Vonnie Holliday confused about the Taylor trade

Dolphins defensive lineman Vonnie Holliday, a friend and teammate of Jason Taylor’s since 2005, doesn’t know how the team will replace the six-time Pro Bowl stalwart.

“It’s definitely going to be weird not having 99 out there,” Holliday said. “He’s a great player, a great friend. I’m certainly sad to see him go and I don’t quite understand the move.

“I don’t see how it helps us in the immediate future. If we were getting something today that’d be different.

“It kind of puts a little bit of taste in your mouth like the Chris Chambers deal four games into last year. What exactly are we doing? I can’t wait to get back to find out, and hopefully they’ve got a plan to pull some rabbit out of a hat or have something up their sleeve to prove otherwise.”

Not sure what there is to be confused about clearly the Dolphins are a team in a rebuilding phase. He couldn’t tell by cutting Green, Booker or Thomas? Vonnie more than likely the starting LE is going to make the team, but him not knowing his place is not good. This team was 1-15 last season and an improvement of 6 to 7 games to compete for the wild card is somewhat out of the question.

This process, will take more than 2 years, maybe one if next off-season the Dolphins get a high pick and hit Free Agency well. This year is a prove it or get cut year for the veterans because Sparano, Ireland and Parcells will all be here next year. And to make this team better they will have to keep the good veterans and get rid of the waste of space ones. Vonnie has 3 more years left on his contract and his pay goes up $1.15 million next year so this could be a make or break year for him, with Merling, Langford and possibly Dotson coming along to take over his spot.

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