Porter to sign with Dolphins

**TATEone** · 03-06-2007, 09:26 AM

WPXI-Channel 11 is reporting this morning that former Steelers linebacker Joey Porter will sign today with the Miami Dolphins.

Porter will sign a five-year deal for about $24 million, WPXI reports. He will get a signing bonus of about $12 million.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt.../s_496362.html

**Prophet** · 03-06-2007, 09:54 AM

Good for him.
I'm sure he'll stay out of trouble in Miami, there's nothing to do in that angelic city.

**Mr. Purple** · 03-06-2007, 11:01 AM

"Prophet" wrote:

Good for him.
I'm sure he'll stay out of trouble in Miami, there's nothing to do in that angelic city.

Lol yea him and his Pittbulls!

**Purple Floyd** · 03-06-2007, 02:06 PM

I bet Culpepper is happy that there is one less AFC linebacker to worry about sacking him and his bum leg

**cajunvike** · 03-06-2007, 02:17 PM

Good signing for the Dolphins!
I hope they get strong enough to cut the Putzies off at the knees!!!

**Prophet** · 03-07-2007, 01:04 PM

POSTED 11:21 a.m. EST; UPDATED 11:52 a.m. EST, March 7, 2007

FINS CRITICIZED FOR PAYING PORTER
pft.com

Though some league insiders are resigned to the fact that the current market for aging linebackers justifies the payment of $20 million in guaranteed money, others are blown away by the decision of the Dolphins to hand that kind of cash to linebacker Joey Porter.

Said one league source:
"Anyone who watched Porter on tape this year concluded that he was done, as in 'stick a fork in him' done.
The Dolphins paid way too much."

Frankly, we wonder whether it was a football move, or whether it was a "let's put butts in the seats" maneuver, since the loudly colorful (or colorfully loud) Porter brings a barking dog mindset that the Dolphins haven't had lately.
For the oft-disinterested South Floridians, Joey's fire could ignite the fan base.

Really, why shed a bunch of veterans in an apparent effort to go young and then replace them by giving too much money to a veteran whose past success might have had more to do with the system in the 'Burgh and less to do with his own personal skills?

Porter is, in our view, a glorified cheerleader who might still have some gas in the tank.
But not $20 million of it.

**cajunvike** · 03-07-2007, 02:31 PM

"Prophet" wrote:

POSTED 11:21 a.m. EST; UPDATED 11:52 a.m. EST, March 7, 2007

FINS CRITICIZED FOR PAYING PORTER
pft.com

Though some league insiders are resigned to the fact that the current market for aging linebackers justifies the payment of $20 million in guaranteed money, others are blown away by the decision of the Dolphins to hand that kind of cash to linebacker Joey Porter.

Said one league source:
"Anyone who watched Porter on tape this year concluded that he was done, as in 'stick a fork in him' done.
The Dolphins paid way too much."

Frankly, we wonder whether it was a football move, or whether it was a "let's put butts in the seats" maneuver, since the loudly colorful (or colorfully loud) Porter brings a barking dog mindset that the Dolphins haven't had lately.
For the oft-disinterested South Floridians, Joey's fire could ignite the fan base.

Really, why shed a bunch of veterans in an apparent effort to go young and then replace them by giving too much money to a veteran whose past success might have had more to do with the system in the 'Burgh and less to do with his own personal skills?

Porter is, in our view, a glorified cheerleader who might still have some gas in the tank.
But not $20 million of it.

I disagree...and hope that I am right.
If anything, I hope that Adalius Thomas is the one that starts to decline!