Does anyone really understand what dolphins have just done?

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Free Miami Dolphins security, 29-year-old Minkah Fitzpatrick looks up, during an NFL football match against the New England Patriots on Sunday, September 15, 2019 in Miami Gardens, Florida (Photo AP / Lynne Sladky)

If I had run the Miami Dolphins, I would not have traded Minkah Fitzpatrick. It represents the exact type of 22-year-old player the Dolphins need. You do not give up on this because he says, "I'm unhappy."

So, Fitzpatrick wanted to be traded?

So what?

And the big problem that the Dolphins got the first round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers next spring in the exchange. Let's see that. Maybe they're lucky with this choice. Maybe Pittsburgh (0-2) continues to lose without quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, absent for the season after an elbow injury. Maybe it becomes a choice among the top 10 projects.

Maybe they could turn that into a player like, for example, Minkah Fitzpatrick, whom the Dolphins qualified 11th in 2018.

I am already stunned by this reconstruction of the revolving door.

Dolphins owner Steve Ross said on Saturday night that his plan was to "think outside the box" after years of defeat. But are they also out of their minds?

Oh, the stories will now tell us how Fitzpatrick was a bad apple, quoting chapter and verse of what he had done, as they always do at this point. But a year ago, Alabama coach Nick Saban said that Fitzpatrick was his favorite player and the scouts showed how he was the cleanest of all hopes.

In a way, the dolphins lost that player. Fitzpatrick has lost all confidence in this organization. Even under the weight of the headlines he wanted, Fitzpatrick was named ProFootballFocus.com's best defenseman of the Dolphins in the loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday.

The Steelers also have Fitzpatrick for cheap. The dolphins have paid the bulk of his salary over the next few years. It will cost Pittsburgh about $ 1.5 million on average over the next four years. It's nothing for a great talent. So, not only do they have the most talented talent, but they also have more money to buy someone else.

Once again, how is this reconstruction for the dolphins?

This really shows that this season has moved away from the dolphins that Ross has entrusted to the reconstruction. The general manager, Chris Grier, went too far in the tanking with this formation and his coach, Brian Flores, lost the locker room. You scored 102-10 in your first two games because of your lack of talent and all hope, and that's what happens.

Good luck to find the locker room this year without dropping the other players. Now, the few remaining veterans do not want to leave. They know that if they have a problem, they can get out of it. Who is next? Xavien Howard?

The dolphins have signed Howard for a big contract last spring. You wonder what vision there was right now. The best scenario for this team fighting for something meaningful is four years.

Howard will be 30 years old, the outer edges for an excellent half corner. And he thinks he will be happy to waste his best years until then, so you might as well exchange it, as he will not be either happy in the locker room.

Here's the real problem: the dolphins want you to share your vision of the future. And it's not a bad vision. Two quarterback drafts are aligned. They did not think that they would be so bad, but they are. That's why they are striving for a quarter of a franchise in 2020 or – the two-year tank arrived – next year, when Trevor Lawrence of Clemson could be there.

Again, as expected, this is not a bad plan if you can handle two years of play in New England 43, Dolphins 0.

The question remains whether this dolphin management team can do it. Grier asked Fitzpatrick to recruit Fitzpatrick in 2018 even though Ross wanted to trade against quarterback Lamar Jackson. How did it work? Baltimore rebuilt by making series under Jackson. The dolphins are tanking.

Grier's second round pick for this 2018 project, half-tight Mike Gesicki, is invisible.

Grier's first choice in 2017, defensive back Charles Harris, is more invisible than Gesicki.

Grier's second pick in 2017, linebacker Raekwon McMillan, had no impact.

Does this expose the risk in this reconstruction? Does this inspire Ross's trust in the right people? Everything in this franchise is based on Grier. All. And maybe it's going as in the 2016 project that produced Laremy Tunsil, Howard, Kenyan Drake and Jakeem Grant.

Or maybe he's writing as he has done since.

As it stands, Pittsburgh is among the top talent in another smart initiative involving the Dolphins. Look over the years at the players that Pittsburgh has cleverly thrown at, veterans that the Dolphins have desperately recruited through free will. Joey Porter. Mike Wallace. Lawrence Timmons. Do I need to go?

Now, the Dolphins are giving up a 22-year-old talent that Pittsburgh gets for a # 1 pick. And who knows? Maybe Grier turns this choice into a player as good as the one just released.

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