i don't think you understand the NFL. Most guys have played 12-14 years of true competition football. Most college players have played 8 if they started every year, and didn't forgo their senior year. Experience kills inexperience. The Browns may suck by NFL standards, but they would win the national championship every year if you placed them in college, and make Bama look like LSU.
Btw the dolphins were a playoff team.
Miami made the playoffs, but they weren't a playoff team. The Pittsburgh Steeler showed them as much in the 1st round. Miami managed to compile 10 wins against the worst teams in the league and all teams with losing records. And they're not two deep at every position with NFL talent. Not even one deep at every position with NFL talent.
Secondly, Miami was 1-5 until they finally cut Dallas Thomas and Billy Turner. Immediately after that, they went on a 6 game winning streak. Here's the deal...it took a 21 year old rookie from the SEC with ZERO NFL experience to come in and solidify Miami's offensive line. Laremy Tunsil. You may have heard of him. Not to mention he was even playing out of position at LG instead of LT. Why? Because the guy who had already been with the team with 5 years of NFL experience looked like this for 2/3 of the snaps he ever played in the NFL....
Don't give me that experience kills inexperience garbage. Talent wins. And the NFL doesn't have nearly as much of it as you think it does.
But I get it. This guy was an "NFL starter". So he must be good. I mean, he's in the NFL. He's a starter. Do I need to run down the list of fundamental flaws Dallas Thomas displays there? But he has to be better than anybody playing in college though. He's a starter...in the NFL. BTW, that's not Reggie White putting him on his fanny. It's George Selvie....a 7th round pick out of powerhouse USF in 2010 who was on his 5th team in 3 years by the time he reached the Cowboys, and had done absolutely nothing in the NFL.
Do you think George Selvie does that to Cam Robinson right now? Right now...today. If they lined up across from each other today, do you believe Cam Robinson would get abused like that? I'd bet you as high as you wanted to bet that it wouldn't even be close.
But this is the type of players that NFL rosters are chock full of that many of you just pass off as NFL talent. He's not bad by NFL standards, he's bad by any standard. He would've been pulling splinters out of his butt if he played like that at Alabama. But he got away with it for years in the NFL with Miami. There are players this incompetent at every position on the field throughout ever roster in the league.
It's kinda like the difference between Johnny Archer and the 16 year old kid who plays pro level 9-ball that nobody really knows. Everybody knows Johnny Archer, but they'll both put a 6 pack down on you so fast your head will spin. I've seen that 16 year old kid beat Johnny Archer in a tournament for all the cash.
You overestimate the talent in the NFL, and overestimate the talent gap between big time SEC football and the have-nots in the NFL. I don't think you understand the NFL.