Are The Miami Dolphins The NFL’s Biggest Puzzle?!

Are The Miami Dolphins The NFL’s Biggest Puzzle?!

Are the Miami Dolphins the most puzzling team of 2025? Will Albert Brerier and Connor our talk about it and I’m going to react to it. So, let’s see. Do I agree? Are we that puzzling? [Music] What is up, Finn fans? How y’all doing? How y’all doing on this Wednesday? Hump day. We’re almost there. training camp literally starts a week from today. They will be on the field and then open to the public a week from Saturday. So, we are getting there. Quick little announcements. First one about the merch. You guys have It’s not a lot for normal people, but for me who doesn’t push merch, who doesn’t sell merch, and if you’re wondering what I’m talking about, I’m talking about this. You guys have been killing it. I think I’ve s uh what I’m looking at is seven shirts have been uh five shirts have been sold. two of the original design have been sold. I appreciate the heck out of every single one of you. You don’t have to buy any of my stuff. And the fact that you are and you’re representing and you’re wearing it means the world to me. Thank you so much. And to the people who did go out and grab some, please, if you would like, send me a picture of you wearing it. I would love love love to shout you out for being awesome awesome human beings. Link is in the description if you want to grab yourself a shirt or a hoodie, stickers, all that stuff. It is made in the USA. I know one of you guys asked me about that. Uh the other thing Jonah no contract updates on Savanayiah Sav I had it Savinia. I’m It’s late. I’m tired. No contract updates on him, meaning he cannot be at the facility until he signs a contract. So, no, he’s not there yet. And if you noticed, the Miami Dolphins didn’t put out their little video of guys walking in the building. And maybe that’s because Jonah isn’t there. So, as of right now, there’s still 30 of the 32 uh second round picks that have not signed. One last update. I need a haircut. Anyway, so yeah, uh I found I came across this video about a month ago and it’s from Sports Illustrated. So, I will not be showing the video because the pics video from Adam Rank, uh, I got copyright claims, so I had to clip out a bunch of it. So, if you go back and watch, it probably looks all a hot mess. But, they came out, it’s Connor or and Albert Brerier came out with a video saying the Dolphins are the NFL’s most puzzling team. It’s about a 12minute video. We’re going to react to it, going to listen to it, talk about it. And then also, when was this? July 12th, which was a couple days ago, maybe about four or five days ago. They came out with another video kind of talking about the state of the Dolphins going into the season and it’s only a two-minute video. So, we’re going to listen to these things. We’re going to react to them. Um, I got we’re getting there. Again, this was a month ago. I’ve had this planned, but I had other content popping up, the trades popping up. Uh, I still kind of want to do the film breakdown of Zack Wilson, see what we possibly could have as a backup quarterback. There’s some other videos I want to talk about. And then like I said, next week the vets report. So we got a lot to talk about. Let’s just jump into this in in the NFL at this point because I don’t know what the what the plan is. I I I would guess uh our boss Peter King used to always say this. If you’re going to if we can give if we can give Mike McDaniel sodium penithol and ask him this question, right? But I is this really who he wants at quarterback going sodium penol I’m assuming is like truth serum. That’s what I’m assuming into the season and I’m sick of the vitriol that comes from people asking this question. It’s a legitimate question and you know you’re still not making any meaningful upgrades to this scheme that I and and and I think that Mike McDaniel is probably the most brilliant here’s one of the most brilliant play callers in the NFL. But there’s no meaningful difference to your offense year in and year out and it just keeps breaking down. I’m gonna ask you. I’m gonna ask you a point going real quick just going off of what he said, right? I think Mike McDaniel would like Tua and I think Mike McDaniel’s answer would be Tua going into the season because we’ve seen how well Tua can execute Mike McDaniel’s offense. To his other point, I agree 100%. You look at the additions and what we did with this offense, you know, we added James Daniels, which I’m happy about, and we brought in Jonah. That’s it. You know, Westbrook, yeah, but tight end, like there hasn’t really been much of a let’s make this move to make this offense better. We didn’t go out and get a top-notch guard. We didn’t go and do, you know, so I could see where Conor’s coming from in that