Miami, FL
Your moves as owner of the Miami Dolphins!
Last week, I asked the following questions-
if you suddenly became the owner of the team and all the top decisions fell to you, what changes would you make? I imagine most of us would immediately revert to the old-school logo and uniforms, but what other changes would you make before the 2024 season begins? Would you make any personnel changes to the coaching staff or the team’s other management staff to include the general manager?
Below are some of your answers-
phinsatx seems good with the status quo, except, of course, that whole lost draft pick thing.
If I was the owner, we’d have a 3rd round pick this year. That said… After all the bumbling Ross has done, I’m pretty good with the direction right now. It’s been a lot worse and seems to be trending up.
Call_for_the_Priest’77 would like to crack down on going out, although I think he might wind up butting heads with the players’ union. He would also have the team work harder once the preseason/season begins.
Never mind fluffing uniforms or firing our GM who has got us near relevant status for the first time in 17 years. As owner I would do something really productive for the team’s future. I would go retro in terms of laying down rules that would limit players from going out clubbing and night-lifing and thus messing up their routines, sleep time and other facets of their game. I want hard nosed players on AND off the field. I would make sure that the coaches follow through with this policy. Some privileges could be earned by on field effort after a night out during the week or lost when such leads to poor on field results.
On the whole, I would like my team to have one focus only. Football. I would discourage excessive social media interaction, though any rules limiting such would be difficult to impossible to enforce.
Guys can do what they like during the offseason. July to the end of the season, they are in work mode. Train them hard. I’d move the facilities to a rural setting, well away from distractions. Get these guys into great shape physically and mentally and keep them that way! Maybe then we can finish off a relevant December month the right way and propel ourselves into January and beyond!
VolFaninFla is clearly over the GM!
Fire Grier
Bill Moody sarcastically suggested a name change!
Change the name to the Miami Blowfish, because they’ve been disrespecting Dolphins for the past 20 years… I kid, I kid, kind of. 😉
The Roo1 also had some sarcasm, but damn, it’s fun to see those Bills fans whine about the “unfair” way our stadium is built.
Ahhhhhh !!!!! forgot the biggest one.
A clear retractable roof on the stadium that would act as a magnifying glass over the visitors bench.
Miami7 has quite a plan, starting with fixing the uniforms and then hiring away all the best scouts in the NFL. Then, he will inform Tua that 2024 is your show-me year and then inform the rest of the team that it’s a playoff win now, or this team will look vastly different in 2025.
Numero uno is the uniformo! Go back to glory! Historic franchises don’t change their logo!!!
Second – find (and hire away) the scouts responsible for;
Finding LBrs for the Steelers
Finding QBs for the Packers
Finding OL for the Eagles
…you get the idea (we need like 8-10 ‘positional gurus’ found/hired/paid
‘Thirdly’ – no premature extension for Tua – make this a prove it year – win late or find a leader that actually leads
Lastly – inform the entire team that 2024-25 season is playoff wins or bust….no playoff win the team gets blown up (with a new GM). NOBODY safe!!!
* One sidenote adendum: Sell the team Ross
21Dave says he will sell, but the truth is he will put me in charge, and I will use the profits to fuel his never-ending golf vacation. Don’t worry; I’ve got this, guys/gals! I will make every decision based on a Phinsider poll…
Easy answer ….. Sell the team take my money and retire. Travel the world and play golf!!
dedstrk316 is going to entirely throw in the towel or hire someone that he trusts to run the whole damn thing.
Fire myself because I’d be terrible at it. Either that or stay out of the way and hire football people to trust and delegate to.
phinette would also tell Tua to hold his horses on the whole new contract thing while also taking a long, hard look at Grier.
I would definitely hold off on signing Tua to a long term deal until after the season. Let him test free agency. Name one team that would sign him as a starter. Also re-evaluate Grier after the season. I am tired of crappy early round picks, when we actually have a any of those picks ♀️
tvegas897 says no extension yet for Tua and Grier is put on notice! Also, going to fix the uni’s!
Throwback uniforms made permanent. No long term contract to Tua yet. No playoff win next year, no Grier. OUT!!
Dolfanjoe is going to hand out free parking and feed everyone while also fixing the plumbing.
Free hot dog days at the stadium, Free parking days at the stadium ! Water fountains that actually work , even when the toilets are being flushed!
dolphinfan1323 is also on the throwbacks bus!
HunztheMighty is working on a science experiment.
I would clone Dan Marino. Plain and simple.
MIAMI235 is going to bring the live dolphin back to the stadium.
I would also give Flipper his job back.
( Knocking balls out of his tank! )
daytonadolfan is going to change the logos and colors back to old-school while setting us all up on game day!
Evening , Old logos and colors would be 1st on the list and special luxury boxes for the Phinsider family !! (maybe a couple of the constant naysayers will get the cheap seats )lol . As far as the team goes , that’s on the coach !
