To judge Miami Dolphins coaches like Jeff Hathley and Bobby Sloak in 2026, we're going to have to dig a little deeper than the surface.

We're exploring that here and now.

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dolphins in 2026 while acknowledging that their classes and curriculum is going to be a little

different than most teams, right? Think about it. This team has a whole bunch of resources tied into players no longer part of the team.

You've got a whole bunch of one-year contracts.

You've got a whole bunch of young players.

You got 13 rookies from your draft class.

You're going to have nearly 50% of your roster's first and second-year players.

It's going to be a little tough to hold them parallel to teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers

or the Buffalo Bills or the Los Angeles Chargers or the Philadelphia Eagles, teams that

are not dealing with the kind of transition that Miami is.

So our ability to gauge the performance of this team probably needs to go a little deeper

than just are we winning or losing football games.

It would be great for this team to weigh overachieve in the win column versus the external expectations because everybody would feel good.

And all of these other things that we're going to talk about on today's show will naturally

be taken care of if you overperform in the win loss column.

But the win total projections are somewhere around four, five wins for this season.

The national media has no expectations for the dolphins, although some of the content

that's coming out now is we really like what the dolphins did this offseason with their

rebuild.

But if I had to critique one thing, it's that they left too little in the cupboard to work with and there's not enough talent on the roster. But if there's one thing that maybe I would have done differently, I would have traded Devon A. Chan. So I don't know where it's, it's, we're talking out of both sides of our mouth as far as the critiques, right? And it's just at the surface.

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