Miami Dolphins 2025 Expectations!

Miami Dolphins 2025 Expectations!

Switching it up. I told you guys we were going to talk about the expectation of two of this day on this day today. But in actuality, I want to talk about the team first. [Music] What is up Finn fans? Fun fact, today at 10:00 we are going to see and it’s going to be revealed what the rivalry jerseys are that the Miami Dolphins are going to be wearing. Now, I’m going to talk about this real quick. 10:00 today, they will be wearing these jerseys on week four, Monday night against the Jets. They were leaked somewhat. Now, these look like they’re them. So, if they are, cool. Love them. Fantastic. Uh, we’ll get the official again later today at 10:00, but apparently this is what they will be looking like, a little bit of this. You got you got one more you can look at. Again, if you’re listening to the podcast, go over to the channel. You could see what everyone’s looking at. This is supposedly what they’re going to be looking like. What do you guys think? Now, when they officially come out, I am going to make a short and a Tik Tok. If you don’t know, I have a Tik Tok. Go follow me on Tik Tok. Help me grow my Tik Tok game. Uh but yeah, this is what they’re going to be looking like. I Some are telling me that this is a dark uh navy, some think it’s black. Regardless, I think they’re beautiful. I like the uh shade on the uh Aqua. I like them. But we’ll see. 10:00 they will officially be re releasing them and we will uh I will make a short and react to them. And again, go follow me on Tik Tok. Also, go follow my podcast. Uh but yeah, so let’s talk about the Miami Dolphins as a team and what my expectation is going into 2025. Now, I’m not giving you a record prediction. I’m not telling you the optimistic and pessimistic reason for 2025. And I’m not talking about Tua. That is all going to be in other videos in the next coming days. We’re going to talk about stats, how they did last year, and kind of look at how they did retrospect in 2023, what happened last year, uh, and what we should expect this year, good, bad, and different. And again, I’m not going to say they’re going to go this because blah blah blah. No, that will be out Tuesday. I’m thinking Tuesday. I’m going to put my record prediction video out. Sorry, I have a itchy leg. I got mosquito bites. Um, but we’re going to talk about this, right? So, when it comes to statistics and the Miami offense, last year offense was not great. They were 22nd in points, 18th in yards, uh 17th in turnovers. That needs to be a little bit better. They were 13th in first downs. Not bad. A little bit above normal. They were eighth in attempted passes, which mean they attempted a lot of passes, 15th in passing yards. They were 19th in attempted rushes, but they were 21st in rushing, which wasn’t good. Then you look at the defensive side, you got points, they were 10th yards, they were fourth, 27th in turnovers. I will talk about that. Uh, fifth in first downs, which is nice. Uh, ninth in passing yards, ninth in rushing, right? Fifth in uh, rushing attempts they’ve seen, 21st in passing attempts they’ve seen, which is a nice little retrospect on that shebang. When it came to third down on offense, they were 25th ranked, but on defense they were sixth ranked, which is good. Fourth down, they were 25th ranked again, but on defense, sixth ranked. And in the red zone, they were 16th ranked, and on defense, they were fourth. So, a pretty sound defense last year. And at times, you know, our defense, our secondary was injured, whether at some point Kater um not Kater. No, yeah, Kater. But, uh, Storm Duck was one of our starters. Ethan Bonner had to come in at some point. Um, I apologize. I cleared my throat. I’m going to be clearing my throat a good amount because I’m still sick. Um, but yeah, so that is kind of your statistics. And then when you kind of look at 2023 in retrospect of last year, 2023 was a well-rounded team. The defense wasn’t great, right? We were number two passing, number one in yards. I will say this though, a lot of those started to fall off as the year went on in 2023 because that Tennessee Titan game took a toll on us physically. Uh, a lot of people talk about that Tennessee Titan game. Obviously, it’s it’s a big thorn in our sides because we win that game, we beat Dallas, we clinch the division, yada yada blah blah blah. Injuries, injuries, injuries, injuries is the theme for 2023 and 2024 in actuality because again, you look at 2024 and there were games that we could have won if we had a better quarterback at the helm. Seattle going in there. We had um Skyler who then gets hurt and then Tim Bole I think comes in Tennessee Titans. We had Snoop Huntley who barely had any grasp on the offense uh come in. Didn’t do great. Indianapolis Colts, we had fumbles and again Snoop Huntley is your quarterback. Uh those three games to me had a better quarterback play, we would have won them. Again, that’s my opinion. Some people would laugh at me. uh especially the Tennessee Titan game when you look at how that went down which again that’s where the the image of u Chris Greer kind of hiding uh halftime the score was 9-3 and if you’re telling me we didn’t have better quarterback play at halftime being 9 to3 and at one point they scored a touchdown because of something having to do with the kickoff and they got the ball on their own like on