Yeah he's so top flight that the Dolphins moved DE Randy Starks to DT not much over a yr ago!
Again you miss the fact that they had other needs to address and realized there wasn't any other choices that made sense at DT if they didn't secure one in the draft! If it's not broke don't fix it... you seem to forget talk of Odrick starting at DT.
There was starting Oddrick at DT NEXT to Solai, that talk. Since you need 2 DT's in a 4-3 defense. But never any of Oddrick replacing Soliai by the organization. Maybe by fans but not the people that matter.
You miss the fact that the Fins tried to sign Soliai long-term 2 years ago during his great 2010 season. They couldn't. They franchised tagged him they didn't want to lose him and made him one of the 10 highest paid players in the entire league last year for 1 year. They tried signing him all last year during the season to a long-term deal. They couldn't. Then, when free agency started this year he signs with Miami less than 24 hours after free agency began. Soliai was on the open market for all of a few hours if that.
How anyone can say that they were entertaining letting him go is beyond me when every action they have taken for 24+ months was to lock this guy up. And when he was on the market they were so scared that less than 1 day into free agency they gave a pretty big deal (hometown discount or not). So when you say they were thinking about letting him go and replacing him, its just 100% false and it never happened. And there are NO actions in the past 2 years to back up that point.
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