Well if you dont know Richmond Webb and Dick Anderson will be inducted into the dolphins honor roll this season but Jake Scott who played with Anderson in the secondary wont be. I knew Scott had his issues with Shula and doesnt go to any of the team functions but damn i aint know it was like this. i know nobody cares but i thought this was an interesting article.

 

No question Scott should be honored

 

The question has been appropriate across four decades of Dolphins history, as free safety and free spirit Jake Scott flashed through six stellar seasons in the 1970s and then disappeared, never to be heard from again. The brilliant black sheep of the franchise family, Scott has been a no-show at every club function, every anniversary. The glory-days past so embraced by other Miami coaches and players of that era is unwaveringly ignored by the exceptional one, the renegade embracing his own isolation.

 

Where's Jake?

 

SEARCH IS ON

 

The question has applied literally as well. Was he still in the mountains of Colorado? It is believed that today, at age 61, Scott is living on Hanalei Bay in coastal Kauai, Hawaii, still steadfastly incommunicado. He has grown to the status of franchise legend from equal parts accomplishment and mystery. There is an odd nobility to the man with his back to the parade.

 

Where's Jake?

 

The question became pertinent all over again this week.

 

The Dolphins announced that the 16th and 17th inductees onto the team's Honor Roll, tantamount to the franchise hall of fame, would be safety Dick Anderson and tackle Richmond Webb. Good choices. Both deserving.

 

But where's Jake?

 

Anderson and Scott comprised a secondary tandem inseparable to the team's success in their era, sort of an earlier, defensive version of the Marks Brothers, receivers Clayton and Duper. Miami's two Super-era safeties were a duo like peanut butter and jelly. Great alone. Better together.

 

Now Anderson gets his name gilded for all-time but Scott doesn't.

 

It doesn't make sense. It's wrong.

 

ENDURING SERVICE

 

Scott is to this day the club's career leader in interceptions with 35, one more than Anderson despite the latter playing 10 Dolphins seasons to Scott's six. Scott had more Pro Bowl selections, five to three. Scott also was the Perfect Season Super Bowl MVP. And is Miami's career leader in punt return yards, by the way.

 

Scott is being ostensibly penalized for his lack of longevity when Honor Roll inductee Paul Warfield played only five years with Miami.

 

Scott accomplished as much or arguably more in six years as Anderson did in 10. Moreover, his Dolphins career was cut short only because Don Shula abruptly traded him away, 30 years ago this week, in maybe the worst, most knee-jerk decision and deal Shula ever made.

 

Coming off yet another Pro Bowl season, Scott and a fourth-round draft pick were shipped to Washington in exchange for safety Bryan Salter, who amounted to nothing. Shula and Scott had sparred for years; the coach's doghouse might as well have been named Jakeville. The trade came one week after Scott refused a club-ordered painkiller shot that would have allowed him to play in an exhibition game.

 

Scott never forgave Shula, the cause of his unending estrangement from the franchise.

 

The Dolphins' company line is that Scott was among players under consideration and that his not going onto the Honor Roll is ''not based on personal relationships or whether somebody would be there [for the induction] or not,'' club senior vice president for media relations Harvey Greene said Tuesday.

 

You have to wonder, though. Admin Csonka was important to the franchise in a way Jim Kiick was not, even though they once were inseparable as ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.'' Webb stood out in a way guard Keith Sims did not, even though they were elbow to elbow in parallel timeline.

 

With Anderson and Scott, though, as with Clayton and Duper, you could argue which was greater, but never that one clearly was.

 

Honor Roll selections are made by a committee comprised of Shula, owner Wayne Huizenga and retired players Dan Marino, Csonka, Bob Griese and Nat Moore, with input from Greene and club president Bryan Wiedmeier.

 

It boggles the mind to think these great Dolphins historians got together and decided as a group to consider two great safeties of the same era and not anoint them as a tandem, instead happening to leave out the one with the career interceptions record, the career punt return record, more Pro Bowls and a Super Bowl MVP trophy.

 

''The smartest player I ever played with,'' Anderson himself once said of Scott. ``And tougher than anything you can imagine.''

 

Shula, not given to easy hyperbole, this week called Anderson and Scott ''as fine a pair of safeties as the NFL has ever had.'' Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti said: ``Dick Anderson and Jake Scott -- in my mind they were the best combination of safeties anywhere.''

 

Inseparable they were. Right up until the time the club's own Honor Roll separated them.

 

Anderson will be enshrined at halftime of the team's home game Dec. 3, and there will be a deserved ovation that day, but a question, too -- the one that never seems to have an answer that makes sense.

 

Where's Jake?

For some reason I dont think Jake Scott gives a sh*t one way or another. If he were inducted he'd probably just ignore it.

We have another defensive duo that will likely go in together eventually (or maybe even while they play!)