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Locked On Dolphins - Daily Podcast On The Miami Dolphins

The Miami Dolphins Are Living One Of Mike McDaniel's Favorite Mantras One Last Time

Locked On Dolphins - Daily Podcast On The Miami Dolphins

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🗓️ 22 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Miami Dolphins undergo massive roster overhaul, parting ways with 60% of last season’s core—including Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, Tua Tagovailoa, and Minkah Fitzpatrick. With Mike McDaniel's “45% turnover” mantra again a reality, fans are left to wonder: can the new nucleus of draft picks and young talent create the stability this franchise desperately seeks? Kyle Crabbs breaks down the Dolphins’ historic shakeup, examining Chris Grier’s building philosophy, key salary cap decisions, and Jon-Eric Sullivan’s draft-centric rebuild. Insightful analysis covers standout departures, the challenges of team culture, and the future roles for rookies like Malik Washington and Chop Robinson. Can Miami’s fresh faces rise to the occasion, or will roster volatility keep them chasing the AFC East elite? Dive into the numbers, projections, and what this dramatic shift means for the Dolphins’ chances in the coming NFL season.

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Mike McDaniel may be gone, but the 2026 dolphins are going to be living out one of his favorite sayings from last year one last time.

0:15.0

You are Locked on Dolphins, your daily Miami Dolphins podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. All right, Miami. Welcome to another episode of Lockdown Dolphins. It is your team every day here on the Lockdown Network. I'm your host, Cowan Crabbs, Lifelong Miami Dolphins, a host of Lockdown Dolphins, co-host of Lockedon. Scouting author of Touchdown, Miami on Substack, and about staff writer for A to Z sports. Today's episode of Lockdowneufants is brought you by Fanduel. The biggest stage in world soccer is here. Let there be goals on Fandul, visit fandul.com to get started now. And today on Lockedon Dolphins, I'm going to be exploring one of Mike McDaniel's most

0:58.0

popular sayings, phrases. Mike had a lot of phrase. But one that really felt like it took over

1:06.3

in the final year of his tenure as Dolph's head coach was something about how much roster

1:11.6

turnover there is across the league on a year over year basis.

1:16.5

And this, like we're starting to learn some of the Jeff Halfley isms, the saying that

1:21.4

tried and true you know is going to show up in 2025, one of the Mike McDaniel isms

1:27.3

was how there's close to 50%

1:30.9

45% roster turnover on every roster across the NFL on average year over year. And you go back

1:40.0

to September 3rd last year was one quote that I came with this 45% roster turnover.

1:49.6

It's 45% roster turnover across the league.

1:51.8

So by week one is so much fun.

1:53.4

If you're trying to stand on last year's business, you're going to have a rude awakening.

1:56.3

You can't rely on yesterday's work for today's output.

1:59.8

We've talked a lot about how having a team that transplants so much talent from other

2:08.7

places as the dolphins found out the hard way makes it difficult for you to sustain

2:14.0

a culture and a standard and cohesiveness.

2:18.6

And if you hit adversity and these guys don't really know each other because they all came

2:22.1

from different places, it just makes your job and life that much harder to keep everybody

2:26.9

together and to have everybody speaking the same language and seeing things exactly the same

2:31.5

and having the kind of trust that it takes in each other to hold

2:34.6

each other accountable and have conversations about who screwed up on this play or who should

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