aspect. pointed question that I think will tell you a lot about your own feelings on the team. If someone comes and offers a first round pick for Tyreek Hill, do you do you trade him? Yes. Yes. And I think that tells you everything about where that team is. Yeah. Right. Like I just think I I feel like they’ve gotten to the point now where it’s just I I I think we know what they are with this core of players and I think they’ve subtly started to tell us, you know, in peeling off some pieces, you know, that they need to reset and it’s time for them to kind of rebuild in some areas. I I think we all assume Jaylen Ramsey probably won’t be on the team in September. Again, this was a month ago. He’s with the Steelers. Um, you know, obviously Jaylen Phillips has been hurt. Jaylen Ramsey certainly assuming it he’s already said goodbye to the franchise. A tough move, you know. Yeah. I mean, where are you at with Bradley Chub, you know? I think obviously like Chop Robinson is the future with the edge guys. They’ve invested a lot in those positions and and the older two guys have been really beat up. Um Terron Armstead is gone and you’re you know you’re rolling the dice with a secondyear second round pick and Patrick Paul that position. And I it’s I like that this this feels like they’re subtly maybe even not so subtly like resetting. And so like I I think for them like with me the Dolphins fans aren’t going to like to hear this, but for me like I I think like feeling good about this team is almost almost doesn’t tie to wins and losses. It almost ties more to how do you feel about the young players on your team as a group to build around? And so it’s like I look at the guys that will be there in two years. Like I think this is usually the and that’s where I think a lot of again this is a month ago but I I don’t think a lot of the things that they’re bringing up and talking about really has changed in a month. This could be a situation where Steven Ross, again, the thing that we’ve heard and said time and time again is that the bank is closed, right? If you want to get more cap space, you have to figure out how to get more cap space. And it seems like it’s a situation where Greer and McDaniel have to figure out how to build a team, how to build a team that will I in their eyes get them to the playoffs and be competitive because it seems to me and which is so dumb. Again, this is just so dumb to me. And this is again, if Stephen Ross ever watches my stuff, I mean no disrespect, but it’s such a Stephen Ross thing to do, and that is give another year. And it seems like that’s what Steven Ross is doing. And Greer and McDaniel, you got one more year. I’m not helping you with money. You need to figure it out. And you need to prove to me that you should keep your jobs because if not, you’re gone and I’m resetting. That’s what it seems like to me because but if that’s the case, you’re kind of tying one hand behind their back and they’re going to be gone. So, you might as well just made the decision from the first place. I don’t know the way you want to think about it when a team’s in the spot. It’s like how many of these players are going to be there in 2027? Dylan Wadd, Chop Robinson, and Kenneth Grant, their first round picks this year, so you assume he’s going to be there. How many other guys do you look at on that team and you say, “Yeah, like that guy’s going to be there in two years.” I think if if I’m a Dolphins fan and and I so just so everyone knows, I do read the comments on our YouTube channel and uh I’m not going to say the verb that Albert and I are accused of doing to Mike McDaniel. I’m not going to say it. It’s gross. I love Mike McDaniel. I think he’s one of the I think he’s a really really good head coach. I do too. No, I’m not gonna like is there no addendum to that? I think he’s a really good head coach. Period. So, if you’re making um I like Mike McDaniel, but I disagree that he’s a really good head coach. There’s still a lot he needs to learn. So, to say that he’s a really good head coach, I think he’s a good head coach. I think if he can fix some situations and get him, you look at the coaches in the NFL that are really good head coaches. You look, you know, like Mike Shanahan is a really good head coach. He’s been to the Super Bowl. Obviously, he’s not one of the best, but he’s been to the Super Bowl. I would even put um the Lions head coach as a really good head coach. Um those types of coaches are really good head coaches. Even you know you look at some of these teams that overachieved right now you could say so like with Mike McDaniel a lot of times you know his win and loss record against 500 teams is not good. I can’t equate him to a really good head coach. That’s just my thoughts. This us against McDaniel. You’re probably barking