Miami Dolphins All-Decade team has good but not great talent
By Brian Miller
In 2008, Bill Parcells took over the Miami Dolphins and immediately went to work building the team through the trenches. As it was stated back then, you build from the inside out. The problem, he failed miserably.
As the turn of the decade came in 2010, the Dolphins still were struggling with identity and so much more. The Wild Cat took the 2008 team to the post-season but it was a failed scheme after that and one that Miami held on to for too long. Could it have been the offensive line? If we could rebuild it, how might it look?
Center: No other center that has played in the last ten years was better than Mike Pouncey and that stands true today as we shift towards the next decade.
Right tackle: Ja’Wuan James was serviceable. At his best, he was really good but he was inconsistent too. Still, given the number of right tackles that the Dolphins have gone through, James at his best was better than anyone else who has lined up there the last 10 years.
Right guard: Vernon Carey was not a big favorite of mine but I can’t discount the consistent play and longevity that he had. He played for only one team in the NFL and never left S. Florida coming in as a product of the U.
Left guard: Richie Incognito was a mean trench road grading guard with an attitude. Ultimately his off-field personality cost him his job in Miami but we are not the Dolphins and we don’t shun him from our list. Incognito was everything that the Dolphins needed at guard. He could pull and knock the snot out of a defender. Laremy Tunsil gained a bit of consideration but only played one season at the position.
Left tackle: Laremy Tunsil’s work at the position should have been on display this year but he was traded. Still, he was better with a higher ceiling than Jake Long who was injured quite often, and Branden Albert who had a short stay as well.