Mallett vows "payback" on Miami for not drafting him...

[phinphan]

He better hope he doesnt end up looking across the field at our D.
They will be picking him up off the ground after every play.

[BigDaddyFin]

It's hard to get payback on a team when you're second coming of Ryan Leaf.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

And who the hell is Dan Gilbert??  My sentiments exactly.

He is the owner of the Cavs and a billionaire successful businessman.  Don't confuse your ignorance, with his relevance. 

BTW Gilbert didn't put a curse on Miami.   He placed it on Lebron.  Plenty of players switch teams.  Lebron did it in such a way to maximize the dickishness of it. 

And 30 teams passed on Mallett.  Only one team told him, they were going trade up for him. That too is a dickish move.  While not the first time a team has done that to a player, but each time a team does that it is a dickish move. 

The Dolphins are starting to get a reputation for being needlessly dickish...Jason Taylor, Dez Brayant, the going after Harbaugh and retaining Sapano, Pennington calling out the Dolphins for benching Henne, now Mallett.   

Running a team is not a popularity contest so sometimes you need to do dickish moves and be heartless.  Trading or cutting players, taking a hard line on holdouts etc.  But the Dolphins are developing a pattern of doing dickish moves for no reason.  Telling Mallett they were going to draft him when they weren't did nothing to help the Dolphins.   

[MikeO]

The Dolphins are starting to get a reputation for being needlessly dickish...Jason Taylor, Dez Brayant, the going after Harbaugh and retaining Sapano, Pennington calling out the Dolphins for benching Henne, now Mallett.   

Running a team is not a popularity contest so sometimes you need to do dickish moves and be heartless.  Trading or cutting players, taking a hard line on holdouts etc.  But the Dolphins are developing a pattern of doing dickish moves for no reason.  Telling Mallett they were going to draft him when they weren't did nothing to help the Dolphins.   

The "history of dickish" moves started when Wayne hired Dan to be VP and Dan thought he was going to have some say and control over personel moves but found out he was later a puppet and a figure head to shake hands and kiss baby's with no power.... so he quit a couple days later. Pretty much lying to the most popular player in the franchises history and making him look stupid....DICKISH MOVE! That's where it started!

The Dolphins franchise has sold their soul to the devil not ONCE but now TWICE! And this what you get. First it was Saban, and his rules of not wanting office secretaries to look him in the eye when he was walking down the halls and his micro-managing of everything in general. Being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. You would have thought they learned their lesson, but not even a year or so later they fell for the same act by the guy who invented it in Bill Parcells. Parcells is so fickle he looks at the saying "here today, gone tomorrow" and said F' that...."HERE TODAY, GONE TODAY".  Parcells screwed up 3 drafts, hired all of his buddies and put them in spots they were unqualified for or just too damn old for (i.e. Henning)......then felt the need to clear out his office and leave the franchise in the middle of the season just because when it comes to Parcells, its always about him!! Can't be about the team, its gotta be about "THE TUNA".  The most overrated coach in NFL history and a total flop as a GM now failing with the Jets, Dallas, and Miami!

Say what you want about Belichick, but he is loyal to his owner and loyal to his coaches. He may be a dick to the media, and a dick to other coaches. But he treats "his people" good, until they give him a reason not too.  Miami hires BAD PEOPLE....JJ, Saban, Parcells. You hire BAD people you get BAD results. You hire GOOD people you get GOOD results!

The teams that win have good people as owners and people as the face of their franchises on the office levels. Pittsburgh and the Rooneys. Giants and the Maras. The beloved Packers and McCarthy. Indy and Dungy back in the day.

And then you got the Wayne Huizengas of the world who push out Shula, beg Saban to come and fall for the Parcells act. And the current piece of shit owner like Ross who sabotages his own current head coach in Sparano and makes the whole organization look foolish. And we have a GM asking players if there mom was a hooker. And the dickish moves continue and continue and the Fins get worse and worse.

I know I know, MIKEO being negative again. But HOODIE made a great point. And Hoodie and myself don't see eye to eye on much if anything. But the seeds for the Dolphins failure were planted many years ago. The Fins have laid down with dogs, and to no surprise they got fleas!

[EKnight]

He better hope he doesnt end up looking across the field at our D.
They will be picking him up off the ground after every play.

Scout's Inc agrees, and so do I:

"Soon to be stars: Koa Misi

Scouts Inc.’s Matt Williamson looks at AFC East players on the verge of a breakout in 2011.

Koa Misi certainly benefits from having stud pass-rusher Cameron Wake on the opposite side of him in Miami’s 3-4 scheme, but this is an impressive young player in his own right who is poised for a breakout year in 2011. In fact, I think the Miami defense as a whole is on the verge of establishing itself as one of the truly elite units in the NFL.


A great defensive line that should be much healthier this year will have a lot to do with this, but so will the development of this 24-year old linebacker. Misi has a sturdy frame and plays to the whistle snap after snap. His pass-rushing arsenal should improve with experience, but he is already very sturdy securing the edge as a run defender. In this respect, Misi was one of the better run defenders at his position last year.

Along with Misi, this Miami defense has plenty of young players who could qualify as on the verge of stardom. To go along with what I expect to be an outstanding and improving defensive line, Vontae Davis and Sean Smith could be on the cusp of becoming perhaps the premier tandem of corners in the league. In fact, both Davis and Smith are superior players to Misi at this point. But having all this talent surrounding the second-year outside linebacker should put him in a position to flourish."

[Sunstroke]

...Vontae Davis and Sean Smith could be on the cusp of becoming perhaps the premier tandem of corners in the league.

I was OK with most of what the guy was saying...until he used Sean Smith and "premier" in the same sentence. Despite using four qualifiers leading up to the statement (could be, the cusp, becoming, perhaps), I just don't see Sean Smith being a big part of any "premier" anything...

[Spider-Dan]

Sunstroke, in all fairness, right now the only thing that prevents Sean Smith from being called "premier" is a case of the dropsies.

He successfully read the QB and put himself in position to make a play many times, so clearly he's in the right place mentally.  He needs to be able to haul in all the gimme INTs that are bouncing off of his chest.

[Sunstroke]

Sunstroke, in all fairness, right now the only thing that prevents Sean Smith from being called "premier" is a case of the dropsies.

Spidey, in all fairness, right now the only thing that prevents me from being called "Brad Pitt" is a case of the uglies...

[Tenshot13]

Spidey, in all fairness, right now the only thing that prevents me from being called "Brad Pitt" is a case of the uglies...

I agree with spider, but this made me laugh.

[MikeO]

Sean Smith is a marginal NFL player at best. Good enough to find a roster spot on a team, not good enough to start on any decent team.

[Sunstroke]

^^^ and certainly not good enough to be considered part of "the premier tandem of corners in the league."

As soon as I read that line, I filed the entire article under "fluff"...even coming, as it did, from Scouts, Inc. (who I actually have a lot of respect for in general))

[tubba marxxx]

"Payback" = Holding the clipboard better than any of Marino's "successors"

[Landshark]

He is the owner of the Cavs and a billionaire successful businessman.  Don't confuse your ignorance, with his relevance. 

Apparently you didn't recognize the sarcasm in my post.  I know exactly who he is.  My entire point is this:  He said stuff about how the organization will win a championship before Lebron does and how he's placing a curse on Lebron, then the Cavs sucked this year and now he's nothing but an afterthought.

The same thing will happen to Mallett after 3-4 years of riding the pine.