Well, the consensus is certainly for the uniforms to revert to some form of throwback. Quite a few of us were also not fans of giving Tua a big ole bag of money quite yet while also putting the GM on notice. Tona was going to be the most generous, well to us anyway, so what else really matters? Thank you to everyone who took the time to stop in and answer the question of the day.
Miami, FL
3 hurt in fire on Lincoln Road that started underground
Three people were hurt after a building caught fire on Lincoln Road on Sunday, according to authorities.
The Miami Beach Fire Department said it was working a fire near 230 Lincoln Road.
The flames had spread from a fire in a manhole that “ignited an FPL vault of an adjacent building,” officials said.
Three people were taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center with minor injuries.
The building was evacuated, and FPL has shut off power to the surrounding area, the fire department said.
Drivers were asked to avoid the area of Collins Avenue between 16th and 17th streets while crews worked the scene.
Miami, FL
“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star Tommie Lee among 6 arrested during World Cup match in Miami, sheriff says
Reality television personality Tommie Lee — whose real name is Atasha Jefferson — best known for her appearances on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” was among six people arrested during the England vs. Norway FIFA World Cup match in Miami on Saturday, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said 60,024 fans attended the match. Deputies also reported 19 ejections from the stadium, adding that all incidents were isolated and handled quickly.
Authorities have not yet released the circumstances surrounding Jefferson’s arrest or any charges she may face.
A social media account that regularly reports celebrity news claimed Sunday that Jefferson was arrested July 11 and released July 12 after posting a $1,000 bond. The post also alleged she is facing a felony charge of interference with a sporting or entertainment event and said she later shared a video on Snapchat appearing to be in good spirits after her release.
What we don’t know
CBS News has not independently verified those claims, including the reported charge, bond amount or release information, and Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office has not publicly confirmed those details.
CBS News has also not independently verified what led to the encounter, and the sheriff’s office has not said what prompted deputies to take Jefferson into custody.
CBS News has requested Jefferson’s arrest report, booking information and any charging documents from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. A request for comment has also been sent to Jefferson’s representatives.
Reality TV star’s legal troubles in South Florida amid World Cup festivities
Jefferson rose to national prominence as one of the breakout personalities on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” before later appearing on several Zeus Network reality series, where she has remained a frequent cast member.
This is not Jefferson’s first legal issue in South Florida. In 2024, she was arrested in Miami Beach on a battery charge following an incident outside LIV Nightclub. Court records from that case alleged she physically confronted another person before officers took her into custody.
Saturday’s arrest comes as Miami continues hosting FIFA World Cup matches that have drawn tens of thousands of fans from around the world. Despite the arrests and ejections, the sheriff’s office said the event proceeded safely and described the incidents as isolated.
This is a developing story. CBS News will update this article as additional information, including the exact circumstances surrounding Jefferson’s arrest and any charges, becomes available.
Miami, FL
Why I’m Not Worried About Giannis in Miami
The reaction to the trade was predictable. The moment Pat Riley landed his whale and the Heat sent most of their young talent and a war chest of draft picks to Milwaukee for Giannis Antetokounmpo, the conversation turned away from how Miami finally landed the star they had been seeking, to calf strains and Giannis not being the superstar player that he once was.
“He only played 36 games last year.” ”The calf injuries keep coming back.” “He’s 31, turning 32.” “They bet the franchise on a body that’s breaking down.”
Various voices on Giannis Antetokounmpo
I’ve spent Over 15 years working with youth, collegiate and pro athletes on exactly this question, not “is he hurt,” but “what does this injury actually mean for what comes next.” And I’ll say it plainly: I’M NOT WORRIED ABOUT GIANNIS. Not in the way the panic merchants want you to be.
Let me be clear about what I’m NOT claiming. I’m not his trainer. I don’t have his imaging, his force-plate data, or his medical file. And I’m not going to insult you by telling you calf strains are nothing, because in a 31-year-old NBA forward with 13 years in the NBA, they are decidedly something. The fear has a real basis.
The soleus and the gastrocnemius, which are the two muscles of your calf, both funnel down into the Achilles tendon. When a calf is compromised and an athlete returns before it has its full capacity back, the load it can’t absorb has to go somewhere, and the Achilles is next in line. We’ve watched it happen on the biggest stages. Those are the facts and I take it seriously. I just don’t think it’s the story here.
Here’s why…
He’s one of the most durable superstars of his era
Before we talk about what’s fragile, look at what’s been bulletproof. Strip away the two COVID-compressed seasons that the entire league played short, and strip away last year (where he wa shut down by the team), and across his other ten campaigns Giannis averaged roughly 73 games a season and never once dipped below 63. He cleared 72 games in 7 different seasons. For more than a decade, the single most physically violent player in basketball, a 6’11”, 250+ pound freight train who initiates more contact per possession than almost anyone alive — was, by availability, an iron man.
Tissue tolerance, connective-tissue quality, recovery capacity, and movement efficiency are stable characteristics of an athlete, and Giannis has eleven years of evidence that his are elite. One brutal season doesn’t erase that baseline. When a historically available athlete has one wrecked year, the honest question should be “what was different about that year.” And a lot was.
