The Dolphins are slowly but surely working their way toward signing all of their draft picks this summer and today another rookie is in the house, as they say, because receiver Brian Hartline has agreed to terms with the team.
The coming signing, first reported by Brian McIntyre on Mac's Football Blog, brings the number of Dolphins rookies who have either agreed to or signed their first NFL contracts to five, including both wide receivers.
Hartline's four-year contract could be worth just under $4 million if he reaches all his incentives and escalator clauses. The actual worth of the deal is more along the lines of $2.25 million with a guaranteed bonus in the $500,000 neighborhood.
No further financial details are currently available. The Dolphins will announce the signing once Hartline actually puts his signature on the document, which could by the end of this week.
Patrick Turner, John Nalbone, Andrew Gardner and JD Folsom have signed previously. This is good news but not exactly man-bites-dog stuff as the Dolphins have had all of their rookies signed by the end of the first weekend of training camp in each of the past two years.
General Manager Jeff Ireland continues to work to make certain the streak is extended to three consecutive years. The Dolphins take the field for their first training camp practice Aug. 2.
First-rounder Vontae Davis, second-rounders Pat White and Sean Smith and fifth-round pick Chris Clemons have yet to agree to deals.
By the way, if you followed on twitter you would have gotten the heads up that I had posted this blog seconds after I did it. You could have gotten it on your phone or blackberry device. I'd be more a part of your life!
OK, so maybe that's more than you want. But you get the idea. Follow me on twitter.
I enjoy the efficiency of this group running the Dolphins now. Still getting used to this team being run properly again.
Can you imagine this group drafting Jason Allen? Can you imagine the guy holding out?
Posted by: Mr Yu | July 14, 2009 at 03:47 PM
I don't know why they would care if a pick after the 5th overall would sign anyway. If they don't sign they don't play. One year out of football and it hurts big time.
Posted by: klndry | July 14, 2009 at 04:04 PM
Please tell me you're back from vacation. It's impossible to find anything worth reading when you're not blogging or writing.
Posted by: Matty Idiot | July 14, 2009 at 04:07 PM
YESSSSSS!!!!
ARMANDO IS BACK.
THE HATERS CAN CRAWL BACK UNDER THEIR ROCKS.
IT'S JOURNALISM TIME.
Posted by: Gary Stevens | July 14, 2009 at 04:10 PM
details of the deal:
http://tinsfins.blogspot.com/2009/07/please-sign-on-dotted-hartline.html
Posted by: Tinshaker | July 14, 2009 at 04:15 PM
I agree that Jason Allen was a bad pick at 16th overall. HOWEVER, as Barry Jackson recently mentioned in one of his columns, football guru KC Joyner rated 98 NFL cornerbacks (based on film study, not opinion), and Jason Allen was the 55th rated corner. That means that at worst, he grades out as an average nickelback in the NFL. You can bash the fact that he was a 1st round pick, but the guy is a functional NFL player, dont talk about him like he's out of the league.
Posted by: Fake GM | July 14, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Barry Jackson is usually pretty goods. Better than we all. But that post about Jason Allen was full of poop. Mando would has never posted that garbage.
It's terribles your back from vacay Mando. Bad news foe us foe sure.
Douches.
Posted by: Omar Kooky and Harvey Fialwhatever | July 14, 2009 at 04:40 PM
It's about freaking time you got back from vacation. I'm shocked there was a paper in my driveway every morning while you were gone -- not that it was worth reading without you.
Welcome back amigo.
Posted by: Willi Chirino | July 14, 2009 at 04:43 PM
Please check out my interview with WR Anthony Armstrong here:
http://tinsfins.blogspot.com/2009/07/anthony-armstrong-exclusive-interview.html
Posted by: Tinshaker | July 14, 2009 at 04:51 PM
Jesus.. Armando why did you have to come back and give us this garbage of a article..... i want to here about who did u bang on ur vacation...
Posted by: lil peni* | July 14, 2009 at 05:08 PM
The menace has arrived, great that the mighty air breathing mammals have signed another draftee,who's vontae's agent?? hopefully not mr.rosenhus...whats the first Q for the menace???
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 05:18 PM
Dear Mr.Salguero
Welcome back Mr. Kotter
Me, Vinnie Barbarino, Arnold Horshack, Freddie boom boom Washington, Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein have all missed you.
Hope you and the Miss's had a nice vacation.
Anyhoo on to your article.
"This is good news but not exactly man-bites-dog stuff "
Believe me that days commin.
My neigbhors dog has pooped on my lawn one too many times.