the Dolphins like five or something like that. But even going into the fourth quarter, it was 19 to6. You’re only down by two scores. Again, you can’t tell me that not having a better quarterback who understood the offense. We don’t win that Titans game. And especially because it was at home. Um, same thing with Seattle. I’ve talked about Seattle at Nauseium 13-7 in the first quarter. Then the Seattle Seahawks didn’t score a point for two and a half quarters. You’re telling me if we didn’t have a better quarterback play, moving the ball and doing more, we don’t win that game and make it close and then obviously you have the Colts game, right? So, a big factor in 2024 obviously has to do with the health of our quarterback Tua Tong Villa, which I will talk about probably will be tomorrow’s video, my expectations for Tua in 2025. But if we had Tua for at least however many of those games, you know, we ended the season what, eight and nine. Very easily could have been a nine- win team. Uh 10- win team. Just needed two more wins if two played the full season. And he missed a bunch of games. So, you know, that’s one lining factor. The other running the ball. Now, we have a run game coordinator as our head coach, right? and he for some reason loves to abandon the run, especially when it’s working. And we’ll get to that uh in a little bit. But there’s something I want to show you guys. And even this even was a thing in 2023. So last year we saw cover two, two high safeties 51.6% of the time. That was number one in the NFL. We saw a single high safety essentially putting more defenders in the box, essentially trying to stop mobile quarterbacks or to try to stop the run. 32nd 32nd in the NFL 44.8% of the time. You might be asking yourself, Doug, where are you getting these informations from? I’m getting it from ftnfantasy.com. I’ll show you real quick. This is where I where I get my information from when it comes to that stuff because you can go by uh coverage and tendencies and stuff like that. It’s a really cool site. Go check it out. Um so there’s that, right? And then in 2023, we had such crazy high powered passing offense. We saw more cover two. We saw it 57.9% of the time and we saw single high even less 38.2% 2% of the time. Yet, we were still had one of the best offenses for the first three quarters of the season. McDaniel bailing on the run and using it as the coverage as an excuse I don’t like. But what will help is if you run the ball because again, if you run the ball and force them to not be in cover two as much, then you really can open it up and get the ball down the field. So, kind that’s kind of the statistics of what we were looking at last year, right? Middle to bottom of the the NFL when it came to offense, top tier, top 10, top 11, however you want to splice it. Defense, even though we weren’t getting sacks, our sack production was Paul, hello, wasn’t great. It wasn’t. Um, I think we were like 27th in the NFL in sacks. We had 35 35 sacks. 32 31 30 29 28 27th 27th in the NFL in sacks. Uh, pressure percentage we were high 20s. Uh, hurry percentage, we were mid-tier when it came to hurry percentage, hurrying the quarterback. I would say probably 12th, 13th. Unfortunately, on this uh site, they don’t give me numbers and I don’t feel like standing here and counting it for you. So, I apologize. Uh, blitzing wise, we didn’t blitz much. Again, kind of the same as the hurry percentage. So definitely need to do more when it came to getting after the quarterback, sacking the quarterback. You know, you look at, hey, you know, we were 10th in points and fourth in yards and ninth in passing and ninth in rushing defense. This is all good. Yeah, but 27th in turnovers, 27th in sacks. That needs to be much better. Especially when you’re facing teams that have these mobile quarterbacks or you’re facing these teams that you need that extra down. You can’t tell me in Buffalo where we lost by three, being able to sack Josh Allen wouldn’t help. We lost by 61 yard field goal. And to me, that was like one of two of his best games. Chalk that up there with the Arizona Cardinals game and the Baltimore Ravens game and all these games in his career that, you know, people like to point out like he could play, he could play. Buffalo in Buffalo. You could even look at 2022 in Buffalo. Got to get after him. Got to get those sacks. pause on that. Uh, real quick, we’ll just talk about uh, leaders. And again, I’m not talking passing. Devon Chan was the leading rusher, 97 yards. He had six touchdowns, rushing touchdowns. That was also leading. Uh, when it comes to receiving, Tyreek Hill was one. Janu Smith was number two because they had to start incorporating him because our receivers were banged up and couldn’t really get open. And he led the the team in receiving yards with eight uh, touchdowns, sorry. Um, third was Devon with six. He also had 592 receiving yards which was fourth. Allpurpose the man had 1,400 and some odd yards. Crazy. Absolutely craziness. And then on defense, our sack leader was Zack Steeler, hence him getting the money he did. Uh Chop Robinson was second with six sacks and Kis Campbell with five. Uh total tackles, your leader was Jordan Brooks, who is still with us, thank God, and one of the leaders. Number two was actually Jordan Puyer, interesting enough. interceptions. Your leader was Terrell Datson with three interceptions. Then second