You can draft well and still miss the point. The Dolphins did plenty of tidy work and somehow never got around to edge rusher, which was the need that mattered most. They moved the roster forward and banked a B for it.

The James pick is the one they will point to when this weekend is judged. Every board in the league had Jones lower, and that gap is the story. The trades cost them a sliver of value they did not need to spend.

The future picks help the war chest more than the win-now roster.

Bottom line, more hits than misses and a roster nudged the right way.