The injuries are soft tissue, not structural
Here’s the piece that many are missing, and it’s the heart of my optimism. Call me a fan if you want, but I hate seeing ANYONE get injured. I’m rooting for Giannis to bounce back.
There are two broad categories of injury, and they age completely differently. The first is structural: torn ligaments, ruptured tendons, cartilage and joint degeneration, stress fractures. These leave a permanent mark. A reconstructed ACL is never the original. Cartilage doesn’t grow back. These are the injuries that genuinely shorten careers, because the tissue itself is changed forever and the clock only runs one direction.
The second category is soft-tissue strains or muscle. A calf strain, a groin strain, a hamstring pull. And muscle is the one tissue in the lower body that, when managed properly, heals back to full structural integrity. It is not a cumulative wound. A calf you strained in December and rehabbed correctly is not a weaker calf in March; it’s a healed calf. There’s no scar that compounds the way an arthritic joint compounds. Strains are frustrating, they’re disruptive to a season, and they recur when you rush them, but they are not a countdown timer ticking toward catastrophe.
Now go down Giannis’s list from last season: a low-grade groin strain. A calf strain. A re-aggravated calf. An ankle sprain. A knee hyperextension with a bone bruise. Look at that honestly. The ankle sprain is acute meaning it’s a one-off mechanical event as opposed to a sign of decay. The knee hyperextension and bone bruise are traumatic. That could be somebody’s leg, a bad landing, a freak gather (no pun intended). A bone bruise heals. None of those four are degenerative. None of them are the kind of injury that feeds the next one.
Which leaves the calf. The one real recurrence. So let’s talk about the calf specifically, because that’s where the argument is actually won or lost.
What a soleus strain is
Your calf is two muscles doing two different jobs. The gastrocnemius is the showy one that crosses both the knee and the ankle, it’s fast-twitch, it’s what fires when you sprint and explode off the floor. The soleus sits underneath it, crosses only the ankle, and it’s the endurance muscle. It’s considered the postural workhorse that absorbs force every time you decelerate, land, and push off, thousands of times a night in the case of many athletes. Giannis’s recurring problem has been the soleus.
Soleus strains are classic high-mileage, fatigue-and-load injuries. They show up in athletes who run an enormous volume on a heavy frame which is the literal job description of a player who logged the third-highest workload on a bad team.
And here’s the critical part: soleus strains are notoriously slow to heal and notoriously easy to re-tweak. The calf is one of hardest lower-leg structures to truly load-test before return. It can pass every clinical check, feel 100 percent walking and even jogging, and still not have the deep capacity to handle a full-speed game’s worth of repeated max-effort decelerations. Return a week early and you’re injuring healed tissue that hadn’t been rebuilt to game-level capacity yet.
Last season was the worst possible environment for getting that management right. Consider the context Giannis was actually operating in. Milwaukee went 32-50 and missed the playoffs. The franchise eventually fired its coach.
Giannis spent the entire year as the center of a trade saga that, by every report, had him wanting out for over a year. A declining team with a disgruntled superstar and a front office weighing his trade value against his health is the textbook setup for muddled, hurried, incentive-conflicted return decisions which are exactly the conditions under which a soleus strain becomes two soleus strains.
Now change the environment as he lands in Miami. Known for being an organization with a near-mythological reputation for conditioning and body management, a culture that has rehabilitated and extended careers other teams gave up on.
He pairs with Bam Adebayo, which means for the first time in years Giannis doesn’t have to be the entire offensive and defensive engine every single night. As of now the roster isn’t fully complete but they will add to that so that there’s lower usage and a shared load. Real return-to-play standards instead of playoff-desperation math. You take the most fixable injury pattern on his chart and drop it into the best possible setting to fix it.
His game is built to age
There’s a movement argument too. Giannis isn’t a stop-start, pull-up, hard-cut guard whose game is one violent deceleration after another. He’s a downhill, long-stride force athlete. His value comes from length, gather, straight-line pressure, rim protection, and playmaking. Those are skills that lean on size and feel, and they degrade gracefully with age in a way that twitchy, change-of-direction games don’t. The same frame that makes him an injury talking point is the frame that lets him dominate without living on the edge of his physical limits every possession.
What would actually change my mind? If the recurring issue were structural, like a partial Achilles tear, chronic patellar tendon breakdown that imaging showed was degenerating, cartilage loss in the knee, I’d be writing a very different column.
If he came back this season and strained the same calf a third and fourth time despite a clean environment and proper protocols, that would tell me something about the tissue I can’t see. And the Achilles risk that follows calf injuries in some athletes is real enough that it should govern how Miami brings him back: slowly, on capacity-based criteria.
EVERY great athlete in his thirties requires careful management. That’s just the truth.
I’m not telling you he’s invincible. But I’m not willing to bet against eleven years of durability and the most fixable problem on the chart if you want. I’ll take the Greek Freak, the new setting, and the science that we’ll all be watching a productive age-32 season with a lot less fear than the headlines are selling you.
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