{"id":50094,"date":"2025-05-14T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/50094\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:58:10","slug":"jordan-poyer-says-dolphins-simply-werent-very-good-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/50094\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Poyer says Dolphins simply &#8216;weren&#8217;t very good&#8217; in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Dolphins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Dolphins<\/a> safety Jordan Poyer didn&#8217;t have the best time during his one season with the team. The one-time All-Pro recorded zero sacks, zero forced fumbles, and zero interceptions in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year was an extremely tough year on so many levels,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FinsXtra\/status\/1922713259171279132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Poyer said Wednesday morning on NFL Network&#039;s Good Morning Football;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Poyer said Wednesday morning on NFL Network&#8217;s Good Morning Football<\/a>. &#8220;Our team wasn\u2019t very good, I didn\u2019t play as well as I wanted to play. It was just a really tough year transitioning from Buffalo to Miami &#8212; cultures being different, systems being different. It just didn&#8217;t work out the way anyone had hoped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Poyer, 34, spent the prior seven seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> where he was an All-Pro in 2021 and a Pro Bowler in 2022. He was released by the Bills to save cap space following the 2023 season and signed with the Dolphins on a one-year, $2 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the season, defensive coordinator <a href=\"https:\/\/dolphinswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/dolphins\/2024\/11\/21\/jordan-poyer-dolphins-mike-mcdaniel-anthony-weaver\/76481958007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anthony Weaver praised Poyer for getting Dolphins players in the right positions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Anthony Weaver praised Poyer for getting Dolphins players in the right positions<\/a> and told reporters that the safety &#8220;has graduate level honors&#8221; when it comes to the cerebral part of the game. However, the team opted against re-signing Poyer this offseason and decided instead to add free agents Ifeatu Melifonwu and Ashtyn Davis, along with fifth-round draft pick Dante Trader Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rachel__Bush\/status\/1876741660266172489\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Poyer&#039;s wife wrote on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Poyer&#8217;s wife wrote on social media<\/a> that the Dolphins don&#8217;t have enough players who &#8220;take their jobs seriously&#8221; and implied that immaturity was &#8220;like a plague&#8221; for the team.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Dolphins Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/dolphinswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/dolphins\/2025\/05\/14\/jordan-poyer-dolphins-werent-good-extremely-tough\/83627108007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jordan Poyer says Dolphins simply &#039;weren&#039;t very good&#039; in 2024;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jordan Poyer says Dolphins simply &#8216;weren&#8217;t very good&#8217; in 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Miami Dolphins safety Jordan Poyer didn&#8217;t have the best time during his one season with the team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2049],"tags":[17003,214,53,217,7,308,3921,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-50094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-ashtyn-davis","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-dolphins","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-ifeatu-melifonwu","14":"tag-jordan-poyer","15":"tag-miami","16":"tag-miami-dolphins","17":"tag-miamidolphins","18":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114507724089194732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}