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You share your thoughts on the Miami Dolphins future!
Last night I discussed the Super Bowl and our Miami Dolphins’ trouble making it out of the first round of the playoffs, let alone making it to the big game. I then asked the following question
So beyond getting through the first round of the playoffs how far away do you think this team is from making it back to the Super Bowl or winning the Super Bowl? Please tell us how far away the team is from making it to the big game in your opinion and why.
Below are some of your answers and thoughts on the subject-
Bill Moody sees some positives and the obvious negatives.
This was year 5 of the rebuild, starting with the tear-down in 2019. My expectation was that in year 5 we would win a play-off game. I didn’t set the bar at the Super Bowl or even Conference Championship, just simply, win a play-off game. The team failed in this regard. I’m not quite at the point of saying the rebuild has failed since the team has been decimated with injuries over the past two years. However, the team now has cap issues and missing draft picks, and it’s getting hard to envision what’s next. Hopefully, they can carry something forward, and I do think that they can be competitive next season, but the team could also just as likely be headed for another teardown.
On a positive side, the team has had 4 winning seasons in a row, a feat not accomplished in over 2 decades. The team also made the playoffs two years in a row, again, something not done in over two decades. The next step is to be competitive against the top-tier teams and in the post-season. If we can’t jump that hurdle, then may as well dissolve the team. Nobody wants to be an eternal cheerleader for the fodder teams.
daytonadolfan thinks the team gets there in the next two seasons, but he was once wrong…or maybe it was more than once.
We’ll see after this year’s offseason coaching changes but I’d say we are within 2 years of going all the way. Of course, I have been wrong before!
wolfpack1 has no faith that it will happen anytime in the near future.
Probably not for a very long time and I have been a dolphin’s fan since 1972. So, as a kid I became a fan during ‘that’ season and watched all the games that I could including the SB. The current formula of Tua+Grier+McDaniels = 1st round playoff loss. There are just too many good teams in the AFC to have inconsistent QB play and that will end your playoff run quickly, no matter how many Tyreek Hills you have on the team. McDaniels isn’t adaptable and was often outcoached as many on this forum have pointed out. Grier is who he is and no sense wasting words on what needs to be done with him. So, I don’t know when the Dolphins will win another championship. That is why you suit up and play the games, other than the paycheck, but for the fans it’s disappointing to watch other teams celebrate as they move on in the playoffs and your team is cleaning out their lockers. Just another year as a dolphins fan.
coach k 13 is always an optimist!
I always go with next year!!!!!
Call_for_the_Priest’77 has rolled out a two-point plan!
In order for our team to become relevant we need two things. The first actually helps achieve the second.
1: STAY HEALTHY!!
2: Plan B offense
#1 is obvious. How we achieve it is not so obvious. But what we can do (and I will be thoroughly disappointed if we don’t) is turn this team upside down and inside out with help from outside the organization to find out why our guys are dropping like ducks at a shooting gallery. Everything and everybody, coaches, players and other staffers need their roles examined to figure out why this decimation has occurred for the past two years running and how we stop it next season.
#2 refers to McD and Tua running plays that are NOT designed to throw the football like it were some live grenade to be tossed back to the enemy! We need plays where Tua can take his time and pick his options when Tyreek isn’t open off the snap. Certainly a healthy bunch of OL regulars will be a tremendous help in facilitating this. Working in some smart QB runs would also work in this Plan B format.
I trust Grier to do a good job at getting our most important FAs signed up for next year and beyond. I also think there will be some opportunities in the draft to get some help in key areas (transitional OLB to ILB stud, DE, CB, OL). We won’t fill everything from the draft but current and new FA signings should fill all the remaining gaps. I also think there are opportunities for Grier to manage the cap effectively with workable player cuts / trades and restructuring to keep the team competitive into future years.
We will have the talent to be relevant, provided our guys stay on the field and off of the medical carts!
heatforlife thinks it’s soon! Just need to wait for all of the good QBs in the AFC to retire.
when pat josh joe lamar retire
sdphinsfan says it’s from two years to who the hell knows!
Talent-wise, we’re a couple of years away. To get to the big game, you have to be good enough to get to December and then you have to be healthy or getting healthy. Who the hell knows when that could ever happen again….
SlayerNation1 wants some realignment.
Easiest path: petition the NFL to swap Carolina to AFC East, Miami to NFC South
The AFC is going to be brutal for the foreseeable future.
Spok507 believes that it all falls to the level of defensive play.
If Weaver can turn this defense into a tougher, meaner, tackling force, we have a chance. But I still can’t see Tua taking the team on his shoulders in December and January and helping make things happen. So it’ll have to be the D peaking at the right time, keeping the game in check while the offense does just enough to win. In other words, I’m not all that hopeful we’ll make it past the Wildcard round for the foreseeable future.
budglo doesn’t believe that it all falls on the QB.
Well Griese had to get through KC, Steelers, Colts, and Jets just to get there. There were several QBs that were better than him. The Dolphins had a better team overall and went to 3 straight Super Bowls, winning 2 including the perfect season. Instead of throwing in the towel, find a path and stick to it
21Dave said some nonsense but I swear that he makes a lot more sense in person!
