Watching him struggle just indicates that he is not the dominant player they thought he would be 5 years ago. It’s a tough decision to either over pay him or let him go but the Fins should have enough room to over pay him at least for a year or two. Martin maybe his successor but he is no where near ready to play on an island like Long does every week.

insert Jordan Gross here…..

That being said, I cant make it through an entire Dolphin game without flipping the channels so I cant evaluate how bad Jake Long has become. Is he giving up a lot of blind side hits and sacks? If he can still pass protect, I’d keep the man.

I’ll get a lot of thumbs downs from the Long groupies…. but at the end of the day, he is leading a unit that was 30th last year and 22nd and circling the drain this year…. they’ll end up below 25th

when you got a leader that’s doing that, you cut him and move on…. especially on offensive line, because the entire offensive performance begins and ends there…

Hartline and Sean Smith don’t need new contracts while Randy Starks does. For the most part Long can still play at a high level, but the Fins need to definitely do a conditional 2nd that elevates to a 1st.

“It was the safer pick and, through the first few years of Long’s career, an argument could be made that it was a six-of-one-half-dozen-of-another proposition.”

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That saying basically means its the same either way because Long was great so even if Matt Ryan is good they still got a great player. Like if we were driving and I said should we take the city streets or the expressway, you might say we’ll get there in twenty minutes either way, so it’s six of one half dozen of the other. Meaning- same thing.

It’s ironic because this is total revisionist history when the history doesn’t even make their point. Matt Ryan’s won ZERO playoff games. Has 2 all-world WR, and the best TE in the history of the game, and hasn’t done squat in 5 yrs.
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Well Matt has made the Falcons into a winning franchise every year and the Falcons are one of the best teams in the league with elite players.

Which leads one to conclude a much more important team question other than Jake Long’s status and decline. Who has been recruiting for the Dolphins? They have acquired so few talented players that the offense can be shut down after watching some game film. Moreover the Dolphins only made the playoffs once since drafting Jake Long with their #1 overall pick.