Last year the Miami Dolphins wanted former West Virginia quarterback Pat White so badly that they took him with the 44th overall pick in the draft. Now they don’t want him at all.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Dolphins cut White today.
White was a great fit for the spread offense at West Virginia, but he never quite fit in Miami. There was talk that the team wanted him to move to wide receiver, and he indicated that he’d rather play baseball than play wide receiver.
We don’t know what’s next for White, but it’s hard to believe a player talented enough to be a high second-round pick just a year ago wouldn’t be able to catch on somewhere. Our pure speculation is that the Patriots could have some interest.
Drafting him so high was a mistake. He is a good kid, but he has “issues”. I would rather have seen him returning punts rather than Bess but that would waste a roster spot.
Aww…What’s the matter Florio, couldn’t bare to write this news yourself?
do we have crisis intervention teams on standby for Florio?
Was Mikey Florio crying so much over this he had to have someone else post it? LMFAO poooor Florio
Florio is sucking his thumb and crying somewhere after having heard this…
Pat White was a bust the minute the fins drafted him. dont know how parcells would even agree to drafting such a small qb. another screw up by the fins. (pat white, patrick turner, gibril wilson) seems like the trifecta is better at drafting in late rounds and picking up undrafted players. (bess, hartline)
It was a bad pick it will be interesting to see where he ends up and he can contribute. MLB anyone?
Florio is ITCHIN’ for Pat White the QB to join his Steelers.
He wasn’t talented enough to be a 2nd rd pick. Yet the Fins took him anyway. What does that tell you?
i thought he was pronounced dead after the Steelers game last year?? Oh well…
Wait a minute. I thought Bill Parcells was a football genius who never made a mistake. So what was the larger Miami draft day blunder, White early in the second or Ted Ginn top 10?
Mike Florio just couldn’t type it out and post it.
Look for a story on how much he could do for various teams now that he is “available” and how “good” players get cut.
Poor Mikey!
Hey now White can focus on that baseball career he said he should have pursued.
Pat White should be on an NFL roster. Miami was bad luck because they can’t carry 4 QBs, and they have two #2-quality backups in Thigpen and Pennington. He might make an interesting add for a team like Seattle, who could use a little wildcat excitement.
The dolphins have made some great moves but picks like this cancel out and make the FO average. STOP grabbing Cowboy rejects and draft “projects” like white and turner. This year’s draft was very good and the Dansby/Marshall/Mike Nolan pick-ups were great…everything else was questionable. Why pick up that OL from Dallas before roster cuts were made…he was not making the team anyway.
My pure speculation is that he sucked so much nobody wants him. He was awful and doesn’t deserve to be on a roster.
Ginn was NOT a Parcells pick
I expect Florio to try and cover this up, with a flurry of non-story Favre nuggets.
Nice to have options.
Damn I wanted this to work…oh well. My bro and I got his autograph along with Vontae’s and Dansby on a revo-helmet but it looks like it just lost value. If he doesn’t switch positions, I can’t imagine him going to another team as a QB. Pat looked like an ant compared to the rest of the Dolphins team physically. Good Luck to him throughout whatever career he chooses.
Pat White’s performance at the Senior Bowl made some scouts think that he could actually make the difficult throws at the Pro level. I read somewhere that the Patriot fans cheered him at Foxboro during a pregame military celebration where he walked up to each serviceman and women who were lined up on the field and shook their hands. Best of luck, Pat.
Being a fan, it’s no big loss to me. He never really contributed. Where we may have made the mistake on White. We did pretty good with Bess, who was’nt even drafted.
As many years as Florio has been watching NFL football, why is he obsessed with Whites and Dixons? It’s one thing to be a pocket passer who’s mobile–like Roethlisberger, Favre, McNabb. But these lithe, scrambling QBs built like wideouts don’t win championships. The best was Randall Cunningham, and these guys aren’t in Cunningham’s universe.
If we’d brought in a traditional QB after (gag) O’Donnell and Kordell had embraced the Slash role, he’d have finished his career as a beloved figure in Steelers lore. But he HAD to be a QB. Hines didn’t complain about making the position switch from college. Russ Grimm made the Hall because he let coaches shape him into an o-lineman.
White needs to decide if it’s better to be an unemployed QB or a successful WR.
i bet bill in NE can make pat white into the next brady. bill was heavily thinking of drafting him. but not in the 2nd round. bill has common sense unlike parcells
Hey Rhapsody – if he can’t beat out Thigpen, he shouldn’t be on an NFL roster.