Nevuary 32!! Save the Date!
DolphinsKings1 is my age and I feel his pain, all of it all of it only I have been a fan since early childhood so yeah, um, yeah…
As long as this team is in the AFC East and AFC period we will not win any time soon that’s the sad reality plus, I don’t think Tua and McDaniel will do it. But if they do, the best chance to win and get to a Super Bowl is having the #1 seed and playing at Hard Rock Stadium. It gives you a stronger chance to win 2 games at home. But, I just don’t see it as long as Mahomes, Burrow, the kid Stroud, Jackson, Trash Allen, and the others are better than Tua. I have been a fan for 42+ years (age 12 1982) and I hope one day to celebrate a Super Bowl Championship in my lifetime now at 53 going on 54.
dedstrk316 says save the date!
2027
DX@TX says it will take a new GM.
Never as long as Grier runs the draft.
Miami7 says that the attempt to “buy” a championship is not working out.
I don’t see our Phins winning a SB anytime soon.
Grier tried to ‘buy’ a Champion. That’s just not a viable plan. Next season the foibles of that direction ‘may’ hinder this team? Extending Tua prematurely is dangerously unnecessary. That could work out OK or it could set this organization back another 4-5 years?
Thusfar Tua has shown a propensity to wilt in the biggest moments. He is now 0-7 in the end of season games he has played in – in Dec./Jan. under McDaniel.
McDaniel (while very likable) is stubborn and hasn’t provided much when 2nd half adjustments are needed. He’s been outcoached numerous times by the heads of the teams he would need to go through, at least in the foreseeable future. He doesn’t appear to have the comradery of defensive minds to bring in (maybe didn’t foster or nurture relationships as he developed in his path)? So Weaver becomes almost a lame duck hire, who ‘may’ work out (for however long – or short) he’s here, or, he may be another in the Dolphins eternal string of poor coaches post Shula.
Tyreek ‘IS’ the Dolphins right now. He alone makes the team, elevates the team to heights it wouldn’t come close to without him. Jitterbug Wrs aren’t necessarily known for longevity so he’s got a couple year window maybe before his toes are off the edge of a cliff.
This team was [built?] to win NOW. But they’re still a ways away & in a precarious situation both financially and via the draft opportunities. As much as I’d LOVE to see another Championship – I just don’t see it happening anytime in the foreseeable future.
Miami needs better talent. Build thru the draft and with undrafted free agents. Tua will get better this year. He will work on mobility and his reads.
There seems to be a wide range of time for which our fan base believes that this team will once again be a true championship-caliber team. Thank you again to everyone who took the time to stop in and answer the question of the day. Check back with us tomorrow evening for another question of the day post.
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Fiery, fatal crash shuts down southbound lanes of Don Shula Expressway in southwest Miami-Dade
An investigation is underway after a man was killed in a fiery crash with a truck on the Don Shula Expressway in southwest Miami-Dade early Tuesday morning, according to officials.
The Florida Highway Patrol said that a white Mercedes coupe was headed south on SR 847 (Don Shula Expressway), near Southwest 104th Street when it crashed into the back of a truck.
A large fire broke out after the crash, and investigators said that the driver of the Mercedes, who was only identified as an adult Hispanic male, died at the scene.
The fiery crash forced officials to shut down the southbound lanes of the roadway, and drivers were being asked to seek an alternate route.
Heavy delays were reported behind the crash, and delays also started to build in the northbound lanes near the scene.
The southbound lanes have since reopened.
No other information was released.
The Miami Heat woke up Monday no longer in control of the chase they had led for weeks. With the 2026 NBA Draft set for Tuesday and the Milwaukee Bucks closing in on a resolution to the Giannis Antetokounmpo saga, Miami suddenly finds itself in a two-team race it is no longer favored to win.
ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Monday that Antetokounmpo is expected to be moved before the draft, with the Heat and Boston Celtics emerging as the two finalists. The Bucks have narrowed their talks to those clubs, sources told Charania, and are weighing two dramatically different packages for the former two-time MVP.
For a fan base that spent the better part of a month believing Miami was the team to beat, the shift landed hard. The Heat are still in it. They are simply no longer the favorite.
A two-team race with a Tuesday deadline
Milwaukee set the timeline itself. Bucks ownership signaled in May that it wanted Antetokounmpo’s future settled by the start of the draft, and Charania reported Monday on ESPN’s “Get Up” that a trade is expected to land in line with that cutoff.
Charania framed the two bids as opposites. One is built around an established star, the other around youth and draft capital, and he described the negotiations bluntly.
“These conversations have been a blood bath,” Charania said.
He also stressed that whatever happens, it will not balloon into a multi-team construction the way other blockbusters have. Whether the deal closes Monday or Tuesday, Charania said, it is expected to be a one-to-one trade between Milwaukee and one of the two finalists, with no third team folded in. That detail matters for Miami, because it removes one of the lifelines the Heat had been counting on.
