Greg Cote

You're obsessed with how much greater Reuben Bain is going to be than Caden Proctor.

Everybody else in America has moved past that but you.

The Dolphins had a good draft.

They had the most picks in the league, and they hit the positions they needed hard.

They drafted eight different positions.

They needed four more than most others, and they hit those four hard.

That's another factor I made in the column you're maligning, is that this is going to be a running team.

This is a running team with Devon Achan, and for a change, they have a mobile quarterback.

They're not going to be throwing the ball 30 times a game.

And so to Mike's point, an offensive lineman with this kind of upside is going to be more valuable to your identity on offense.

But you just drafted a 20-year-old lineman with astronomical upside who's going to be your stalwart blocker, along with Patrick Paul, when they are good.

They're planning for when they are good, not just to get through the next year.

The last time I looked, Arizona and Miami were at the bottom of the over-under on wins at 4.5.

Which means, whether they like it or not, they don't have to tank to be bad, the Dolphins.

Well, Malik Washington and probably Chris Bell.

Obviously, they're in as major a rebuild as they've been in, in my memory.

They spent a combined 12 to 15 years under the spell of Ryan Tannehill and then Tua Tungabaloa, two quarterbacks who were just good enough to always make you say, are they good enough?

Neither one was good enough.

Okay, they finally realized that.

uh... the the reason that that you never heard of anybody on the roster is that the owners to a contract which they're still stuck with in trying to get out from under prevented them to sign anybody with that in mind getting malik willis was a big deal okay they got a quality quarterback who instantly moved above quinn ewers as their starter he's going to be a good stop back quarterback for a couple years while they get decent and and the bonus