The Dolphins might be a dumpster fire, but they’re Josh Rosen‘s dumpster fire. Head coach Brian Flores announced recently that barring injury, Rosen will start the team’s final 12 games no matter what. Rosen realizes he has a limited window to make his mark, and acknowledged as such in some interesting comments the other day. “The way I am sort of approaching this year is I feel like I am really just trying out for the team,” Rosen said Wednesday, via Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald. “I feel like I am auditioning and I am trying to put my best foot forward and prove to everyone upstairs and coach Flo and Mr. Grier that I am the man moving forward.”
However, Salguero writes that Rosen is mistaken. The UCLA product is “very much in the team’s plans for 2020” whether he plays well or not because of his guaranteed cheap salary for the next couple of years, Salguero writes. But “even if he improves exponentially,” the Dolphins are still going to take a quarterback in the first round next April, he reports. Salguero writes that he has been “told this over and over and over by Dolphins sources,” and that they aren’t wavering from their plan to draft a signal-caller early no matter how well Rosen plays down the stretch.
That being said, that doesn’t mean Rosen won’t have the chance to still be Miami’s quarterback of the future. Salguero thinks that Rosen will enter training camp next year in a battle with whoever the Dolphins draft, and that he’ll have a legit and fair chance to win the starting job. Whoever wins the starting job should be in much better shape than Ryan Fitzpatrick and Rosen were this year, as the team openly tanked and shipped out veteran players left and right.
Salguero writes that the Dolphins are “definitely not” tanking in 2020, and that they “expect to use a sizable portion” of the massive amount of salary cap space they’ve saved up “to field a much more veteran and competitive team.” The Dolphins, of course, sit at 0-4 and while Rosen has shown flashes at times, he hasn’t been consistent enough to warrant too much praise. Obviously he isn’t surrounded by much talent, and he’s already had a ton of passes dropped. The tenth overall pick of the 2018 draft by the Cardinals, Rosen has had a very unusual career-path thus far. It’ll be very interesting to see how the rest of his Dolphins tenure plays out.
Has there been a top l10 QB drafted who has lost their shine quicker? I remember it was like after year 2 for Russell. It’s crazy how fast it’s happened even with him lacking serious supporting casts.
I’m not much of a Dolphins or Cardinals fan, but you still gotta feel for Rosen some. He gets to fulfill what was likely a lifelong dream only to wind up on a team with a porous O-line… then get shipped off to a WORSE team, if that’s possible (not to mention a team that hasn’t made a lot of secret about their tanking). I hope he DOES get an honest chance to compete for a more legit job next season.
He’s actually been doing a decent job given his supporting cast.
He’s a smartass…no broad based support coming for him. All the way back to UCLA…little rich kid who let everyone know that he didn’t need football. Aloof.
Funny; they said the same thing about Aaron Rodgers.
The Patriots will trade for him at some point in the next year or two and he will win a SB.
So now the Dolphins are telling the media of their team’s draft plans some 6 months away? Believable.
Well, it’s not like it’s groundbreaking news. Everyone knows their plan anyway.
You’re right, but then they wasted a 2nd round pick last year on Rosen.
Vikes should trade for him. Let him sit behind Cousins until they let him leave in free agency.
Tim Couch suffered the same fate in expansion year 1 Cleveland. He got his brains best in week after week because of no line. He took them to the playoffs once and then got hurt. And then everyone called him the biggest bust of all time and people just kept repeating it as if it were true. Now that is unfair.
Ryan leaf says hi, the year prior to couch. And jamarcus russell wants a seat at the table too. I doubt couch was ever really in the conversation for biggest bust ever