Sure we have as much a shot at drafting a receiver with our first pick as I have at Bar Refaeli walking into my office right now, sans clothes, and using my face as a make-shift Mad Tea Party. But if we did draft a receiver with our first pick, it would be my man Hakeem Nicks. Because he's my guy. And, apparently, he's Bill Parcells' guy too:IF the Dolphins decision makers go that route there is one player in this draft whose skill sets fit this team's needs. His name is Hakeem Nicks, and he played for former Hurricanes coach Butch Davis at the University of North Carolina...I've been told by a couple of scouts he's the one receiver in this draft that has Bill Parcells written all over him....
Clearly this is not going to go the way I want. It never does with the Dolphins. But I will keep hope alive and dream. Just like Christmas of '85 when I asked Santa for a GI Joe, but got an Army Pete instead. We need a play-making receiver. And, as with any great franchise quarterback, The Robot will need his go-to-guy of the future. Hakeem can be that guy. Because that guy isn't on this roster right now.
....most importantly, he has the one ingredient that this Dolphins receiver corp is missing: the shake and bake quickness, run after the catch ability needed to turn a short dig pass into a 20 or 30 yards gain. He did plenty of that during his career as a Tar Heel....
So while Ted Ginn has to throw a birthday party at a bar just so that Bills safety Donte Whitner can then get involved in a 3 AM brouhaha so that the cops can come and taser him, Hakeem will out run the Bills secondary -- and all other secondaries -- the old fashioned way: by being a badass playmaker who runs routes like an NFL receiver and not like an apiologist. Oh snap!