Soiled :)
P.S. Dolphins Good, Jets Bad (Football Talk)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 05:19 PM
You know the more i thik about it,with buffalo still w/o a q.b, the pats aging, and the jets,jets,jets in disarray, im thinking miami could win division with 10 wins, but man what a tough schedule.....
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 05:28 PM
cuban, who's your favorite dolphin beside ted ginn ?
soiled, what bread is your neigbhor's dog ?
Posted by: red | July 14, 2009 at 05:36 PM
Great Q red, my favorite air breathing mammal that spends its life in the ocean is flipper, which brings up the question, why cant porpoises be found in fresh waters????actually my favorite dolphin player is matt roth...
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 05:42 PM
Dear Mr. Salguero
" You could have gotten it on your phone or blackberry device. I'd be more a part of your life!"
I'm not sure I like your tone Mr.Salguero
Blackberry, Twitter what are these things you speak of ?
I'm not really sure where this relationship is heading and I cant be just running off twittering with you all day.
But will promise you this, If you come to this Blog I will be here for you.
Lots of Man on Man appreciation.
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 05:43 PM
does the menace loves hunting ?
what do you hunt if you do ?
ducks,
deer
rabbits
Posted by: aloco | July 14, 2009 at 05:45 PM
How about changing the twitter commercial to a signature line as some of us INTENTIONALLY avoid that s*** (stuff!)
Thanks and welcome back.
Posted by: Twitter Hater | July 14, 2009 at 05:47 PM
Dear mr. Red
"soiled, what bread is your neigbhor's dog ?"
I think its a Wonder Bread Dog or a Natures Harvest Whole wheat Dog.
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 05:49 PM
Dear Mr. Red
""soiled, what bread is your neigbhor's dog ?"
I think you mean what Breed.
I'm not sure if my neigbhors dog is Pork or Chicken.
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 05:51 PM
Aloco, no i hate hunting, i hate the fact that people hunt animals with guns, i say make it fair, hunt with your hands, or at least arm the animals with some type of weapon..(though animals are ill equipped because they don't possess thumbs, which makes it difficult to fire a weapon..)Next Q for the menace...
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 05:53 PM
i am going to be on first date w/ woman friend,what is the best move to do to leave no doubt in her mind that i am in love just to get laid menace ?
Posted by: aloco | July 14, 2009 at 05:56 PM
Soiled, whats your opinion about twittering???
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 05:56 PM
Dear Mr. Aloco
"i am going to be on first date w/ woman friend,what is the best move to do to leave no doubt in her mind that i am in love just to get laid menace ?"
Go to Hulu.com and search for the video "Dick in a box"
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 05:59 PM
Aloco, the best move is the old double reverse play my friend , aka running out of gas ....next Q for the cuban..
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:02 PM
twittering only good for the sick person who wants to feel important and following some one else for crap .
Posted by: gorgedolphin | July 14, 2009 at 06:03 PM
Soiled, well done my messy bottomed friend...well done..
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:04 PM
Dear Mr. Menace
"Soiled, whats your opinion about twittering???"
I can barely keep up with my own thoughts let alone following Mr. Salguero's daily thoughts.
Although I signed up its really not my thing.
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 06:05 PM
Agree with you soiled on the twitter thing, i personally think it's gay..(not that there's anything wrong with that..)
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:08 PM
soiled ,did you ever used that box ? any thing else coming with it or just the D
Posted by: gorgedolphin | July 14, 2009 at 06:15 PM
cuban, did you notice any animal won't attack a human unless it was attacked first but humans go for hunting without prior notice ?
Posted by: Aloco | July 14, 2009 at 06:18 PM
I hear the guy that played the "predator" is available, he'd be a good pick up on the free agency market, you know with that cannon on his shoulder he could be out of position and still render a wide out.. well he could kill him.. what are your thoughts?? i think he played for k.c last year he had 23 pass break ups and killed 5 receivers...
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:20 PM
Yo menace
Posted by: PriceMaster | July 14, 2009 at 06:20 PM
My cousin master told me to check you out
Posted by: PriceMaster | July 14, 2009 at 06:22 PM
Aloco first date, woman must be blind
Posted by: Marshal | July 14, 2009 at 06:23 PM
Dear Mr. Gorgedolphin
"soiled ,did you ever used that box "
Not till they invented Viagra.
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 06:24 PM
Menace, The predator can also be semi invisible to fool the quaterback as well
Posted by: Ace | July 14, 2009 at 06:25 PM
You ever see his women Leticia?
Yo when she wears the white cigarette pants with the white tank top and white pumps?
