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1. New defensive coordinator Mike Nolan is trying to create an “offensive defense,” or a unit that plays up-tempo and dictates the pace of the game to the offense, instead of the other way around.

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2. The starters on the interior line won’t be decided for awhile ...

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8. It’s no coincidence that the Dolphins are holding their mini-camp on Memorial Day Weekend. This was the same weekend a year ago in which defensive tackle Randy Starks was arrested on South Beach for aggravated battery on a police officer.

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11. Bill Parcells spent the afternoon practice talking with former Redskins quarterback Joe Thiesmann. (This was one of my favorites. Since we do not here much from Parcells I am glad that he is making sure he still has the use of his voice. lol ok I know that is not what is meant but without punctuation ...)

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15. Second-round pick Koa Misi and Charlie Anderson worked with the First Team at outside linebacker ...

16. The offensive package named after a mammal, which involves direct snaps to players other than the quarterback, isn’t going anywhere. And that’s all I’ll say about that.


17. Play of the Day: Actually, two of them, both by second-year receiver Taurus Johnson from USF. First, Johnson made a tremendous cut on Oglesby and easily caught a 20-yard post route, which he turned into a 70-yard touchdown. On the second, Johnson broke Lousaka Polite’s ankles on a punt return, drawing a loud chorus of “ooohh’s” from his teammates.


18. Derp of the Day: On 4th-and-3 in the 2-minue drill, Pat White threw a complete duck – like, end-over-end, this-pass-can’t-wobble-any-worse kind of duck – that went through John Nalbone’s hands and right to Jonathan Amaya for the interception.

19. Rookie fourth-rounder A.J. Edds worked alongside Karlos Dansby with the First Team at inside linebacker in the afternoon. ...

I know I'm going to get flamed for saying this because traditionally I believe in giving a drafted player a minimum of three years to develop, but I believe they would be better of cutting White now and refocusing their attention on players with a future on this team. Thats all I'm going to say on that.

Thigpen ran a wildcat package in college. He can also throw a lot better than White. To me, the wildcat QB is Thigpen. No question about it. White is dead weight. He was a reach in the 2nd. I think the Broncos are the next in line to see what we have to go through.

There's a difference between the WildPat and the spread. Thigpen is a spread-option QB.

He's not a pure runner who can also throw. He's a QB who can also run.

The thing about that though, is that we don't run a spread offense. We're a power running, 2 TE set, type of an offense and that is something that Thigpen has to get used to running.

I'm not upset that Pat White hasn't turned into the Wildcat weapon we all were expecting when we drafted him, what upsets me about Pat White is the fact that he looks like a deer in the headlights when he's on the field. He's a liability instead of a weapon. If he actually looked confident out there, and was making consistent improvements, then I would have no problem with the guy. Problems is he doesn't seem to be progressing, or if he is it's at a very slow rate. If Pat White can't show real signs of progress, and prove that he can contribute for us on Sundays, then it's time for him to go. Unless we trade Thigpen or Pennington I don't see a roster spot for White. Hopefully someone will snatch him up off the practice squad and take the burden of his second round salary off our hands.

The route of cutting their losses by releasing him because of poor play would have occurred long ago.