BREAKING NEWS: Phins cut Jordan Phillips!

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The Miami Dolphins are cutting Jordan Phillips, per source.
1:04 PM - 2 Oct 2018

The Miami Dolphins have released defensive tackle Jordan Phillips, whose questionable work ethic often irritated Miami's coaches.

Phillips, a 2015 second-round pick, contributed five tackles and one sack in the four games he played this season.

The former Oklahoma standout started 26 games and contributed 66 tackles, 5.5 sacks and one interception during the 48 games he played in his four-year tenure with the Dolphins.

“No longer a Miami Dolphin. Good luck to my brothers on the team. I’ll miss ya’ll, but I couldn’t be happier to be out of there,” Phillip wrote on his Instagram account. “Free at last. Free at last….I’m in my bag. Don’t take it personal. Sometimes you got to put your future in your own hands and live with it.”

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According to a team source, Phillips’ release is meant to send a message to the locker room following Sunday’s 38-7 loss to the New England Patriots, a game where Miami’s defensive line got owned by the Patriots, which rushed for 174 yards and two touchdowns on 40 carries.

Miami’s defensive tackle play was so troublesome the Patriots interior linemen were consistently reaching the linebackers to produce second level blocks. After the game numerous Dolphins players blamed the unit’s lack of discipline for the defense’s poor showing.

Phillips’ release leaves the Dolphins extremely thin at defensive tackle because Akeem Spence, Davon Godchaux and Vincent Taylor are the only players left to play the interior spots. However, the Dolphins are expected to sign a veteran to replace Phillips before Wednesday’s practice.

white1 wrote:I hear you.  This kind of move was welcome in the first season.  Now that it's been the same move made three seasons in a row (last year was the Ajayi trade) it's getting tiresome.  Whatever the "message" is, it might be getting lost in translation.

Still, they got it right with Phillips IMO. Never blossomed, poor motor, poor work ethic, and he's being outplayed by not one but two lower-round draft picks each in their 2nd year (Taylor and Godchaux are both better IMO).

I'd expect the Fins to elevate Malveaux from the practice squad.  

It's a fair question to ask.  Is Parker next?

Degarmo wrote:It's not a message at all.  Gase is Philbin, Philbin is Gase, when it comes to personality.  They can't have anyone getting emotional and yelling or they get all queasy.

Every guy that's opened his mouth has been sent packing.

Gase is not a leader of men, he's a fraud.  If he really wanted to send a message, he would have got in his face on the sidelines in front of the team like a god-damned man.  

Bunch of sissy she-men pussies nowadays.  

white1 wrote:A win over Cincy would go a long way towards getting us back on track. Tough team.

With our deficiencies it will take a unique effort from this squad.

but those D-linemen should destroy our ragtag OL

DolFan 316 wrote:The Bills signed him.

https://www.profootballrumors.com/2018/10/bills-claim-dt-jordan-phillips-off-waivers-from-dolphins

I can guarantee that Phillips will now personally eat the Fins for lunch this season. Twice. He'll be invisible against every other team of course.

finfanatic wrote:Remember how Irving Fryar( I think it was??) put it on the Phins after JJ dumped him?

JMP wrote:That's a good landing spot for Phillips.  The Bills have a defensive-minded head coach that runs a sound, proven defensive system.  If he's going to be successful anywhere, Buffalo is his best bet.