was Jaylen Ramsay and then Kater Coo with uh tying with second. That’s not good. The fact that Zack Steeler had one interception and Jaylen Ramsey and Kater Kohou each had two. That’s not good. That’s not good at all. And that’s kind of it seems like where they’re going to be focusing on especially on defense this year with uh getting the ball turnovers because even Anthony Weaver came out and he’s like we got to get more turnovers. We got to really focus on getting after the ball and getting turnovers. So kind of let’s go into my expectations of the 2025 Miami Dolphins when it comes to an offense and defensive base. Um I need to see better out of McDaniel. Now, here’s the thing about this team, and I’m going to go into more detail on uh essentially like obviously I’m going to be picking the games for the record prediction and kind of this can’t happen, this can happen, yada yada, and especially when I go to being optimistic and pessimistic, but Mike McDaniel, and again, as much as people probably don’t want to believe this, Mike McDaniel, Tua, Tonga, Villaa, and Chris Greer, seats are on fire, right? and MC and Tua can only control a certain aspect of that unfortunately, but he is still under the biggest microscope you can find because the Dolphins can move off from him next year and save money. And 2026’s draft has very good quarterbacks. Like it is what it is. And if your head coach and your GM are gone, they’re going to want to bring in somebody who they’re going to pick, right? We can’t do what we did with McDaniel, right? McDaniel had one head coaching interview. It was the Dolphins because the Dolphins again narrowed their net saying you got to work with Tua and you have to keep Josh Ber and all these other head coaching candidates are like then I don’t want to work there. I want to go somewhere where I pick my assistants, my uh coordinators, and I want to be able to pick my quarterback. Now I think they probably would have gotten more candidates if they said you know we want to see if you can work with Tua but it’s not a deal breakaker essentially like come in see what you like of Tua and if you’re like no this isn’t going to work because of X Y and Z cool we’ll move on yada yada same thing with Porter but Ber not Puer but that’s not what happened when you got Mike McDaniel so Mike McDaniel’s seat is is pretty hot pretty hot four games. Four games. I I’m honestly thinking if he goes one and three, he might not make it to game five. I’m I’m being honest with you, especially because the the love fest I’m hearing about Anthony Weaver, not only from the assistant coaches, but from the players that I’m giving McDaniel four games. I’ll give him five, right? I’ll give him five games. Uh because if this team is floundering and I’m going to talk about some of those things, uh he’s probably fired. We have a late buy, so you know, they’re not going to wait till that especially because if the if the wheels keep falling off of this sucker, they’re going to start trading away uh talent. So he’s got that. So he needs to do better McDaniel when it comes to the play call time, especially with all these motions. Uh, I’m pretty sure, again, I’m going to fantasy FTN Fantasy. If I look up their motions and stuff when it comes to the offense, they’re probably like ridiculously high because we use that. Now, I get it to use it to um recognize man zone. Uh, the Dolphins are last year second. They were actually second in the NFL uh to LA. the Chargers. I’m assuming this is the Chargers. I’m assuming no, the Rams. They’re second to McVey and the Rams in motion percentage. Uh the Rams were 76.6. The Dolphins were 72.8. And last year, uh the It’s loading. Who was first? The Dolphins were first 77.2. And then the next was 64.4 was the 49ers. So, he he loves those motions, right? And it it does help getting, you know, you’re moving uh horizontally and then you allow Tyreek to get the speed and take off and all that stuff. It does help, but um you got to be able to allow your quarterbacks to read the defense and be able to recognize, okay, I’m starting to see as the ball’s about to be hiked, I’m starting to see the safety come down and okay, I might have this here. Oh, the linebackers are shifting. I see that corner starting to creep at the line. He might be blitzing. I want to call my coverage to go to that side. If you don’t give time for these things, it’s a problem. And Tua even called that out after the playoff game in Kansas City because there’s not enough time because you get the play call and you have to tell the play call, then you get to the line of scrimmage and then you have to be able to read the defense and then allow the time for the motion to happen. You got 40 seconds. It’s not a lot. 40 seconds is a lot. So, they need to do better with the play calling time, right? uh turnovers. I talked about that, especially on defense. 