Miami Herald’s Omar Kelly Breaks Down Dolphins’ Darren Waller/Jalen Ramsey Trades | Rich Eisen Show

Miami Herald’s Omar Kelly Breaks Down Dolphins’ Darren Waller/Jalen Ramsey Trades | Rich Eisen Show

the Dolphins are going to fill the void left by trading Janu Smith with Jaylen Ramsey to the Steelers uh by trading for Darren Waller uh and bringing him out of retirement and he’s going to be the tight end in Miami your first blush thoughts on that Omar uh it it doesn’t surprise me from this standpoint um Steve Ross is an owner who likes to swing for the fences um I just didn’t know i thought it was a possibility especially with the connection to Drew Rosenhouse and Waller um I just didn’t know if Waller was ready to get back to playing football again and it looks like he is
yeah I I I guess so you know and I I guess that’s the Giants game out of nowhere is that he wants to come out of retirement and they could at least get something for him um and so he just plugs in where John Smith is and we were all wondering where they’re going to find a tight end at the top of July with training camp but there he is right absolutely um Darren Waller’s established himself as an elite player in this league um you every most people would know about his substance abuse issue and how he’s basically rebuilt his life and you know he’s got a great story uh yes last year he stepped away from football cuz obviously he didn’t find the love for it went to be a rapper and now I guess he’s back the rap career didn’t take off
he he went back into his lane I guess right Omar you know uh uh hey who knows who knows you know Shaq Shaq went platinum you know you never you’re never going to underestimate these guys
i know and we who talks about Kazam right now these days right Omar nobody talks about it unless we bring it up to Shaq but any rate um so that’s the news there let’s you know obviously revisit the Jaylen Ramsay portion of this can you explain why somebody of Jaylen Ramsay’s caliber um got traded away by a Dolphins team that could clearly use him
well Jaylen Ramsay if to best describe him he’s a mercenary um he’s a gun for hire uh the Dolphins traded for him two years ago to make a title run but they just aren’t in that position right now they they are a team that’s clearly rebuilding and getting younger um and unfortunately Jaylen and Mike McDaniel or or Jaylen and the culture of the locker room wasn’t a good fit and the Dolphins feel like they have to change the culture of the team and of the locker room and and that meant that Jaylen Ramsay had to go now fortunately for them they found somebody who was willing to not only trade for him uh but take on his massive contract most people don’t realize this but the Dolphins are going to eat $18.5 million in cap space because of the the the the contracts that and because of the trade and because of the contracts with Jaylen Jaylen Jaylen Ramsay so it’s not like the Dolphins are taking this victory lap uh for moving Ramsay but they’re certainly happy that he’s somewhere he wants to be and that they also got good value for him in in Minka Fitzpatrick but you know another component of that was the John Smith they traded two Pro Bowlers for one Pro Bowler in a fifth round pick and now we see what that second move is
well yeah I know the second move being Darren Waller so I guess Dolphins fans might ask the question Omar is h how does this make the Dolphins better how does this make him better
it it it makes them better from the standpoint Waller’s probably a more accomplished player than John Smith who did have a career year with the Miami Dolphins set franchise records in every category um but he was also 30 um the Janu situation with Janu was the Dolphins were happy with him he was just under contract for $4 million and the Pittsburgh Steelers gave him 12 so he tripled his salary in one season by getting traded to Miami so it it’s it’s it’s going to be interesting to see what they give up for Darren Waller and and whether or not this is this is something that makes the offense better because Tua did have a tremendous amount of chemistry with with Ju Smith catch the Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from 12 to 3:00 p.m

Miami Herald columnist Omar Kelly tells Rich Eisen why the Dolphins traded CB Jalen Ramsey to the Steelers and reacts to TE Darren Waller coming out of retirement for a trade to Miami.

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