Miami Dolphins re-sign CB Will Allen, but is he healthy?

Sep. 14 News and Notes 5 comments ---Bill

Last night, we learned that the Miami Dolphins released Benny Sapp, but the move was surprising because we didn’t know who was going to fill the void created by his departure.  Well, it seems that the Dolphins had someone in mind…someone that has played the last 5 seasons with the Dolphins…..Will Allen.   Allen was cut prior to week 1 of the 2011 season, but his return to the Dolphins is a welcomed one.  After watching Tom Brady carve up the Dolphins secondary like a Thanksgiving turkey, something needed to change.

In the preseason, Benny Sapp looked like a Pro Bowler…intercepting passes and blanketing receivers.  After watching on Monday Night, it all was a bit of a mirage.  The Dolphins defense looked out of sorts and there were Patriots receivers running more open than the gap between Michael Strahan’s teeth.  But I digress.  The worst part about this whole debacle (and it is a debacle) is that the Dolphins are responsible for all $1.9 million of Benny Sapp’s 2011 contract.  They are paying the guy all of that money for 1 game and replacing him with a guy they could have kept in the first place!  I’ve learned that common sense and the Miami Dolphins, should not be used in the same sentence too often.

Onto Will Allen…is he an upgrade?  Yes, if he’s healthy.  Remember, Allen was held out of a couple of the Dolphins’ preseason games and more than a few practices, because he was injured.  His health was the reason I thought the Dolphins cut him in the first place and chose Sapp.  If he’s healthy (which I can only assume he is, since the Dolphins just re-signed him), he can bring some stability and leadership to the Dolphins secondary….specifically to Vontae Davis and Sean Smith.  The Dolphins had better get their secondary fixed in a hurry because the Texans saw what the Patriots did on Monday night….and I’m sure they’re going to try to replicate it.

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  • ohiodolfan

    Not a fan of Allen, think miami should of kept Sapp. The whole secondary was fail, between cramps and dehydratons issues, to not being able to control the hurry up O of the pats…which im guessing miami knew they would run….coaching issue in my book not a player issue. Watch the pats pickup Sapp and school us in Dec when we play again

  • rich9336

    In the preseason Sapp played against the 2nd and 3rd teams. He was not that good last year.

  • Fiumano

    It just seems that our OF needed improving and now its our DF. Hope the guys can get it together for this Saturday game. We would love to see a real win and not just in the preseason.

  • WCMST4

    Benny Sapp is horrible. Another foolish trade to dish Greg C for him. However, not as much is being said about how stupid we were to let Ronnie Brown and Lou Polite go. We have zero power running game now. All Lou Polite did was to convert like 20 4th and Short’s in a row. Why let him go? Did I miss something? Did he seduce Jeff Ireland’s wife or something? Ronnie did not want to go. He would have stayed for less. Now you see on 4th and Goal we have to try a corner shot to Brian Hartline? Retarded to say it as politely as I can. I am so sick of this regime. We do one thing right then f up two other things.

  • kingkupa

    fire da whole front office…