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MIAMI GARDENS — The moment that foreshadowed this Miami Dolphins NFL Draft came in the final days of a cold November, in a locker room in Green Bay Wisconsin.
“Soft,” Dolphins linebacker Jordyn Brooks said of his team’s performance.
It’s a coincidence that five months later the 2025 NFL Draft was held in Green Bay.
It’s no coincidence that the Dolphins drafted a handful of tough, physical, mean bruisers maulers and street-fighters.
“A tonality of violence and aggression,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said during this draft, adding that he and general manager Chris Grier spoke “at length” about addressing the issue.
No more soft guys.
The Dolphins have attacked the soft perception head-on over the past few days.
Miami’s first three picks weigh a collective 975 pounds.
Yes, first-round defensive tackle Kenneth Grant is a monster.
“On the field, it’s no friends, to be honest,” Grant said in Miami Gardens.
Yes, second-round guard Jonah Savaiinaea is a beast.
“Punch guys,” Saviinaea said from Hawaii.
Yes, fifth-defensive tackler Jordan Phillips is a scrapper.
“Grit and willingness,” said Phillips, who is from the Orlando area.
Massive men headed to Miami Gardens to play for Dolphins
There are plenty of problems the Dolphins have to work through before the 2025 season kicks off.
What will they get for Jalen Ramsey when they trade him, presumably as early as June 2? Perhaps Miami can secure a young cornerback; perhaps even a rookie.
Who exactly are Miami’s starting cornerbacks?
At the moment it would appear to be Cam Smith, Storm Duck and Kader Kohou, though clearly Grier will sign at least one veteran capable of starting.
This team seems stuck between trying-to-contend-in-the-AFC and a soft-reset and a hard-rebuild. I’m not entirely sure what it is.
It seems Grier and the Dolphins are trying to thread a needle.
The average age of their roster will be younger.
Miami’s projected offensive line (in some order) is currently aged 23-21-27-27-25.
This is a young man’s game. At times last season, Miami looked old.
Miami Dolphins wants to get younger, tweak culture in 2025
McDaniel is highly focused on delivering messages about positive culture change.
He’s got Ramsey on the move and Tyreek Hill causing off-field headaches again.
He’s going to try to establish some discipline and commitment early in the offseason.
“Non-negotiably we’re going to be one team moving in one direction,” McDaniel said, during the draft, “and we’re going to earn everything we get.”
Print the T-Shirts now. “One Team, One Direction.”
Or don’t. What matters more than the shirts is that the message sinks in.
Miami’s overall roster figures to be on-par or close to on-par in talent to the 2024 version. But last year’s team finished 8-9 and missed the playoffs.
Some things have had to change. And one is this issue about size, strength, toughness, aggression and violence.
What has to change is the on-field “tonality” as McDaniel said.
There is a perception that McDaniel operates a creative offense based in speed and misdirection. There are elements of truth in that.
Dolphins’ Mike McDaniel wants more on-field aggression and violence
But what McDaniel really wants is an offense primed by physicality and power run.
Miami added a running back, Ollie Gordon, in the sixth round.
We can’t say how good Gordon will be, but he fits the theme. And thus it is very, very easy to understand why he’s a player McDaniel and Grier specifically targeted.
“I’m a bruiser,” Gordon told reporters. “I’m going to run through you. I’m going to make you not want to tackle me.”
Yes. More of that. Change perceptions. Change the tone.
It’s a clear goal for the Dolphins in 2025.
Joe Schad is a journalist covering the Miami Dolphins and the NFL at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach him at jschad@pbpost.com and follow him on Instagram and on X @schadjoe. Sign up for Joe’s free weekly Dolphins Pulse Newsletter. Help support our work by subscribing today.
The Cleveland Browns traded for an extended right tackle, former Houston Texan Tytus Howard, at the start of free agency as they began their rebuild of the offensive line that was awful in 2025. But Howard has played every position on the offensive line except for center, so if it’s all about getting your best five on the field, which it should be, there’s a chance Howard doesn’t play at right tackle in 2026.
While doing a mock draft on Peter Schrager’s podcast, former Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon had the Browns drafting Miami (FL) right tackle sixth overall. He talked about the issue with Howard, but said Mauigoa could either take over the tackle spot or be a really good guard.
Carthon said he knows that Mauigoa would be one of their best five, whether it is at guard or tackle. Some will say that a guy who may be best at guard isn’t worth the sixth overall pick, and I have to disagree. You should draft the best football players, and Francis Mauigoa is my highest-rated offensive lineman and seventh overall. It might be at guard, but I have a good feeling that Mauigoa will find a home in the NFL as a high-quality offensive lineman.
Inventory of homes and condos across the coastal Miami mainland and Miami Beach and the barrier island markets fell in the first quarter, marking the first big inventory drops since 2023.
The Corcoran Group’s first quarter reports don’t cover all of Miami-Dade County, but they offer insight into how the coastal markets, which have a higher share of luxury properties, are performing.
In Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Miami Beach, Fisher Island and Key Biscayne, single-family home inventory dropped 15 percent annually to 398 listings, and condo inventory was down 13 percent to 3,919 listings.
On Miami’s coastal mainland markets, which include Aventura, Miami Shores, Upper East Side, Edgewater, downtown Miami, Brickell, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove, inventory slipped 4 percent to 4,584 condo listings and 555 single-family listings, down 6 percent year-over-year.
Here’s a closer look at the market:
Miami Beach and the barrier islands
Single-family sales rose 13 percent year-over-year to 85 closings, the first time they have increased since the second quarter of 2024. Condo closings rose 15 percent to 693 closings, the first increase since the last quarter of 2024.
Pricing dropped, with the median price of single-family homes down 4 percent to $3.5 million and the median condo price down 9 percent to $640,000. The average price per square foot was nearly flat at $1,119.
Still, buyers set records with their purchases. Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid $170 million for the waterfront mansion at 7 Indian Creek Island Road, and Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz paid $44 million, or $7,949 per square foot, for a penthouse at the Four Seasons Residences at The Surf Club.
Coastal mainland
Sales of single-family homes on the coastal mainland rose 16 percent to 220 closings. While markets like Coral Gables experienced declines in condo and single-family home sales, Coconut Grove home sales surged — up over 100 percent for single-family homes to 47 closings and up 55 percent to 87 condo closings. Condo sales rose 13 percent to 759 closings.
The median price of single-family homes across the coastal mainland rose 11 percent to just over $2 million. The median price of condos increased slightly, up 1 percent, to $602,000.
The priciest deals in the first quarter were the $32 million trade of 12 Tahiti Beach Island Road in Coral Gables, and the $19.8 million sale of a penthouse at Vita at Grove Isle.
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