Chapter 1: What impact does trading Jalen Waddle have on the Dolphins' offense?
You heard Jerry earlier mention the Jalen Waddell trade to the Denver Broncos, which, of course, is going to make their offense more potent, you would imagine. But this Miami Dolphins team is really going through a massive rebuild. Of course, firing the coach, getting rid of Tua. They did sign Malik Willis. Maybe it's because they had to hit a salary cap floor.
for some reason, but they got a bunch of dead money on the cap with Tyreek Hill and others. If you're going to go full tank, go full tank. Seems like they are. Yeah, but signing Malik Willis doesn't go along with that, though. That's the thing.
Chapter 2: How is the Miami Dolphins' team undergoing a rebuild?
And maybe, I don't know, that's a smokescreen. Maybe Jeff Halfley's like, yeah, let's go sign Malik Willis because he stinks, and then we'll get the number one overall pick. But that's what they're trying to do. And you see... Ten NBA teams right now that aren't trying to win to get one of the top three picks in this upcoming NBA draft.
I think you're going to see many, many teams in the NFL try maybe early on to win, but then when they realize that they can't, you're going to see decisions made by management that says, all right, we're going to put our team in the best chance possible. to lose, and they're going to want to get to the top of this draft where you're going to have more quarterbacks than you had this year.
Chapter 3: What does signing Malik Willis signify for the Dolphins' strategy?
And the Dolphins are going to be one of those teams. They are. I'll tell you what, it took Denver Broncos not that long to get out from underneath Russell Wilson and that mess with Nathaniel Hackett and everything else that was going on there. And Sean Payton is going all in right now. And they're doing that before they have to pay Bo Nix. That's what they're doing.
And, you know, they are right in the mix. They are right there as one of the top teams in the league. They have all their young stars signed, I believe, especially on defense. So I think they're going to be a really good team again this year. And when I look at the Dolphins, they have $111 million of dead cap money. So that's Tua, that's Bradley Chubb, that's Tyreek Hill.
I don't know if Jalen Waddell factors into that at all with the trade, not sure. So, I mean, it's amazing what they're doing. They're basically tearing it all the way down. And what they have to hope is they have to hope to do what Darren Moochie has done with the Jets over the last year. I mean, Darren Moochie's made a lot of moves. He's made a lot of trades.
He's added a lot of assets into the draft. I mean, obviously, he's got to make the right picks, bring the right players in here, and start building this roster for whatever young quarterback that they're able to get their hands on either this year or next year. Mike McDaniel and Rob Sala were hired either the same year or a year apart in their jobs with the Jets and the Dolphins.
And it appeared that Mike McDaniel had figured it out with the Dolphins in that year where they were winning every game. They were blowing people out. Of course, he was playing great. He was in the MVP conversation. Right, and I remember having conversations where I'm like, wow, you know, the Miami Dolphins did it.
They were able to turn it around and rebuild it and get it done where the Jets are still scuffling, but now here we are again with two regime changes and then both those organizations and the AFCs completely tearing it down to the studs. Well, I mean...
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Chapter 4: Why are teams like the Dolphins and Jets choosing to tank?
I guess you'd say Buffalo did that before they got Josh Allen, and then you'd also say that New England was in the right spot to be able to add Mike Vrabel to that mix with the second-year quarterback, much like the Giants are the right team for Jackson Dart and John Harbaugh.
I mean, there's similarities all around the league that you can look at, and you can say, okay, if you can try to recreate what this one team did, you can actually go and win a Super Bowl. I mean, look what Seattle did, and look how many players Seattle's lost to free agency. Yeah, and that happens a lot. And coaches, by the way. Yeah, I mean, it happens a lot.
You have success in the NFL, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that you're probably up against the cap and you made some right decisions, but you can't keep everybody, and then the coaches start getting picked off your roster. I mean, that's why you look at what some of these dynasties have done, the Patriots and the Chiefs, and how they've figured it out for so many years.
It really is amazing. It's not a common occurrence in the NFL. I mean, staying on top is... almost as hard as getting on top. Yes, and you've got to have the right mix of players and coaches. I mean, to me, the coach is the most important hire you make because he's the one that sets the tone in the locker room, and the players have got to play for him and got to respect him.
Let's go to Pete in Kenilworth. What's going on, Pete? Good morning, gentlemen. How are you? Good, Pete. What do you got? So I called in a couple weeks ago about Stephen Ross and the Dolphins, and, you know, the Waddle news does hurt. but I'm tearing it down from the studs and building through the draft. Okay.
They're no longer going to sign these free agents to these contracts to put a bandaid on issues. They have also, you brought up you also, you brought up Mike McDaniel. Yeah. The first two years are great. If two doesn't get any concussions, we don't know what we're talking about. Okay. It could be a completely different story. I think that really hurt his career in Miami.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Dolphins' dead cap money situation?
And I really believe that the veterans they brought in through free agency, had their own way of doing things and didn't really relate to the way Mike McDaniel wanted to do things or hold people accountable, i.e. being late to meetings and things like that. Yeah, I mean, you've got to control the team, and that's what John Harbaugh has been brought in to do here at the Giants.
And I think right now the Miami Dolphins, I think they have, I want to say, seven picks in the top 94. That's pretty damn good, man. Top 94 picks of this NFL draft. The Dolphins have seven picks, and they are now the team with the second most draft capital in this draft behind the Jets. They just leapfrogged the Las Vegas Raiders. So how about this? Man, the top seven teams.
with the most draft capital going into the 2026 NFL draft in April, are all AFC teams. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, so Miami's put themselves in a very similar situation as the Jets have put themselves in, although the Dolphins went and got a younger quarterback, the Jets getting a veteran. But the Jets need to win some football games this year.
This is the first year of Jeff Halfley and the GM down there. I mean, people are going to understand that this is going to be a bad year for them, but the Jets, we know it's not going to be a great year, but they're going to have to win some games and look like they're on the right track.
I will say that for Darren Muji to come in here, he's been here about a year now, make all these moves that he has made and set the team up for next year at this time with getting rid of all this dead cap money. The salary cap is going to go up. They are going to have a ton of opportunity to be signing next year's free agents. The question is, is the owner going to have the patience to,
to stay with this group. I think if I had to guess, if they go 4-13, the coaching staff is gone, the GM is staying. That's what I would say. Given what Darren Muji has done here, I mean, come on, anybody can see what he's done and how he's done it. Now it comes down to the hard part, as you always say, is the draft and finding and picking the right players.
Yeah, and if he does, and he does what we've seen Howie Roseman do in Philadelphia and Brad Holmes do... Joe Douglas did that the year that they drafted Sauce Gardner and Garrett Wilson. Yeah, but then he blew it with the quarterback. You know, just absolutely swinging a miss of epic proportions. But...
You know, if he's able to do that, Darren Muji, what those two guys I mentioned earlier have done, I mean, he's going to go down in history as one of the greatest figures in Jets history. If he's able to make the right choices, get the quarterback and build a team through the draft with the massive amount of picks that they have. Yeah, they have four picks in the top 44. 44?
And, you know, like you point to the Detroit model. Yep. That's your model that you like to point to. Well, you would always point to the Detroit model as far as Dan Campbell and changing the culture. Yes. And my whole thing with that was, is Dan Campbell as good of a coach if Brad Holmes isn't plucking five starters out of the draft three years in a row? Right.
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