That’s all we can do right now. Ride this out and give the new regime a chance to fix this mess.