With Minkah Fitzpatrick gone, there’s only one Fitzpatrick in South Florida now
The news came late Monday night that former 1st Round pick Minkah Fitzpatrick was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers. While expected, it still came as a bit of a surprise. Minkah was sent north with a “2020 fourth-round pick and a 2021 seventh-round pick, in exchange for a first- and fifth-round pick in 2020 and 2021 sixth-round pick”.
This will give Miami three 1st Round picks alone next year and five over the next two drafts!
In total, Miami will have 14 selections come the draft day with 7 in the top 100 picks! Mindblowing because they might still end up trading away even more players for picks.
For Phinsnews, this is bittersweet. Both Jimmy and I were huge fans of the pick and expected Minkah to be a building block of the future. There was something about his story and reported personality that made you root for him.
Things aren’t always what they appear to be, it seems.
Minkah’s heel turn began early in this offseason when he made it clear that he wanted to know what position he would play so he could determine his playing weight. Some saw it as a warning sign. I defended him and dismissed it. But, then came his mother’s ‘Miko’ moment on twitter. Minkah agreed that his mother knew more than the coach… and he wasn’t happy.
His complaint was he had too many spots to handle. Odd response for a player that was said to be brilliant and had handled many positions.
While something was certainly rotten in demark… and South Florida (in retrospect), I put my hands to my ears, shut my eyes, and chanted, “nananana-nanana” till all the naughty voices were gone.
But even my intense denial melted away at his ‘request’–(demand)–to be traded. And his imitation of a zombie in run defense this week was the coup de grace for the Minkah in my imagination.
Now he is gone… and frankly, “There was the Minkah I made up, and Minkah the man.”
Minkah’s not a bad guy, but he’s not a great one either.
To quote an apropos comment from the Phinsnew boards by FlFred1 , “I just thought that Minkah was something more than a whiney young dude with talent. I suppose that I was wrong. Not the first time, and not the last.“
Couldn’t have said it better.
Thanks for helping me to get to bed a little bit earlier, FlFred1!
GOOD NEWS: We have more picks than you can swing a stick at! Bet with the sportsbook business sites for bookies that this will be nitro on crack for Phin Fan ‘hopium’ this offseason. It will be the Golden Age of drafts of Miami… if we pick right.
Time to kick your inner hater into overdrive, give it all the magic you got, and root for the Steelers and Texans to circle the drain. So far, they are both 1-3 combined. Not too shabby. Winning. Go Phins!!!
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