“but he never quite fit in” … whaaaat??
I challenge anyone to name a worse football player on ANY NFL Roster. His passes were consistently 20 yards off the mark … even hit Tuna’s golf cart on one.
Getting paid millions & not even trying another position to get a shot at the NFL … man’s a head case. Then got all pouty & quit … then came back when reality returning bonus came up.
I’d venture to say that head case will cost him $$$ in baseball & he’ll NEVER make it to the bigs.
We all wanted him to succeed, hang around & improve … but he kept making Ted Ginn look like a Pro Bowler & Ricky Williams a philosopher.
The proverbial Turd in the Punchbowl.
@ Big Tex:
Check your facts. Cam Cameron drafted Ted Ginn.
Now STFU.
It is believed that parcells was widely against drafting pat white. Ireland was the one who pushed for him. This year in the draft room parcells had a sign up that said some thing like… we are looking for prototypical players with prototypical size. Maybe parcells can be credited with pat turner but I doubt he Everett really wanted white… I feel bad because pat is a good kid and he really never got much burn
@skoolboylwc …
My brother was at the Orange Bowl cheering for the Tide when Tom Brady threw for 369 yards and 4 TDs to led Michigan past Bama in OT. When New England drafted him, my bro told me “There goes a future superstar.” Brady was #4 on the depth chart his rookie season. His second season, he was the Super Bowl MVP.
Belichick didn’t MAKE Tom Brady. He knew great talent when he saw it. You can’t MAKE a Tom Brady out of any old scrub. Are you kidding? Belichick’s a great coach, not a magician.
hey big tex-parcells didnt draft ginn.
If Florio thinks Leinart is headed to the UFL, then this bust is headed for the Arena League.
…or a Wal Mart in West Virginia.
I hate anyone who talks about football in this thread. This space should be reserved for making fun of florio.
someone help me understand all the hate on here for pat white.
everyone talks about “he should have switched to to WR” when he hadn’t played that position since his sophomore year in high school. going to the nfl trying something you hadn’t done for 6 years makes sense how? it’s a totally different skill set.
he’s been on the roster for one season and got a total of 38(-ish) snaps. that’s really enough time to call a guy a bust? at least he got a fair shake.
and the size of the guy. doug flutie won everywhere he went and he’s legally a dwarf. so pat isn’t 6’5″ and 235. matt leinart i, and he can’t do anything worthwhile on a football field.
so help me understand. pat hasn’t been arrested, is a decent guy by all accounts, and (if he ever got on the field enough) might develop into a decent talent. so why all the hatred for the kid?
Next update will be Pat White spotted behind counter at local McDonalds.
@Uncle Phil …
It’s business, not hatred. I don’t know Pat White. His arrest record and character would be relevant if I were hiring him, but have no bearing on my talent assessment. Scrambling QBs are exciting to watch, but in the 45-year history of the Super Bowl, have proved a bust at winning championships. I loved Doug Flutie. But he’s an anomaly who came to NFL success via a circuitous route. Parcells is a respected football mind, and it’s clear he doesn’t see White as another Flutie.
White may not have played wideout since HS, but Parcells wouldn’t be willing to give him the shot if he didn’t think he could do it. As far as I know, Kordell Stewart NEVER played WR, but he did it successfully during his first two seasons with the Steelers. And if White were willing to play ball–excuse the pun–he might get another shot at QB as Stewart did.
All over the league today, players are being cut. Most will never again play in the NFL. Their dream–and employment–is over. Now they have to figure out how to provide for their families in a near stagnate economy where the unemployment rate is hovering just under 10 percent.
White has a chance to continue playing in a high-paying sports league most men would kill to have as an employer. He’s throwing it away for stubborn pride. Foolish decision.
Uncle Phil … you’re the only one preaching hate.
Everyone else is using football analysis as this is a football site.
Shut your cuckoo clock off & read JerryD’s football analysis above … followed him through every pro moment … Take the Challenge I made!! … no one has met it yet!!
Any NFL scout with his head screwed on straight watching Pat White play at WV would have plainly seen the kid was not NFL ready and was a project that would need coaching up over 2-3 seasons.
And now they act shocked that in his second season he’s still not ready, and cut him.
