Miami Dolphins all-time favorite players by position

Defenses can be difficult because through history there has been 4-3, 3-4, and even a 5-3/5-2 scheme. There is nickel and dime packages. I’ll keep it easy.

Defensive tackles:  Tim Bowens, Bob Baumhower, 

While Bowens was not part of the 1980’s “Killer B’s” defense but he would have been if he was playing in the NFL at that time. Baumhower was a part of that 80’s defense.

Defensive end 1: Jason Taylor

The only player in Dolphins history that I pounded my first for in the draft, that they actually drafted.

Defensive end 2: Trace Armstrong

I get asked a lot why Cam Wake doesn’t make my favorites list. I like Wake but there are other DE’s that I like more and Trace Armstrong is one of them. Armstrong was an amazing athlete off the edge and can be credited with helping develop Taylor.

Linebackers: Bob Brudzinski, John Offerdahl, Bryan Cox, Zach Thomas

Brudzinski? Yes, during his playing days I was a lot younger. He went to the same high-school that my dad and mother went to in a very small town in northern Ohio. Needless to say when we visited that small town, it was a big deal to see where he grew up.

Offerdahl is probably my favorite Dolphins linebacker ever. I met him his rookie year outside the locker room in Cleveland when I was a teen. His arm was in a sling and he couldn’t sign an autograph for me. Some 30 years later, he signed a card for me at one of his restaraunts in Miami. While he had lunch with a few of us.

Secondary: Sam Madison, Glenn and Lyle Blackwood, Dick Anderson, Jake Scott, Louis Oliver

I’m more of a safety guy than a corner guy as you can tell. Madison is my favorite corner to have ever played and his teaming with Patrick Surtain was incredible. Anderson and Scott were amazing safeties in the 70’s but I always tip my hat to the Blackwood brothers who I loved watching play in the 80’s. Oliver? I can still hear him hitting someone.

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