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#2 Miami Dolphins
For such a long time now it feels like the Dolphins were expected to tank this upcoming season for the top pick in next year’s draft, in order to find their franchise signal-caller, and somehow everybody is still penciling them into for the number one pick in 2020, but I’m not so sure about that.
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When they traded a late second-round pick for Josh Rosen out of Arizona, they might have already found their guy. I had Rosen as my number two quarterback in last year’s draft, pretty much as 2A and 2B with Baker Mayfield, and while he definitely didn’t have the rookie season anybody would have liked him to have, I think the disregard for him is ridiculous. The numbers don’t look good at all and the Arizona offense was pretty anemic, but most of that was not on Rosen.
The offensive play-calling under Mike McCoy to start the year was a joke and only saw marginal improvement after he was fired, the offensive line situation was a mess with all the shuffling around and Larry Fitzgerald really was his only dependable target in the passing game, with David Johnson not being able to shine either.
Right now Rosen is competing with Ryan Fitzgerald for the starting job, but I would expect him to win that battle. Some of the questions arise from that situation however, because somehow everywhere Fitz goes, he finds a way to play some games and you never really know what you get from him. The Dolphins also lost key veterans in guard Josh Sitton and defensive end Robert Quinn, plus they were really quiet in free agency, which made fans suspicious about the idea of losing games on purpose.
On the other hand, they also drafted another foundation player in Clemson D-lineman Christian Wilkins to go with who I think could be a culture changer in Minkah Fitzpatrick. We don’t really know yet what we are getting from the quarterback position and I don’t see the personnel to be a really dangerous offense, but the things I know I’m getting from a Brian Flores team are toughness, attention to detail in their preparation and a well-coached defense. They could still be in the hunt for the number one overall pick come next April, but I think they could also easily be a .500 ball club.
