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Who Needs To STEP UP For The Miami Dolphins To Give The Chris Grier Legacy A Silver Lining?

Locked On Dolphins - Daily Podcast On The Miami Dolphins

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🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Miami Dolphins fans face a complex legacy: Can Chris Grier’s final draft classes rewrite a silver lining? Kyle Crabbs explores whether recent picks like Patrick Paul, Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips, and De'Von Achane can provide a silver lining to years of draft struggles and missed playoff glory. With the Dolphins entering the Jon-Eric Sullivan era, the pressure is on for homegrown talent and key free-agent additions like Jordan Brooks and Aaron Brewer to stabilize a roster plagued by high turnover. Key discussion points center on Miami’s rebuilding challenges from 2019 to 2025, the future of contributors such as Chop Robinson and Dante Trader, and the importance of developing six-plus reliable starters from the 2024 and 2025 NFL Draft classes. Can this new batch of Dolphins help the team break the cycle of mediocrity?

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0:00.0

The Chris Greer legacy in South Florida is pretty well established, but can time help the last few chapters to age gracefully?

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 Locked on Dolphins. It is your team every day here on the Lacton Network. I'm your host, Cal Crabs, Lifelong Miami Dolphins, fan, host of Lockedon Dolphins, co-host of Lockedonel's,

0:38.1

got an author of Touchdown, Miami on Substack NFL staff writer for A to Z sports. Today's episode, Lockdown, Dolphins is brought to you by CalShe for a limited time, download the CalChee app and use code locked on to get $10 off when you trade 10. Cal She trade on anything. we are talking about everybody's favorite former general manager Chris Greer today on the show.

1:01.5

Not so much Chris himself, right?

1:03.8

Because I'm sure I've lost half of the tuned in audience within the first 30 seconds of mentioning the name Chris Greer on the program

1:12.9

today.

1:13.3

Anyway, not a very popular figure in South Florida.

1:17.5

And rightfully so when you consider the magnitude of the rebuild that the team went

1:22.4

through, surviving multiple head coaches, and ultimately just kind of watching this thing run out of gas,

1:31.9

watching the build kind of have its peak years.

1:38.2

If you start counting in 19, and I understand he was GM by title in 18 or in 16, 17, 17 and 18, but he really had

1:46.1

unquestioned football operation control by title and job responsibility starting in 19.

1:53.4

And year three, year four, year five before you have to start making hard decisions on who

1:59.9

to keep and who to get rid of.

2:01.9

And now you're more of a contending team.

2:04.5

So resources to spend on any given year are a little bit less available than what they are when you tear the whole thing down and you organically get a bunch of high end picks and a bunch of high end draft.

2:17.3

Happen and cap space to work with, right?

2:20.3

You get the year five, that's kind of where the hard decisions have to start taking

2:25.2

place.

2:26.1

And those years for Miami were 22 and 23 with Mike McDaniel.

2:31.4

And that's where we saw kind of the crescendo of the build.

2:34.0

And then the wheels just completely fell off the bus. And that's where we saw kind of the crescendo of the build. And then the wheels

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