Boston changed the math with Jaylen Brown
For most of the buildup, Miami held the perceived edge because the Celtics were reluctant to part with Jaylen Brown. That changed over the weekend. The Stein Line’s Marc Stein reported Monday that Boston emerged “with a real shot” to win the race built around a Brown-centric offer, with Milwaukee willing to consider a swap even without a third team to absorb his contract.
That is the development that flipped the race. Brown is a five-time All-Star and a former NBA Finals MVP coming off the best statistical season of his career, having averaged a career-high 28.7 points per game as Boston’s centerpiece. He is also a bona fide star Milwaukee can plug in immediately, which speaks directly to ownership’s stated preference to get a recognizable face back rather than a stack of prospects.
The money works, too. A Brown-for-Antetokounmpo framework lines up cleanly under the salary cap, and from Milwaukee’s vantage point, flipping one star for another carries better optics than entering a full teardown empty-handed.
Prediction markets moved with the news. Per Kalshi data, Miami’s implied odds slid from the low 60s into the mid-30s on Monday while Boston vaulted toward roughly 70 percent. Those figures shift by the hour and should be read as a temperature check rather than a forecast, but the direction of the swing is the story.
What Miami is putting on the table
The Heat’s pitch leans on volume and flexibility rather than star power. Reported frameworks have centered on Tyler Herro, Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Nikola Jovic, with Kasparas Jakucionis and multiple future first-round picks also in the mix, and Miami holds the No. 13 overall pick in Tuesday’s draft.
It is a thoughtful offer for a rebuilding team. It is also, by definition, not a star, and that is the gap Boston is now exploiting.
There is a limit to how far Miami is willing to go. Bam Adebayo is the only player truly untouchable in the Heat’s discussions, and Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald reported that the front office does not want to strip the roster and its draft capital down to the studs to get a deal done. That restraint is understandable given the franchise’s history of swinging big and missing, most painfully on Damian Lillard three years ago, but it also means Miami may be unwilling to match a price Boston now appears ready to meet.
The case for the Heat to lose this race
There is a real argument, voiced by some of the league’s most prominent analysts, that Miami should be careful what it wishes for. Zach Lowe and Bill Simmons both cautioned against the Heat gutting their young core for an aging star, with Lowe warning that the long-term cost could hollow out the roster.
“The concerns I think are very real for Miami,” Lowe said.
The basketball context behind that caution is hard to ignore. Antetokounmpo is 31 and coming off the most injury-plagued season of his career, appearing in just 36 games amid groin, calf and knee issues while the Bucks finished 32-50 and missed the playoffs, snapping a run of nine straight postseason appearances.
He still produced when available, averaging 27.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game, but his looming free agency in 2027 is depressing his trade value across the league. For a Heat team that went 43-39 and has been hunting a co-star for Adebayo since dealing Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors, the math of trading a future for a 31-year-old’s prime window is genuinely fraught.
What happens next
The next 24 hours should decide it. Milwaukee has telegraphed the draft as its internal deadline, and the expectation is a resolution before Tuesday night, though multiple insiders have noted the saga could still spill into free agency if the Bucks decide their leverage is better served by waiting.
For Miami, the stakes are stark. Landing Antetokounmpo would end years of frustrated superstar pursuits and reset the franchise’s ceiling overnight. Losing him to Boston, again on the doorstep of a deal, would sting in a way Heat fans know all too well. Either outcome arrives soon, and for the first time in this chase, the Heat are watching it unfold without holding the best hand.
Companies hired by the state to operate Alligator Alcatraz were notified Monday morning to begin “full demobilization” of the facility, quietly bringing an ignominious close a $1.2 billion experiment that had once been hailed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump as a model other states should pursue, four sources familiar with the operations of the detention center told CBS News Miami.
“All vendors got the notice,” one source explained.
The final few detainees left the facility last week, either being transferred to other detention centers or deported to third countries.
Federal and state officials at the time said it was due to safety concerns over the start of hurricane season.
They even suggested the facility would remain ready to take on new detainees.
In fact, officials familiar with the plan told CBS News Miami that it was always the intention to begin full demobilization by taking down fencing and removing trailers and other structures built at the site located in the middle of the Florida Everglades.
That demobilization effort is expected to take several days, and once it is completed, the site will reopen as a small airport used to train pilots.
The decision to close the facility has been speculated for the past two months, with even DeSantis saying he expected it to close soon.
“If we shut the lights out tomorrow, we will be able to say it served its purpose,” DeSantis said earlier this month during a press conference.
The decision to close Alligator Alcatraz was due primarily to the escalating cost of operating the facility, which was once hailed by President Trump as a model for other states to emulate.
The total cost for the detention is now estimated to be $1.2 billion.
Opened on July 3, 2025, the detention center was the brainchild of DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and built using state tax money.
At the time, DeSantis maintained that the state would be reimbursed by the federal government for all of its expenses.
However, that funding has yet to come through. State officials submitted a $608 million request at the end of last year.
It was eventually approved by federal officials, but the actual reimbursement has been held up because of court challenges, environmental concerns and other issues.
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