The Miami Dolphins Should Take Some "Bad Medicine" In 2025 Despite Short-Term Pressure To Win

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Can the Miami Dolphins balance short-term success with long-term financial health? As the team navigates the complexities of the 2025 and 2026 salary cap, key decisions loom for star players like Tyreek Hill, Terron Armstead, and Bradley Chubb. Explore the intricate dance of talent allocation versus team building as Kyle Crabbs breaks down potential contract restructures and the impact of dead cap on competitiveness. With insights into the Dolphins' strategic planning, this episode examines how the team can maintain its edge while preparing for future challenges. Discover how the Dolphins might free up over $100 million in cap space by 2026 and what that means for their 2025 performance. Tune in for a deep dive into the Miami Dolphins' path to sustainable success and the tough choices that lie ahead.

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0:00.0	Today on Locked on Dolphins, we're exploring the short-term pressure that the Dolphins brain trust may feel
0:06.1	and how to balance that out against the long-term outlook of building a team that's still set up for success.
0:18.6	You are Locked-on Dolphins, your daily Miami Dolphins podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:29.3	All right, Miami, welcome to another episode of Locked On Dolphins.
0:33.0	It is your team every day here on the Locked On Network.
0:36.0	I'm your host, Kyle Crabs, a lifelong Miami Dolphins fan, host of Lockedon Dolphins,
0:40.1	co-host of Locked on NFL scouting, author of Touchdown Miami on Substack and the NFL
0:44.9	draft lead for the 33rd team.
0:47.5	I want to give a special shout out and welcome to our everydayers because it is your team
0:52.0	every day.
0:52.8	We don't just say it.
0:54.1	We live it.
0:54.8	We live it.
1:00.3	Here on the Locked On Network today on the show, we are looking at short-term pressure versus long-term picture, which is not an easy thing to simultaneously have to balance.
1:11.3	And I think a lot of Dolphins fans, it's very easy to make a lot of assumptions about
1:17.9	what that means and what that looks like for this offseason for the team with kind of
1:25.9	the low hanging fruit and presumptive understanding being that this team
1:30.7	is going to not move on from Tyree Kill and potentially if Tehran Armstead wants to be back,
1:36.6	they can hang on to Tehran Armstead and not potentially making a transition with Bradley Chubb
1:42.1	and keeping the nucleus of the team for one more go around
1:46.2	and we're going to do things differently with how we spend in free agency.
1:51.9	But that coming at the cost of who do you restructure?
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