27th last year. Uh in 2023, they were eighth. Eighth. So, that turnover ratio needs to be better. And that’s something Anthony Weaver said he’s going to focus on. He’s going to work on. From what I saw against the Jaguars in joint practice, first play of the game was a sack by Sealer. And then we have Ma Fitzpatrick with an interception. Easily could have been a pick six. We had Jack Jones with an interception. And these were all on Trevor Lawrence. So, you know, if that’s a a forcoming that we’re seeing, I think we should be good with the turnover ratio. And, you know, I was going into training camp, I was very worried about this team when it came to certain aspects of the team. I’m not as worried anymore because again, we heard things like, um, oh, they’re going to focus on the pass rush and then the secondary will will benefit off the pass rush. And in my head I’m like that’ll only work for so far and so long because again this pass rush could be dynamic. You just have quick quick slants and all these other different plays like you know when we started zero blitzing with Brian Flores. All of a sudden that pass rush doesn’t get there in time. Guys are open. Especially if these corners don’t play well at at jamming or if they’re playing off because they’re afraid of getting beat deep. You just keep running slants and just get the ball out quick. get the ball out quick and then all a sudden his pass rush doesn’t get there. So, but after seeing training camp and after seeing how these guys are working and then in the addition of Matt Judon and the four that rotation and at one point against the Jaguars, yes, it was their backup. We saw Chub get a sack and like an instant sack and and not Chop got the sack and Chub and Phillips were on the the boundary. Like, it’s going to be crazy. So, there’s that. Making adjustments is something that Mike McDaniel needs to do, right? His halftime adjustments need to be a little bit better. Him sticking to certain aspects. Sticking to certain aspects and giving up on others, right? Like the like the bubble screens. I get it. But you are now with the bubble screen team, right? Everyone in their mother, oh, we’re playing Miami next week. Okay, let’s really focus on recognizing and sniffing out bubble screens. That’s what your opposing defense is going to be doing. They’re going to be focusing on not playing too far back as a corner to be able to rush if you take any sense or iota that this is going to be a bubble screen. And if you’re McDaniel and know that, feed off of that, right? Have a bubble screen, but also have a play on top of the bubble screen. have something. Have have a bubble screen to Tyreek, but then also have your tight end going down the seam. Something, right? or your running back going out, you know, have something cuz they started to in incorporate that a little bit last year, especially with the screens to Devon Achan where instead of going out towards the sideline, he kind of went more in and the blockers took the the um the outside blocking away and he cut it in. start to make adjustments, but on the fly. It seems like that’s where he struggles with adjustments on the fly, especially with running the ball. There’s been times where we were doing really well running the ball and he stopped running the ball and his excuse was, “Oh, well, I started noticing that they were playing single high safety or I started noticing, you know, they were doing this.” My man, statistically, no. How about that? Statistically, no. Like I said, 30 uh 2023 32nd ranked in the NFL. 38.2% of the time you saw single high safety. Last year you saw single high safety even more. 44.8% of the time. Still dead last. You were seeing cover two, cover two out the butt. Run the ball and stick with it. Especially if you’re getting the yardage and the chunk plays. What game was it? the flip-flopping in the Flim Flame Chiefs game where we had Tyreek Hill drop a potential touchdown. Tyreek Hill fumbled the ball, then Jaylen Wadd drops a pass. Obviously, two of misses a wideopen touchdown. But to take all that and put it aside, right, let’s just take all that and put it aside. Two runs from Raheem Oster got us down to the 31 and we threw it four times. Why? And that’s what I’m talking about. Don’t abandon that just because you think, “Oh, they’re expecting it.” Cool. They were expecting us to run the ball against the Dallas Cowboys and we still got the first down. They were expecting us to run the ball of the week one against the Jaguars and we still got the first down. Run the ball. Trust your guys. Put that ump behind them at least two times and then it’s third and whatever and do what you got to do. But it’s like those are the things that lost that game. And people like to focus on Tua and saying, “Well, Tua couldn’t beat the the Chiefs.” Yeah, I will agree with the pass that could have been a touchdown to Cedric Wilson 100%. And then the botch snap that’s I think is between the the center and Tua. Yeah, those two plays definitely lost the game for us, but Tua wasn’t the reason we lost the game. And I gave you the other reasons. He You know what I’m saying? So Mike McDaniel needs to make adjustments, but he also needs to stick to what’s working and abandon what’s not because especially if yeah, the defensive co the head coach of the Texans knows you. But if he knows you, don’t do it. Especially if he’s going to say, “Oh, there’s a bubble screen to Janu.” And then they stop it. You got to work on that. We only lost that game by eight points. Like come on. challenges. Third, three out of 12. Mike McDaniel, three out of 12 challenges he wins. Got to do better than that, my man. And like the challenges are bad and the timeout uh wastes are bad and all that is just bad, bad, bad. But looking at 2025, it’s such an enigma of a year in all honesty. like 2023 going into that you were looking at the team and you’re like, “Wow, look at the players