How do you feel about the Ted Ginn, Jr. trade?

[Dave Gray]

What do you think?

I put disappointed.

I like Sparano/Parcells' idea of just getting rid of people that don't perform, but I don't really see the value that we got in the deal.  Even as a pure return guy, I think that Ginn had more value to us than we're getting from the deal.

I see 5th round picks as lottery selections -- most of the time they're guys who won't make a difference anyway.

I was hoping that his role would change with Marshall and he'd be able to adjust.  Guess not.

[dolphins4life]

^^^

I put disappointed, as well.

They traded him for virtually nothing.

[kidDyn0mite]

YES!!!!!

*pumps fist*

[TonyB0D]

glad we got something rather than nothing for him.  i guess they didn't care if things opened up fro him opposite marshall, because he clearly wouldn't be able to catch the ball anyways.  he still woulda been a dangerous return man.  oh well!!

[jtex316]

Ted Ginn Jr. IS nothing, so getting a 5th round pick is a 100% gain / return on the deal / investment.

Good job Dolphins in dropping that bumb.

[Adam First]

He's terrible. Good riddance.

[Philly Fin Fan]

My feelings don't really fit any of those listed. Mine is more like "indifferent". I'm glad they were able to get something for him, as opposed to cutting him for nothing.

I remember Saban trying to trade Lamar Gordon to the Eagles for a mid round pick several years back. The Eagles offered a pick from the next round. He turned it down. Saban ended up cutting him and the Eagles got Gordon for nothing.

[Philly Fin Fan]

BTW- if you look at it, just about all of our other receivers (except for that waste of a roster spot named Patrick Turner) were better than Ginn last year. So any of them will be dangerous across from Marshall. I'm actually thinking Bess and Hartline will benefit big time from Marshall.

Ginn's psyche was shattered by the boo's he got on draft day. Its kind of like McNabb in Philly. He was booed on draft day, and despite the good things he did, Eagles fans were always ready to run him out of town. No matter what Ginn did in Miami, he would always be associated with that idiotic "turn those thumbs down into thumbs up" remark, and "we drafted the Ginn family". He's probably happy he got traded. He will have a lot less pressure on him in San Fran, and may be able to take advantage of that.

[dolfan13]

BTW- if you look at it, just about all of our other receivers (except for that waste of a roster spot named Patrick Turner) were better than Ginn last year. So any of them will be dangerous across from Marshall. I'm actually thinking Bess and Hartline will benefit big time from Marshall.
 

100% agree with that... those guys actually can catch the ball, which is a skill you kinda need if you want to be a receiver.

bottom line is that ginn doesn't have good hands. all the other stuff people point to, drafted too high, booed by the fans, too high expectations, bad qb's, not being used correctly, blah blah blah blah, misses the point completely

the guy can't regularly catch the football, plain and simple. if you want to pay an exclusive return man that will never, ever be a receiver 1 million this year, 1.4 mil next, and 1.8 mil the year after that's fine  but is a bit excessive.

[Brian Fein]

Ginn was doomed from day 1 because he's not Brady Quinn.  I'm glad we didn't draft Brady Quinn that day.  He sucks.

I am disappointed as well.  I always thought he worked hard, he tried, and fans were hypercritical of him because he's not Brady Quinn.  You don't think he can read what people say?  Fans are too fickle, never liked him, and thus he never got his head right.  Funny how he never had a problem catching the ball in practice.

Ginn is still a threat in the open field, and can outrun 90% of the corners and safeties in the league.  If he could bulk up, man up, and grow a sack, he WILL be dangerous.

[bsfins]

I agree with Philly Indifferent....maybe leaning slightly to happy...

[BigDaddyFin]

Unsure.  I'd have given him one more year. 

[Defense54]

Happy. I'm glad the sideline sniffer is gone , but I would have been happier with a 3rd or a 4th , a 5th is kinda light.   Zack was found in the 5th , but its tough to get real value that deep. It happens, but its tough. So I'm happy , not estatic.

[tits muldoon]

run sleepy run!!!  california good bud here i come. (tis career be a short one nah)

[Defense54]

run sleepy run!!!  california good bud here i come. (tis career be a short one nah)

Doesn't have to be a long career. He's already made his 20 million. the Ginn family is living good.