{"id":75897,"date":"2025-05-24T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/75897\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:13:13","slug":"miami-dolphins-offensive-coordinator-frank-smith-right-now-were-starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/75897\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator Frank Smith: \u2018Right now we\u2019re starting over\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Dolphins<\/a> continue to work their way through the offseason training program, with organized team activities starting next week. On Wednesday, the team gave the media a chance to speak with the coordinators, including offensive coordinator Frank Smith. As the team looks to prepare for 2025, Smith discussed putting 2024 behind them and how they can be a better offense this year.<\/p>\n

A year after leading the league as the top offensive unit, Miami finished 18th in total offense in 2024. They were 15th in passing offense, 21st in rushing offense, and 22nd in scoring offense. The Dolphins dropped from 29.2 points per game in 2023 to just 20.3 in 2024.<\/p>\n

I think for us right now we\u2019re starting over and basically going back to the basics and making sure we know them inside and out to start a good season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the result of the season was disappointing for where we wanted to go,\u201d Smith said of analyzing the offensive performance in 2024. \u201cThere\u2019s positives littered throughout, but I think ultimately when you look at the past you really study it, look at it and use as far as each present day as your motivation. I think for us right now we\u2019re starting over and basically going back to the basics and making sure we know them inside and out to start a good season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s potent offensive attack in 2023 was built on timing patterns in the passing game, with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa anticipating the moves wide receiver Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle would make as they ran their routes. The Dolphins were able to get the ball into the hands of their top offensive weapons throughout the 2023 season, but struggled with timing, precision, and route running. <\/p>\n

\"Las<\/p>\n

Photo by Megan Briggs\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Smith was asked about the route running struggles in 2024, and how he thinks the team can improve it in 2025. \u201cI think ultimately as we had guys coming in and out of the lineup, I think that this year we\u2019re looking to make sure we can maintain the consistency, similar things we did in 2023,\u201d he replied. \u201cUltimately for us it\u2019s making sure we get the continuity with the guys, for everyone being on the same page with our expectations for fundamentals and techniques so that way we can really use the offseason to build to get ourselves ready for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

How is the team progressing in their reset for this upcoming season? \u201cI would say right now it\u2019s going great,\u201d Smith stated. \u201cGuys are really investing the time and using all of the resources they have. So far we are real pleased and we are looking forward to finishing this week and getting into OTAs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith also looks to the offseason to provide a chance to work on rotations and use depth players. \u201cIn the offseason it\u2019s kind of realistic to how the season will go because each week there are variables with the personnel,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo it allows guys to do things and expand what they in season maybe wouldn\u2019t get as many reps at so they can bank it now and use it later through training camp and all that. That\u2019s what the offseason allows us, is to work variables with different guys and see whatever we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Miami<\/p>\n

Photo by Jason Miller\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hill was a focal point of the media\u2019s discussion with Smith, in part because Hill was not as much a focal point of the offense in 2024. The coach explained, \u201cI think it\u2019s a guy who is extremely motivated to get better each day and to be a positive impact on the offense and team. He\u2019s got energy every day, he\u2019s working through his process. He\u2019s been great so far through the offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2024 season ended with Hill seeming to express a desire to leave Miami, though those comments have been walked back throughout the offseason. Asked if Hill has shown he wants to continue to play for the Dolphins, Smith answered, \u201cYeah, and I think so far our buy-in with the guys and everyone collectively and trying to use the way last season went as our motivation to make sure we maximize each day. You don\u2019t look forward, you don\u2019t look to the past; just say, what do I need to get done right now, and I think Tyreek and all of the guys are really embracing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The receiver, however, is recovering from offseason surgery to repair a wrist injury, a repair that included inserting screws into this wrist in February and a second procedure earlier this month to remove them. \u201cI don\u2019t know if there are really timelines to everything,\u201d Smith said of when Hill might get back on the practice field. \u201cWe just basically are making sure that we get everything one day at a time, maximize it, so when he\u2019s ready to go, he\u2019s ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miami added wide receiver Nik Westbrook-Ikhine in free agency this year, signing a third option to play behind Hill and Waddle. Of his initial impression of Westbrook-Ikhine, Smith stated, \u201cI think ultimately it goes to who he is as a man, and you can see it\u2019s a very detailed, very process-oriented guy. He\u2019s going to be extremely reliable. I think ultimately if you talk to the guys that knew him in Tennessee and our exposure so far has been consistent work ethic. I think that\u2019s ultimately where he puts himself in position to be successful is because he really is a student of the process, making sure he\u2019s on the little things so, therefore, on Sundays he can be reliable for the quarterback and really the rest of the offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think that ultimately what we need to be is more consistent.<\/p>\n

Smith ended his media availability discussing if the Miami offense needs to be more physical than they were in 2024. He explained, \u201cI think that ultimately what we need to be is more consistent. That\u2019s the thing we\u2019re shooting for, is consistency. That\u2019s what this time of year provides, is for us to use the time to get connected on the same page so that way our expectations through the entire play intent is then maximized through just logging in daily opportunities to make sure for the season we\u2019re all connected on the same page and being consistent.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins continue to work their way through the offseason training program, with organized team activities starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[7811,217,7,3856,29,216,251,2733,13765,2087,6,907,1127,4324,2732,9190,3382,2383,1937,24,2125],"class_list":{"0":"post-75897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-coordinator","9":"tag-dolphins","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-frank","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-dolphins","15":"tag-miami-dolphins-news","16":"tag-miami-dolphins-training-camp","17":"tag-miamidolphins","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-now","20":"tag-offensive","21":"tag-over","22":"tag-phinsider","23":"tag-re","24":"tag-right","25":"tag-smith","26":"tag-starting","27":"tag-the","28":"tag-we"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114563934072116320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75897","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=75897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}