sadly: the Miami Dolphins are losing a superstar due to……..

sadly: the Miami Dolphins are losing a superstar due to……..

The Miami Dolphins are about to lose a defensive superstar; a Cameron Wake loss will be difficult

for the Dolphins and their fans to swallow after years of dominance at the edge

Another year has passed, and the off-season has arrived, and everyone on the planet now knows everything. You can go to any social media site or sports news channel and find hundreds of people claiming that their source has this football guy talking to this football team; it’s simply exhausting trying to weed through all of these self-proclaimed gurus to figure out what might be legit and what is a huge load.

It seems to happen every year, but there are a few guys out there with a legitimate pulse for your team. Every year, players you may have liked and cheered for, or even purchased merchandise for, leave to play for another team. It’s only the

So it’s difficult when a mainstay superstar reaches the end of his career or is let go by a franchise due to financial constraints or a player’s age.

Cameron Wake has been one of my favorite Miami Dolphins players over the last ten years. On the field, he was a ferocious beast. Cameron Wake could always be counted on to step up and make a big play in a big situation. He was a physical freak who could wreck havoc on anyone on the other side of him at any given time. Cameron Wake was a wrecking ball on the edge.

Cameron Wake’s path to NFL stardom was not an easy one

Cameron Wake finally got his chance to impress the Miami Dolphins with a workout in January 2009. The regime realized what a player they had just seen and quickly signed him to a four-year contract with a million-dollar bonus. The difficult journey to the NFL had finally paid off. The blood, sweat, and pain had finally gotten him the shot he had been due for years.

You should never say the words “you can’t do it” to Mr. Cameron Wake. This simply fuels his desire to do it better than ever before. From being told he wasn’t good enough for the NFL to being told he’d never recover from an Achilles injury, Cameron Wake simply doesn’t understand limitations; he’s not wired that way.

Cameron Wake joins a bad Miami Dolphins team in 2009. A team with an offense led by Chad Henne, enough said, a team with a lot of problems on both sides of the ball. So, after a quiet 2009 season (5.5 sacks/1 game started), Cameron Wake appears

We all enjoyed countless sacks delivered to, if my math is correct, an incredible 19 different quarterbacks, with 3rd down stops, pass deflections, and even an interception, but let’s not forget enjoying 10.5 soul crushing sacks delivered to one Tom Brady

I myself, will never forget that sack, it still makes me smile and gives me chills thinking about it. I remember coming 6 feet off my couch screaming “Hell Yeah Wake!”, of course there might have been some not so clean added verbiage in that comment as well. I absolutely love watching Cameron Wake come off that low dip, rise up under the tackles outside shoulder and reach for the QB or even better getting an unobstructed open shot, man it was a thing of beauty.

But, as all things, father time catches everyone and even the best of the best fall to his curse. It appears the end has come for Cameron Wake in the Aqua and Orange and it is definitely an end to an era. It is in fact a sad reminder that time has passed to quickly and one of my favorite players time has again come and gone and I will truly miss his passion, his game and his beast-mode celebration that only he could deliver to get the fans out of their seats screaming.

It will really seem odd not having number 91 setting the edge out there for the Miami Dolphins and I guess we will have to sit back and wait for the next great edge rusher, but if time has told us anything, this franchise has a knack of finding Hall of Fame pass rushers.

A personal thank you Mr. Derek Cameron Wake, it’s been a real honor to watch you ball out for the Miami Dolphins, you will be missed, but never forgot. You might don some unfamiliar colors for a few more years, but I know you will retire a Miami Dolphin and hopefully will get your number froze in time on the ring of honor, you’ve earned it