They should learn from the Cowboys – they let a UDRFA with a weird throwing motion sit on their bench for 3 seasons while they developed him.
So many teams waste talent because they aren’t interested in developing it if it isn’t ‘NFL Ready’ when they get it.
Hey, Favre’sDirtyWranglers, the only thing you’ll find at McDonald’s is your fat face stuffing your gut. Pat White is an intelligent young man from a great family. He will excel at whatever he endeavors. And I’m quite sure he will be very successful. Much more than you, blow gut. So go back to your minimum wage job and take your uninformed, minimum wage, negative opinion with you. Douche.
@jerryd
you referenced yourself in 3rd person. that’s pretty sad, but i’ll play along for a bit.
my point is that he can’t be called a failure when he’s never gotten a real shot to do anything. if you (not you specifically, an organization) give up on a prospect after one year, then, well that’s their call. but your assertions that pat quit, or gave up, or pouted, well, unless you’re part of the dolphins organization, you know nothing more than the rest of us.
i know that the pat white i watched for 4 years at wvu was a very determined winner. he lead guys to victory. yes, he had some issues to work on with his throwing, but so do most of the guys drafted at qb. they don’t all come in like elway or manning.
to give up on a second rounder after one year is pretty bad. at least the texans hung on to david carr until they knew he was never going to get it. speaking of which, there’s a worse guy than white on an nfl roster (the 49ers). and as long as the bears keep sticking with jay cutler, there will always be at least one qb worse than pat in the league.
Uncle Phil,
You’re still trying to make things personal by making fun of me & labeling people haters.
I agree with your football points which are much better. You may have even met the challenge … I know there ARE candidates.
We loved Pat White & were fans of his in college too!! We hoped he would be our secret weapon. He was a coaches favorite at first.
But sadly, Pat played his way off the team … then got all head case … BUT came back for the money without being flexible. We think he’ll get another chance in the NFL, but after his actions he will be watched closely & paid for play only!!!
Too bad, so sad. But teams need the roster spots for people who produce & Miami has several QBs.
Finally!!!
Deb says: September 4, 2010 4:45 PM
@skoolboylwc …
My brother was at the Orange Bowl cheering for the Tide when Tom Brady threw for 369 yards and 4 TDs to led Michigan past Bama in OT. When New England drafted him, my bro told me “There goes a future superstar.” Brady was #4 on the depth chart his rookie season. His second season, he was the Super Bowl MVP.
Belichick didn’t MAKE Tom Brady. He knew great talent when he saw it. You can’t MAKE a Tom Brady out of any old scrub. Are you kidding? Belichick’s a great coach, not a magician.
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Wow your brother should be a scout!
Brady looked, physically not a thing like a QB who col make it, he was ultra skinny etc. but what your bro probably saw is that “he just know how to play the position” thing. Lloyd Carr switcherooing him from time to time and being in love with local boy Drew Henson likely didn’t help his stock either.
I love BB as the Pats coach but I can’t give him credit for Brady. The credit goes to a gentleman (RIP) named Dick Rehbein (SP) who was the Pats QB coach in ’00 and was DYING to draft Brady. BB let him decide between Brady and Tim Rattay (Imagine that??) and the rest is history. When Scott Pioli was still in NE he kept a picture on his desk of Brady and another guy they drafted who didn’t make the cut to remind himself how humbling the business can be and not to rest on your laurels when you get one right.
As for Pat White, the Pats don’t need him unless he can rush the passer. They are happy with their backup QB Hoyer (they kept only him behind TB even last year when he was an undrafted ROOKIE)and don’t need to generate offense with a wildcat type scheme.
@CKL …
My brother’s football knowledge blows my mind. I follow Alabama and a little SEC, but otherwise I’m all NFL. He follows college and pro equally.
Two stories I never forget. One is that Brady story. He said this kid just took command of the field that night and he sat there stunned and watched him pick Bama apart. That was what impressed him–Brady’s leadership and calm under pressure. When the Pats took him, he knew it was just a matter of time before he’d get a chance to shine.
The other was Roethlisberger. He was alone with his baby daughter walking her around the floor and praying they’d take Ben. When they did, he told the baby “I think we’ve finally got a quarterback,” then he called me and said our future was about to change. The next year we won the Super Bowl.
NO ONE claimed Pat White.
@Uncle Phil … turns out the ENTIRE WORLD ARE Pat White haters!! lol