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My Fears of What This Offseason Means

I see a lot of worry in this thread about Mike and CG possibly having a longer leash than just next year bc of what we’re doing or better yet… not doing in FA.

I’ll say this… if we aren’t a playoff team and Mike and/or CG return for 2026 then it’s very obvious that Ross just doesn’t care anymore and as some have stated… is just worried about turning a profit.

This team will NOT be competitive this coming season and we’re nowhere close to a playoff team.

I see some are trying to sugarcoat it and that’s all well and good bc we’re fans of the team but deep down… even those people know the truth. This team can not and will not beat Buffalo/KC/Baltimore and that’s what it takes in the AFC to get to the SB and that’s the ultimate goal.

Mike is a joke as a HC and has no business roaming our sidelines next season yet he will. Same for Grier in the front office. We have compete buffoons calling the shots and Ross wonders why we can’t truly compete with good teams.

The ceiling this coming season is 7/8 wins. That is the ceiling. We’re probably more of a 5/6 win team to be honest.

We just need to get through this upcoming season and pray we start over with a new HC and GM for 2026.

These 2 morons have zero plan or direction of what this team is or is trying to be. I truly think they just throw stuff on the wall and see what sticks.

Look at the winning franchises in this league. They have a plan… a direction and they go out and sign FAs and draft players that fit that plan or direction.

It all starts up front in the trenches on both sides of the ball and no one in Miami is ever going to figure that out.

Tua is problem by himself on top of the lack of strength in the trenches. We’re going nowhere fast with the trio of Mike/CG/Tua. It hasn’t worked and it’s not going to work.

By bringing those 2 morons back Ross has set this season up as a pure throw away season. What does that say to the fan base? He doesn’t care bc he’s laughing all the way to the bank. It really makes one apathetic.

It’s truly hard being a fan of the Miami Dolphins…. Sigh….
 
This off-season can mean I'm a ****ing piece of ****, I'll wait for the real season to see the truth...but can I handle it?
 
Marino2.0 said:
No. That’s not how the cap works. Signing big name big money guys is always an option because you can always push cap hits into future years. The Eagles and Saints have been doing it for years, and even more teams are doing it this offseason because it’s a copycat league and the Eagles just won a Super Bowl doing it.
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Laughable post. You can’t be serious here or is this just comedy? Let’s name all the big free agent signings the eagles used to win the title beyond Barkley. I’ll wait. You do know the eagles have FIVE homegrown first round picks on their roster directly contributing to their title, and 8 of 11 defensive starters acquired by the eagles in their own drafts right? Of course you knew that. To even attempt to allude to the reason the eagles won the title is due to a roster built from big free agent signings is insulting at best. This franchise drafts well and manages their cap. They even had close to 10M of unused cap in 2024.
 
MiaFins31 said:
I see a lot of worry in this thread about Mike and CG possibly having a longer leash than just next year bc of what we’re doing or better yet… not doing in FA.

I’ll say this… if we aren’t a playoff team and Mike and/or CG return for 2026 then it’s very obvious that Ross just doesn’t care anymore and as some have stated… is just worried about turning a profit.

This team will NOT be competitive this coming season and we’re nowhere close to a playoff team.

I see some are trying to sugarcoat it and that’s all well and good bc we’re fans of the team but deep down… even those people know the truth. This team can not and will not beat Buffalo/KC/Baltimore and that’s what it takes in the AFC to get to the SB and that’s the ultimate goal.

Mike is a joke as a HC and has no business roaming our sidelines next season yet he will. Same for Grier in the front office. We have compete buffoons calling the shots and Ross wonders why we can’t truly compete with good teams.

The ceiling this coming season is 7/8 wins. That is the ceiling. We’re probably more of a 5/6 win team to be honest.

We just need to get through this upcoming season and pray we start over with a new HC and GM for 2026.

These 2 morons have zero plan or direction of what this team is or is trying to be. I truly think they just throw stuff on the wall and see what sticks.

Look at the winning franchises in this league. They have a plan… a direction and they go out and sign FAs and draft players that fit that plan or direction.

It all starts up front in the trenches on both sides of the ball and no one in Miami is ever going to figure that out.

Tua is problem by himself on top of the lack of strength in the trenches. We’re going nowhere fast with the trio of Mike/CG/Tua. It hasn’t worked and it’s not going to work.

By bringing those 2 morons back Ross has set this season up as a pure throw away season. What does that say to the fan base? He doesn’t care bc he’s laughing all the way to the bank. It really makes one apathetic.