up the wrong tree. No no no. We’re accused of being too pro McDaniel to the point where by Dolphins fans by Dolphins fans to the point that we’re um maybe not Dolphins fans, but maybe just people on YouTube. We’re under we’re underrating the roster. I don’t know. But whatever it is, we’re accused of uh doing something to Mike McDaniel via the YouTube comments that I wouldn’t do, but I’m just saying I I’m not going to do I see what you’re saying. You know what I’m saying? Um, and so, uh, if if if this is your belief, then maybe best to skip ahead for five minutes. But if I’m a Dolphins fan, I come out of this year happy if because again, Mike McDaniel’s extended through the 28th season and either Chris Greer has a come to Jesus moment here or McDaniel gets to pick someone who’s going to be more of a funnel to the kind of personnel that he likes on the roster. And that includes the quarterback position. Like I think that McDaniel needs his own John Lynch in this scenario, right? And he kind of needs everybody rowing in the same direction in in a personnel sense for that. Yeah. I I I think it’s I I think it’s you have to evaluate all of that. You have to eval here. So here’s my thing with that. Um, for one, Greer is not the type of GM that’s going to necessarily push back on some moves that the head coach wants to make. Greer is most likely, and from what we heard time and time again, is a type of GM that is going to do what the head coach wants. So, I don’t know if I necessarily agree with Connor with the the idea that, you know, they need to get a guy that McDaniel um like McDaniel’s under contract for however long. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter at all. Tony Spirano got a contract extension, got fired that same year. Your contract means nothing, especially to a billionaire. It means nothing. Um, but to add, I I’m against having a head coach bring in a GM. I’m more of a guy who you get a GM and then they find their head coach that fits what they want to do, that has their same mentality. Because again, Chris Greer is not the guy who the only from stories I heard from inside the building and from beat riders and from people that were in the war room, the only time I heard Chris Greer push back on a move was the Mika Fitzpatrick tra uh pick that they they they wanted to go in a different direction. They wanted to go, you know, more quarterback this this and that. Gase wanted his guys. Uh and Mick Greer said, “No, we’re going Mika.” And they went Ma. So, you know, to say that you McDaniel should find a guy that will funnel his vision. It’s not he Greer got him Tyreek Hill. Like the reason McDaniel was brought to the Dolphins was to help Tua. Now, let’s not say he didn’t because Tua is better, but Tua can’t stay healthy and that’s the biggest problem. valuate are we like in the time that McDaniel’s been here, are we putting enough players that fit what he wants on the roster and is the synergy where it needs to be? Yeah. Um, and is Chris Greer really serving the coaching staff that way? I think that’s a a fair and open question. That’s why there have been rumors about his own job security over the last couple of years. Let let me ask it this way, right? Okay. Yeah. Uh he has been uh he’s been the GM of this team nine years since 2016, right? 20 2016. Yep. Nine years. Okay. Yeah. But he really became the guy I think in 19. Wasn’t that what it was? Okay. So you can tan bomb was there. Tan was there. Right. Right. And then I think when Flores became the head coach, he became the top personnel guy. So that would have been 19 I believe. Okay. Since 19. Do you have an answer? Uh, do you have a long-term answer at your ankle or your anchor tackle position? No. The answer is no. Not right now. At least we don’t know. Do you have a long-term answer at number one corner? You’re about to trade him, so no. Do you have an identity? I guess kind of, you know, um, you do have a number one receiver who he drafted, Jaylen Wadd. long term. You do have a number one pass rusher. It looks like we’ll see. And Chop Robinson, yes. Is we’ll see, but it looks like that’s is trending that way. Um and feel secure at the at the quarterback position. And that’s the big question. And that they they just leaned into him and paid him. And um you know, I mean, I was there the night that that that Tua had the concussion. And it’s hard for me to look at it any other way than like this thing still seems tenuous like and where they are and where they’re going forward. And you know, like I’ve said, especially with this season because regardless if you want Tua gone or not, regardless if you’re not a fan of Tua and whatever you want to say, he is the quarterback for 2025 con contractually and whatever else you want to say, he is the quarterback 2025. You have