The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Here is the final injury report for Sunday's game between the Bucs and Dolphins. Both teams have some injury questions. MIAMI DOLPHINS Probable Joey Porter, LB (knee) Questionable Anthony Fasano, TE (hip) Doubtful Justin Smiley, OG (shoulder) Paul Soliai, NT (ankle) Erik Walden, LB (hamstring) Notes -Porter missed practice on Wednesday and Thursday but returned on Friday and practiced fully. -Fasano...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
The Dolphins have officially announced their roster moves today to get down to the 53 player limit. Here's how the 53-man roster breaks down - for now, at least: Quarterbacks (3) : Chad Pennington, Chad Henne, Pat White Running Backs (5) : Ronnie Brown, Ricky Williams, Patrick Cobbs, Lex Hilliard, Lousaka Polite (FB) Wide Receivers (5) : Ted Ginn Jr., Greg Camarillo, Davone Bess, Brian Hartline, Patrick...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
After a long, grueling training camp and preseason, some players will no longer be Miami Dolphins as of 4 pm eastern on Saturday. The Dolphins went into Thursday's preseason finale with 66 players on their roster. They must be down to 53 players by the 4 pm deadline. Below is my final roster prediction. I've included some explanations after my prediction. Check it out and then tell us your final predictions....
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
I have done extensive viewing on our first three preseason games and we look good on The D Line. I would like to explain what I mean by extensive viewing, I watch the game straight through once and then I go back and watch it again, but this time I rewind every play to look at each player, which means I watch every play about seven times, and yes, it takes a while. First I will rank the players, Probowl...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
We're now less than one week away from the final round of cuts that will finalize, for the time being, the Dolphins' 53-man roster. That means a number of those "roster bubble players" have less than a week and just one preseason game to prove they belong on the roster come next week. Therefore, it's time to update the "bubble watch" for the final time this preseason. While in past...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
So we're now halfway through the preseason. And we've already seen the ax drop down for several players. With the recent roster moves by the Dolphins, it seems like a good time to update our "depth chart bubble watch." The idea behind this is simple - to put together a projected 53-man roster and to highlight which players I feel are on pace to just barely make the team and which just miss...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
With one preseason game in the books and another just days away, the depth chart is starting to come a little bit more into focus. So I figured it's time to update the "depth chart bubble watch" to reflect what we saw on the field on Monday night. Again, just incase you haven't seen this before, the idea behind it is simple - to put together a projected 53-man roster and to highlight which...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
We're now well into training camp and just days away from the first preseason game of the year. And this means it's time to once again update the "depth chart bubble watch" with the latest developments from camp. Again, just incase you haven't seen this before, the idea behind it is simple - to put together a projected 53-man roster and to highlight which players I feel are on pace to just...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
We are now almost a week into training camp and even though it's still far too early to read into any developments just yet, it's always fun to speculate. So I figured it's time to bust out the second edition of the "depth chart bubble watch." The idea behind it is simple - to put together a projected 53-man roster and to highlight which players I feel are on pace to just barely make the...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
One of the more popular features here during training camp last year was my "March Madness" kind of spin on laying out the potential depth chart each week. I say it was "March Madness-esque" because of how I format it - including a list of who I think are the final five players on the roster and the final five off of the roster. The idea behind it wasn't so much to nail down the...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Phillip Merling will be asked to step up and fill the void left by the release of Vonnie Holliday. View full size photo uploaded July 23, 2009 So far we've looked at the receiver position and the tight end position in our 2009 training camp primers. Today we'll flip to the defensive side of the ball for the first time and focus our attention on the defensive line. Despite the large number of defensive...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
With Vonnie Holliday gone, there's pressure on the Dolphins' young defensive ends, including three 2008 draft picks. Some buzz: Phillip Merling, drafted 32nd overall, showed glimpses as a rookie (including his 25-yard interception return for a touchdown against the Jets) and said he has been running with the first team all offseason. But ''there is some good competition with Randy Starks and Tony McDaniel,''...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
With the announcement of the compensatory picks yesterday, we now know the official 2009 NFL Draft order in its entirety. We also know which of Miami's three 7th round picks the Dolphins sent to Jacksonville in exchange for DT Tony McDaniel - who, by the way, will work as a defensie end in Miami's 3-4 defense to start with. It was pick 232 - or Miami's second 7th round pick. So here are all of the...
Champions (Free subscription) | 03/20/2009
Last Updated: March 20 - 08:27 PM The Miami Dolphins on Friday acquired defensive tackle Tony McDaniel from the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for an undisclosed 2009 draft choice. McDaniel, ...
The Phinsider (Free subscription) | 03/20/2009
Tony is an impressive physical specimen - very quick, agile and strong. He's definitely big enough to play nose in a 3-4...With hard coaching though, he might turn out to be that gem Del Rio envisioned. -Jaguars beat writer Michael Wright, on new Dolphins DT Tony McDaniel. I'd encourage reading that entire article to learn more about this kid.
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