He doesn't know anything about the fins anyway.
You ask me? Pat White was the best football player in the draft, period. Not only can he run all the bubble screens that Wes Welker can, he can run every play that Reggie Bush does, better.
Posted by: PriceMaster | July 14, 2009 at 06:28 PM
Great point ace...Sign him, though i wonder if his dreads would fit in a dolphin helmet??
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:29 PM
so you got the box when they started to put the Viagra in it ?
did it help you and how did you use the D
Posted by: Aloco | July 14, 2009 at 06:35 PM
Oh yeah, price master i know your cousin Master we went to the same school but 3 years apart, i think he took political science, i myself took something else, but we were in Manhattan just a year or two off from each other..tell him i said hi....
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:38 PM
Dear Mr. Aloco
"so you got the box when they started to put the Viagra in it ?
did it help you and how did you use the D"
Dont play inocent with me, you and I both know we all have used the box trick you get that special someone at one time or another.
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 06:40 PM
Mando,
ENOUGH with the twitter commercials.
Posted by: y-not | July 14, 2009 at 06:43 PM
Soiled, I used the old hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket trick in high school...
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:44 PM
but havent yoused it in 17 years...
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:45 PM
Master price, ask him how the things are going on wall street....
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 06:47 PM
Dear Mr. Menace
"Soiled, I used the old hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket trick in high school..."
Ahhhh those where the days my friend, Those where the days.(Not the High school part, the part about the popcorn bucket)
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 06:49 PM
please soiled, we always look up to you for a person who never used that box .
Posted by: Aloco | July 14, 2009 at 06:55 PM
Signing them all is step one. Step two will be more interesting, the competition phase. Making the team is step three. If Hartline does make the team, it'll be interesting to see if he can beat Bess, who all but made us forget Welker in just half a season. The team could use competition like that at every position.
Posted by: perspective | July 14, 2009 at 06:57 PM
Dear Mr. Aloco
"please soiled, we always look up to you for a person who never used that box"
It is a well known fact that useing the D in a box trick is acceptable on a second date.
ask any of your friends.
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 07:07 PM
OK kids the menace has 20 more minutes left, so shoot the Qs quick..
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 07:10 PM
thanks soiled,please consider me one of your new fans.i have to go now ,see you tomorrow
Posted by: Aloco | July 14, 2009 at 07:18 PM
Dear Mr. Aloco
"thanks soiled,please consider me one of your new fans.i have to go now ,see you tomorrow"
Hugs and kiss's
Just no reach arounds
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 07:20 PM
Ok guys, Thanks mando for posting only your 2nd blog in a week(you still must be on vacation, or you must be twittering(which sounds gay)(not that there's anything wrong with that)Ill talk to you guys tommarrow , peace bitcches..
Posted by: cuban menace | July 14, 2009 at 07:25 PM
soiled every time comes here , he never talks any football .now he's teaching some idiot like the menace how to use the box
Posted by: gary copper | July 14, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Dear Mr. Gary Copper
"soiled every time comes here,he never talks any football"
Not true
From me just a few posts ago
"Soiled :)
P.S. Dolphins Good, Jets Bad (Football Talk)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 05:19 PM "
Soiled :)
Posted by: SoiledBottom | July 14, 2009 at 07:36 PM
sorry soiled bottom, i didn't see that.
Posted by: gary copper | July 14, 2009 at 07:39 PM
Dear Mr. Soiled Bottom
I was tempted to ask Armando if Brian Hartline even has a chance to make the practice squad, let alone the team. However, in large part due to me being a kind and compassionate Norse God, I thought it best to let him get back to his tweetering as quickly as possible.
Mr. Bottom, my being a God and all, I'm not use to asking for advice. Just the same I find myself in a dilema. What does a man of your stature find more desireable?
A big fat women ugly as sin. Big hands for great massages. Keeps you warm on those cold nights. And of course cooks like a chef.
OR
A cute little hottie dumb as a sack of rocks. A couple of D's that defy the laws of gravity. Legs like a gymnast, but, of course, can't even find a kitchen.
I suppose some would say I'm in a win win situation. Just looking for some objective clarity.
Posted by: odinseye | July 14, 2009 at 08:27 PM
Cuban Menace
You will be missed.
Will we be able to "follow" you on tweeter?
Peace back at ya be-atch!!!!
Posted by: odinseye | July 14, 2009 at 08:34 PM
Cuban Menace
You will be missed.
Will we be able to follow you on tweeter?
Peace back at ya beech
Posted by: odinseye | July 14, 2009 at 08:37 PM