no choice over the matter. Point blank. Period. None at all. Going forward in the future. That’s where things can get interesting. The fact that they have yet to pick up or make that move to clear up 19.5 or 19.1 million in cap space. The Miami Dolphins like that can get $19 million in cap space. That’s a lot of money to do a lot of things. At any point in free agency, after the draft, this that they could have very easily got $19 million in cap space. But by doing that, it would have locked Tua in indefinitely for 2026 and possibly, you know, added more money on the back end. The Dolphins have not done that. The Dolphins will not do it because they haven’t done it yet. And at this point, there’s no point in doing it. means that 2026 is a big fat question mark. And like I’ve said, me personally, if Tua gets injured again this season, I’m done. We got to move on from him. And it had and and at that point, it has nothing to do with his play on the field. It has nothing to do with his passing. This is it has everything to do with availability. Best ability is your availability. And if Tua cannot play the full 2025 season, there is no point in having him go any further. Regardless of his play style, regardless if when he was on the field, the man was lights out. He beat Buffalo by 23 points and all this great stuff, but at the end of the day, he missed seven games in 2025. You can’t that doesn’t that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. You got to move on. I’m sorry. And you might laugh at me and say, “That’s ridiculous. If you played that great, why would you?” because there’s that big fat question mark, hey, we need him. We’ll lose those seven games. You got to be able to have your starting quarterback on the field. It just is what it is. Like what that contract says, like I I still I’m still not sure. I mean, I I don’t know. Like you put Zack Wilson on that roster and I know Zach had a really good year in Denver last year. um quietly, you know, like behind the scenes they really liked him and obviously they’ve got their quarterback of the future, but I think the people in Denver would tell you like there’s some hope for Zach Wilson. That’s a guy who is talented enough to be the second pick in the draft, you know? Yeah. And again, that might that could also be the Jets being dumb as hell because I’m not going to sit here and toot my own horn and say I knew better, blah blah blah. But I said coming out of college, Zack Wilson played behind the best offensive line in the country. He’s going to struggle when he’s not behind an at least average line, and he did. that doesn’t necessarily mean he was warranted of that second overall pick. That is just the Jets needing a quarterback and taking one. So, like I’m not saying Zach Wilson’s going to go through some sort of career renaissance, but man, I hope so. If, god forbid, when you line when you line the guys up in training camp, like Tua might not be the most talented guy, you know what I mean? Like that’s where I’m going to push back again. You know, Tua has his faults. Tua has, you know, the health problems and Tua has the uh, you know, kind of crumbles in certain situations, but to say that he’s not better than Zach Wilson or Quinn Yurs, I think even some of the biggest two haters are going to have to disagree with that. So, that part of it I think is really interesting, too. Um, you know, is are they looking for an escape hatch? because instead of adding I mean and I think like you can sometimes kind of go on these things and look at it and say all right like what does this acquisition say to me and they could have put someone in that room with Tua as like a resource to him like the Josh Macauen type and I don’t know who that would have been but they could have found somebody to put in that room case you know right um like Case Kum to me is uh like like he’s the guy who you look at and like yeah like you put them in the room and then you’re giving your young quarterback a chance to continue to study and to work with your guys um you know even off hours you know what I mean like can you f like and instead of doing that they put a guy who’s trying to save his career who’s really talented because they have no faith they I don’t know I look at little things like that and I think that’s at least that’s at least very interesting to me you know it’s hard because if you’re like if we’re if were there. And again, okay, so they have let’s see what the high pick on the offensive line does from 2024. Uh, you know, you have Patrick Paul like let’s let’s give him a little bit of room. You have a right guard that you took in the second round of the 25 draft. You clearly are trying to get more physical. You know, you take Kenneth Grant in the first round here and Jordan Phillips. Is that