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Fins making moves at WR...Naanee out and Gaffney in. (https://twitter.com/finsjesse/status/253219239379476480)

Ben Volin just tweeted also,plus other moves...
Dolphins announce they have signed WR Jabar Gaffney and released Legedu Naanee (https://twitter.com/BenVolinPBP/status/253220792219869184)

Dolphins also release DT Andre Fluellen and waive/injure LB Mike Rivera. DT Tony McDaniel might finally be healthy (https://twitter.com/BenVolinPBP/status/253221107828674560)

Yah!...Wooohoo doing the dance of Superior

The chorus of Handel's "Messiah" is playing in my head....... HAAAAAALLELUJAH!!!!!!

THANK YOU JESUS!!!!!

It had to be done, but of all the guys out there, they settle on Gaffney?

Surprised.

His best year was his latest/11th year in the league?

Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey hey -- Goodbye.

Then we sign Gaffney.

I think it was Utah, when you got sentenced to death, you had a choice between hanging and a firing squad.

I'm just glad they got rid of Naanee.  He should've never made this team.

I was stoked to see they parted ways with Naanee.....I was not so thrilled with Gaffney being the replacement!!!!! Oh well at least Naanee is gone!!!!!!

Are you serious??? 11 yrs. in the league? Dang, I am getting old. Remember watching Gaf at UF. WOW! Still, a good move.

WoooHooo!

Gaffney is a professional WR. Might not have game breaking skills but you probably won't get the bone head mistake or him running the wrong route

I think I am missing something. I realize he isn't a world beater but Gaffney had 68 receptions last year for 947 yards and 5 TDs. Why hadn't anyone signed him including us? 

By compassion Hartline had 35 rec for 549 yards 1TD and Bess had 51 rec for 537 yards and 3 tds.

Gaffney had Tom Brady throwing to him.  Not a totally fair comparison.

He played for Washington last year. He had Rex Grossman and John Beck.

He's 31? That's all I got.

Wait, I take that back the reason that Miami didn't sign him was that the Patriots signed him first. The reason they didn't sign him when NE cut him was because NE cut him because he was hurt. He's healthy now. That's all I got. No really, it is.  >:D

Those numbers were from Washington?
OK, add me to the surprised camp.

I seem to remember Gaf having a hip injury. Not sure how long ago that was, though. It could have been a couple of years ago.

This is a definite upgrade to the WR group. Gaffney will also bring leadership and has the most experience of all of them. I am excited!!!

Signed him just in time. Just heard Holmes is out for year. The jets will be looking for a WR.

He's gotta be an upgrade over Legadu NanaeeNotGoingToCatchAnything .

Now if we can find someone to replace Daniel Thomas and some guys in the secondary who can turn their head and look for the ball we're all set.

I'm a little late to the party on this thread and I'm not saying anything that hasn't already been said.  But I'm delighted that they cut Naanee.  And I know that you aren't going to find an All Pro wideout sitting at home unemployed at this time of year.  But jeez, are there so few viable WR options that Gaffney was the best they could do?   

On a related note, sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere, but did anyone see how good Marshall looked on Monday night?  Not saying that I was against the Fins getting rid of him by any means.  He is one of those guys who is probably okay to deal with when things are going good and the team is winning and everything is sunshine and lollipops.  But when everything isn't going great, he becomes a liability both on and off the field.  Kind of a T. Owens type of guy.

For whatever reason Marshall is much more comfortable with Jay Cutler or someone who he "respects" throwing to him than he EVER was with what Miami trotted out with him when he was in Miami. I felt that it would be the same for Ryan Tannehill and I thought Marshall and Tannehill would have made an absolute AWFUL partnership. Tannehill needed this receiving corps. He needed to be the one calling the shots. Bess, Hartline and company are not going to go back to the huddle and tell Tannehill, "I'm open, just throw me the damn ball". Marshall would have done that.

Now would that have killed Tannehill's progress? I don't know. Maybe Tannehill would have just ignored Marshall and did what he wanted anyway, but then if he did, would Marshall have flourished in Miami in that type of atmosphere? I don't think so. Marshall needs his ego stroked long and hard. Cutler is sure enough in himself and sure enough that his coaches are stupid to do what Marshall wants and just throw him the damn ball. Even in the game that you say Marshall played so well, there was a moment in the game (I think it was the same game) where his coach came over to talk to Cutler and Cutler got up and walked away. Cutler is a gunslinger. Marshall needs a gunslinger. It worked in Denver and it's working again in Chicago. Tannehill is not a gunslinger at least it doesn't appear at this point that he is, so having Marshall around would have just sent mixed signals to Tannehill and frustrated Marshall.

I said all along that Hartline would be better than people thought and would take up some of the slack from Marshall leaving. He's done one better than that if you ask me and taken up all the slack of Marshall leaving. I'm not surprised in the least about how Hartline has looked so far. I won't go so far as say I knew this would happen because I certainly didn't know it, but I suspected that it could and now that it has I believe that Miami made the right decision in sending Marshall to Chicago. It wasn't so much that Marshall wasn't a good player, he can be in the right situation, but Miami wasn't that situation, Chicago was. Both Chicago and Philbin/Ireland seemed to understand that. I think we got a fair price for Marshall and Chicago got a fair product. That's a win/win trade and Hartline's play so far this year has been a bonus byproduct.

Agreed on pretty much all of your points, Pappy. 

Yes, I mentioned that on another thread. The effort I saw from him on MNF was rarely seen in Miami. Maybe it was just being on in prime time or maybe he thought it was the Pro Bowl. lol