It’s truly hard being a fan of the Miami Dolphins…. Sigh….
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Mello Yello said:
I think the Dolphins fanbase sees the team much more negatively than does the team's leadership who likely felt they were on the verge and had largely done the right things in '22.

I find myself saying this too often, but back in '22 this same forum was calling CG the best GM in football for having assembled the NFL's "most talented team" around it's QB1.

CG & MM went after these players, embracing them as they were acquired and incorporated. People act like this team wants to move on from Tua, trade Tyreek or release Chubb. I highly doubt that. It's probably quite the opposite. They extended Tua last year and just did so with Chubb as well.

This team isn't looking to blow it up nor do they expect to be uncompetitive in '25. They want to make the necessary adjustments to get back to being competitive coming off a '24 that saw a bunch of struggle: new DC, exodus of Flores-era defensive players, loss of multiple $100M trench players, injury to both elite edge players, etc.

Last year CG invested in long-term, developmental pieces at critical positions in the draft (Edge, LT, WR, RB) while adding value in starting-caliber FAs at TE, C and MLB who were all low-cost value-adds.

I fully expect CG to continue with that type of philosophy this year while getting numerous players back healthy including QB1, WR1, Edge1 and Edge 2. I see nothing wrong with making smart, efficient decisions that maximize your chances in the event your QB1 actually protects himself.

If QB1 gets hurt again, great, you're off the hook and moving on in the next draft.

In the interim, just keep doing what you started doing last year. Keep stacking those good offseasons and you end up in a good place.
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Mello,
There are things in 2022 that we fans did not yet know: 1. How McGenius's culture philosophy was. We had no idea of the frat-hose mentality was going to be. 2. McGenius was tabbed an "offensive" genius by the NFL media and our fanbase was just so hungry for Tua to show what he had and a coach that at least would give him a chance and not F with the kid's head like Flores did. 3. We did not know that Tua was going to average missing 5 games a year. 4. We did not realize that Grier's lack of commitment to the trenches until the famous stupid statement "You guys are more concerned with that unit than we are." as McGenius smirked in agreement. 5. We trusted football people maybe knew more than the fans, or the media did...we were wrong. 6. Maybe some of us realized but some just trusted how top-heavy this roster build was but some of us again trusted Grier's knowledge. The injury bug bit us two years in a row and the team fell apart. 7. Now it comes out that McGenius has lost the locker room with players missing meetings, assistant coach's looking the other way and a culture that is like watching Pee-Wee's playhouse. In closing, I don't trust Grier or McGenius. They are who they are, you are not going to change them. Ross's poor judgement by not letting them two clowns go has us fans just waiting to be told yet again... it's raining while Grier and McGenius are pissing down our legs!
 
Third Eye said:
Laughable post. You can’t be serious here or is this just comedy? Let’s name all the big free agent signings the eagles used to win the title beyond Barkley. I’ll wait. You do know the eagles have FIVE homegrown first round picks on their roster directly contributing to their title, and 8 of 11 defensive starters acquired by the eagles in their own drafts right? Of course you knew that. To even attempt to allude to the reason the eagles won the title is due to a roster built from big free agent signings is insulting at best. This franchise drafts well and manages their cap. They even had close to 10M of unused cap in 2024.
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Okay, go ahead and wait. Won’t take me long.

Here are their free agent signings from just last offseason: CJ Gardner-Johnson $33 million, Devin White $7.5 million, Saquon Barkley over $40 million, Bryce Huff $51 million.

For those counting at home, that’s about $130 million of free agent spending just last year (not even including All Pro Baun who they found on the cheap), which they piled on top of over a dozen massive contracts for players already on their roster including Hurts, Brown, Smith, Goedert, Lane Johnson, Mailata, Dickerson, Slay, and Sweat, plus over $10 million in dead cap for Brandon Graham and James Bradberry. They are jam packed with massive contracts that don’t fit under a single season’s cap.

And oh yeah, the Eagles “manage their cap well.” LOL. They have $55 million in dead cap this season before even getting to June 1. They don’t manage the cap well at all — they just don’t care about the cap and treat it like the mild inconvenience it is. They push all the money into future cap years.
 
The Goat said:
I am of the opinion that the reason that Grier and McDaniel aren't mortgaging the future is because Ross isn't allowing them to. I believe he's basically giving them one year to get the ship properly headed in the direction they chose back in 2022...or else.
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I was upset they weren't both fired at the end of last year, but then I realized you don't want to hire a new coach and gm without any money to spend.
 
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