enough? Right. Is that enough to at least get you to the point where because again I I you know Dolphins fans were frustrated about nine and eight nine and eight nine and eight eight and n I would take nine and eight in a heartbeat for this team this year. I mean that would represent a resounding see but here’s the thing and this is where we might miss out on it right because there might be some Dolphin fans that you know we take nine and eight we we skirt in or hey we got another winning record. I don’t care about winning records. What I care about is winning playoff games. And you went from 10 and three possibly going into Baltimore, and this is going to make people laugh, and I fully expect it to make people laugh, but you’re going into Baltimore fighting for the number one seed. Your quarterback, and I’m not joking there. It I will, if you don’t believe me, comment below and I will send you the link of the stats. The quarterback, you know, I’ll pop it up. I’ll pop it up. The quarterback was third in the MVP race behind Lamar Jackson and CMC was two a tongue going into that the second to last game in Baltimore. We were there, right? Yeah, we had the loss of Titans, but we still beat this the Cowboys and we needed to beat the Ravens. We beat the Ravens two possibly goes higher in the MVP race. You laugh all you want, but it’s true. And we could possibly have gotten the number one seed. We would have locked in the AFC East. We were like playing ridiculous even as injured as we were to eight and nine. Boom. We just fall flat on our face. And I think that’s where me as a Dolphin fan anyway. It’s not good enough. We were we were high. Okay, we were going into that Titans game, we were hell going into the last 2 minutes and 30 seconds of that Titans game, we were uh we were in cloud 400, not even nine because we were possibly what 11 and three at that point and we just had to win one more game and we clinched the East and oh my goodness and we we could have by week and a da boom right on our faces in 2024. Success for me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s why I’m saying like I I don’t think I mean I you know I don’t think like looking at it and like their schedule is relatively manageable. I would say like you do have a chance to build up a little bit of momentum there. Um, but I I I it’s hard for me to look at this and not say, you know what, like I like just like looking at their depth chart and looking at where they’re at and looking at the players they’re offloading. I so much is going to come down to me to like how they feel about like their young core going forward and is there something there to build around coming out of the year because um their actions tell us this is a reset year for them and yeah and I agree with that point and I’ve talked to you guys about that a ton and most recently as well especially with the training camp questions is we it’s just this team is a big fat question mark and That’s why saying that they’re, you know, the a puzzle is not I agree. You know, I I don’t know what I titled the video, you know, is the Miami Dolphins or are the Miami Dolphins the biggest puzzle in 2025? Yeah, because there’s a lot of question marks on this team. And, you know, this team can go one of two ways. It can surprise a lot of people because again, you look at the schedule and everyone does this and then you know like I said last year that gauntlet at the end of the year they got the they got the 49ers, they got the Texans, they got the Packers, the Browns are going to be good. Come to the end of the year we lost to the Texans by eight points off of three dumb interceptions. We beat the 49ers. We beat the Browns. Like a lot can change. But let’s real quick, this is a two-minute video. So this is Albert Beer again talking Albert Beer and Connor talking about the Dolphins a little more. I think the Dolphins were honest with themselves quietly honest with themselves in another way where it’s like maybe we’re not getting there with this group, you know, and maybe we maybe now is the time to retool. And so Terron Armstead retires, which was a big deal. Replacing a left tackle is not easy. They’re going to have a second round pick from last year and Patrick Paul playing left tackle. Tyreek Hill had his least productive year in, you know, since he was a rookie. Jaylen Ramsay is now gone. Um, and they have the two edge rushers who can’t stay healthy and Bradley Chub and um, and uh, and Jaylen Phillips. So, what are they like? Where is the strength? By the way, isn’t Wouldn’t you rather have Minka though still back instead of Jaylen? I think Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I mean, I I I think having Minka back breaking down gives them stabilizes them a little bit and it’s very spec specific to what they