we got. Look at the offensive line and the defense and this team’s going to be good.” Then going into 2024, you’re like, “Hey, you know, if it wasn’t for injuries, we could have been good.” And we just added some, you know, stout de uh, you know, veteran defense. We could do something here. Now we’re sitting in 2025 like I have no idea. Secondary is a big fat question mark outside of um Mika Fitzpatrick. You know what is what was what what Rul Douglas are we going to get? How is everyone else going to play? You know, obviously I’m going to talk about Tua tomorrow. How’s the run game going to look? How’s this offensive line going to look? Are they going to work well together? Is James Daniels going to look good? Is Austin Jackson going to look good? These guys haven’t played football in a very long time. Aaron Brewer, how’s the rookie going to look? How is Patrick? Like there’s so many question marks with this team. But my expectation is especially for a head coach that’s job is on the line. You got to beat the it goes back to 2023 where we got crap for only beating losing teams. You got to beat teams you’re supposed to. Like I don’t understand why people were so upset about that, right? You got to 11 wins because you took care of business. You got to take care of business. Now, there was one business you didn’t take care of and look what happened. Got to take care of business. So, to me, my expectation for 2025 is all or nothing, right? This is it. This is it in my opinion for Greer, for McDaniel. So, my expectation is you better get to the playoffs. You better win or this thing’s getting burned down. Now, do I expect now am I saying that’s going to happen? Not necessarily. But that’s what I’m expecting. You see what I’m saying? Like I’m not predicting it, but I’m expecting it because if not, you’re gone. And we will see. Again, I I normally don’t freak out about these things until about week five. And that’s I think that’s when uh the Titans game was last year. I think it was week five. Let me uh No, week four. So, yeah, week four, week five is when I’m like, we got problems. started 1 and0, beat Jacksonville, had that great fumble from Javon Holland, then lost three straight. That happens again this year. I don’t think McDaniel makes it to week five. I’m being honest with you. This is my opinion, but I’m being honest with you. We beat the um Indianapolis Colts, but then we lose to the Jets, the Bills, and the Patriots, and we’re 0 and3 in the division. I think Mike’s fired. So, that’s my expectation of this team in 2025. more turnovers on defense, more pressure, more sacks on defense. Uh, I need to see consistency from the run game. McDaniel needs to be more um hands-on, but also he needs to be better at making adjustments. Abandon what’s not working. Stick with what is working. And you got to take care of business. You got to take care of business. You got to stay healthy. Every year it’s health, health, health, health. 2023 hot. Started off what? 10 and three. We were like pretty much number one seed, 10 and four. We started nine and three, then lost to the Titans. So nine and three at that point, we were vying for the number one seed. Then we go into Baltimore 11 and four. The winner of that game was getting the number one seed and whoever the quarterback of the team that won was getting the MVP. And you can’t you can laugh all you want to was third going into that game when it came to betting. Health, health, health. We went into that game limping and then we went into the Bills game crawling and then we went into the Chiefs game just slugging it just slugging it on the ground just health. Same thing last year Toron started getting hurt. Austin Jackson goes down with an injury. You know we had C uh Carman as our right tackle at one point. Tua gets hurt. Uh Tyreek Hills playing with two bad wrists. You know Raheem Moer gets hurt at some point. He’s fumbling. You know, it was just bang bang bang. But here’s the thing. No one’s expecting Miami to do anything this year. A lot of people expected Miami to do something last year. And a lot of times when we are expected to do something, we fall on our face. 2008, no one expected anything. We won the division. 2009, okay, they won the division. They need to do something. We sucked. 2016, no one expected us to do anything. We went to the playoffs. 2017, we sucked. 2023, no one, you know, oh, they’ll probably be a wild card team, yada yada blah blah blah. We started redhot. Made the playoffs. 2024, hey, this team’s good. Number one offense, this, this, and that. I think they’re going to win the division. Bills have nothing. D sucked. Let’s see what they do. Expectations are low. Incredibly low. But to save your jobs, you need to make the playoffs. I expect them to make the playoffs. Will they? We’ll see. I will see you tomorrow. We’re going to talk to Tonga Villoa and what I expect out of him to stay with the Miami Dolphins. Uh comment below. Let me know what you guys think. Um like I said, I’m going to make a short talking about the rivalry jerseys later today in probably like a couple hours or maybe at like 1:00 or whatever. Um but yeah, what’s your expectations of this team? What do you want to see from the offense, from the defense, from Mike McDaniel? all that stuff and we will talk quarterbacks tomorrow. But like usual, stay classy.

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