are on defense with Anthony Weaver and like they’ve like in Baltimore when they re remade the defense under Wink, you know, and and and Weaver was there at the end of that like when they remade the defense under Wink, they really empowered the safety. So, they always they they’ve it’s been a priority to have a really smart safety. So, that was Eric Wed for a bunch of years. It was Kyle Ham. And that’s the thing that you hear Steeler fans say, Mika fell off the past few years, yada yada blah blah blah. But hearing again what Albert Ber saying and what Wink Mart Martinale did with the Ravens defense, you need to have that smart safety back there and the Dolphins added that and I guarantee you that was a Weaver move to go out and get yourself uh Mika back more recently. And so like Anthony Weaver gets that on defense with with Minka coming in. But is Minka the type of like over-the-top difference maker where he’s going to just change the fortune of the team? I don’t know. Not when it comes to, you know, and I I just like this is the question I’ve asked people on them. How many players are on that team right now are going to be there in two years? Yeah. He kind of goes into what we were talking about before. It’s again it’s it these are things that are big old question marks and again this is where I think what Stephen Ross is doing is it’s the last ditch effort from Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer because like what Albert Berer is saying there are guys um on there and we’ll look at it because you can make moves very easily next year and and things can very easily change. So let’s do this. So check this out. Right. So we are looking at uh is this the one I wanted to do? No. You know what? I think over over the cap was a little bit more indepth. No offense to spot track. I do like spot track. But so calculator. Yeah, this is what I wanted to do. 2026. Here we go. So, going off of what he said, right? Look at Tonga Aloa. Say we trade him uh before June 1st, right? Trade to a prejune 1st. You see that jump neg 24 million negative 24 million. You trade him, we’re up six, right? Tyreek Hill, you just cut him. You just cut him. Boom. We’re at 42 million. Right. Mika is on the team. Sealer, I don’t know what happens with Sealer. Bradley Chub, um, prejune 1st cut, boom, we’re at 50 million, right? Jordan Brooks, you know, Jaylen Wadd is a free agent. Uh, so he’s probably over here. Not Jaylen Wadd. Um, Bradley Chub. Nope. Doug, use your brain. Jaylen Phillips. He should be over. See, like Jonah’s not even signed yet, which is driving me nuts. Yeah, right here. Jaylen Phillips. But you look at that, right? Uh Jordan Brooks, that’s a possibly clean house. They’ll probably just move on from him, even though I don’t want to. That’s 5 million there. Aaron Brewer, you can move on from him. You save money. Uh Austin Jackson, you can move on from him. Probably do a post June 1st. Uh, they probably move on from Alec Ingold, Jason Sanders, Kenneth Grankchop, James Daniels, Terrell Dodson, Zack Wilson. Don’t matter there. It’s voided. But you see what I’m saying? So like what they they move on from five guys, right? You’re sitting at 58 million in cap space. And those are guys that you’re like, is there a future here? Even here, even Mika Fitzpatrick, which is crazy because we just traded for him. You get 17 million in savings. There’s no, you see what I’m saying? You’re at 75 million if you’re like, “Everything fell apart. We’re done. We’re going to clean house. We’re going to tear it down to the studs. Get rid of everything and build with Jaylen Wadd, build with Chop Robinson, build with Kenneth Grant, and all these young guys, Patrick Paul, Devon Achan, Jaylen Wright, Malik Washington. build with the young guys. That’s what’s going to happen. But we’ll see. Again, we’re going into training camp, so we get we’ll see. But right now, there’s a big fat question mark at corner and we’ll see what happens with the depth. But, uh, in a nutshell, yeah, this team’s a puzzle. We don’t know what this team really is. We don’t know the, you know, the identity of the defense. Is the offense the same speedster identity? What is the offensive line going to do? Is Tua going to stay healthy? There’s so many ifs. So, I’ll probably make a video talking about all the questions going into the 2025 season. I have a video talking about expectations of Tua, expectations of the offense and the defense. Why to be optimistic, why to be pessimistic. So, there’s a lot there’s a lot that I got to talk about obviously, but first we’re talking training camp. So, I will see you tomorrow. I think we’ll do the film breakdown tomorrow. Uh, hit that like button, subscribe if you haven’t yet, and like usual, stay classy.

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