In last evening’s Phinsider Question Of The Day, I asked: What is your way too early bold prediction for the upcoming 2025 offseason, season, or both?
Below are some of your thoughts and answers-
Miami7 sees another wash/rinse/repeat kinda season.
8-9/9-8….more of the same – whether IOL is improved or not; Billdo’s woes; +.500 opponent woes; Cold weather woes; Mid-level QB woes; Pressurized games/late season woes; Game plan & clock mgt. woes; Charmin locker room woes; Tyreek drama woes; Grier pushin more $ out woes; Grier draft board woes; Ross awareness woes
MiMiami is predicting what I expect would result in the start of yet another rebuild.
I think Grier and McDaniel both get canned after Week 13 during next season. Miami kicks off the head coaching carousel of the year.
Jptapt sees things about the same as Miami7.
Off-season: Offensive line still doesn’t improve; Training camp: more music than laps; Season 9-8
EJPLAYA says it will be boom or bust!
I’m betting on an extreme either way. We could find a couple really good guards and solidify that line and go 12-4 and host a playoff game. We could also bomb in that effort and be in the same boat, Tua gets injured again due to no protection, and the team gives up 2/3rds of the way through the season and MM and Grier are both canned. I hope Grier realizes his ability to address this line is the determining factor in which one it is.
Mrcogburn believes things will go from bad to worse.
Dolphins don’t crack .500. Mr Ross, from his assisted living penthouse, fires Grier and McDaniel and hires Rex Ryan as HC and his wife as a foot model.
dedstrk316 wants you to know that you heard it here first! Another trophy for South Florida!
My bold prediction? Super Bowl champs baby! What? You didn’t say it had to be based in reality.
Alley Gator has Smythe getting a touchdown and some other random stuff going down.
Dolphins ignore the line and take yet another Edge rusher in first round. They let Holland go then move Cam Smith to safety next to Poyer. Grier drafts two guards, but not until the 6th and 7th round. Hill is traded to the Bills in the off season. Tua goes concussion free but retires with a hip injury. New backup Mac Jones finishes the season at QB. McDaniel wears a skort to a post-game presser and is fired the next day. Bill Belichick is having a losing season in North Carolina, but Ross tries to hire him mid-season and gets charged with tampering. We lose our 2026 first round pick. Playing the Pats for last place in the division, we receive a Christmas Miracle! No, not a win, it’s a Smythe touchdown!
toscana jones has the team winning enough games to make it to the playoffs again.
My bold prediction for 2025: Dolphins win 10 or more games once again.
Dr.Greenthumb has THIS GUY as our next GM/Starting QB!
Grier gets fired and gets replaced with a high IQ chipmunk. Chipmunk makes several trade downs in the draft while drafting three offensive linemen who become elite day one starters. Chipmunk makes wise signings to round out our team. Tua leads us to a 13-2 record before a brutal Hit to his hip resulting in a sprained pinky for McDaniel, both are out for the season Having no other options, chipmunk takes over as our starting QB and leads us to a dominating Super Bowl run. We rename the team The Miami chipmunks and win 7 of the next 9 Superbowls. Fat on the gluttony of so many wins, the decades of ineptitude fade into a hazy memory. People forget that dolphins even exist on this planet. After retiring, chipmunk runs for president and establishes world peace….
Dolfanjoe sees us making the playoffs after selling out but being in just about the same place mentally, this time next year.
Grier and McD will do anything they can to win this upcoming year ! Buy sell trade and sellout this teams future for the next 4 to 5 years to do it ! They will kick the can down the road as far as salary cap. Turn cap problems into bonus money they can kick down the road. Remember Suh ? Only paid him for 3 years while he was on another team ! More draft picks ? How about we take next years # 1 and get a 3 – 4 – 6 – 7 to a team that just had to have that fist rounder ! New free agents , lots of draft picks. 9 – 8 just make the playoff’s, get knocked out in the first playoff game. Now its the end of 25 and we are wondering will they keep Grier and McD ?
finfanfromsiam has Miami finally knocking off the Buffalo Bills.
Way early and bold? Dolphins win the division!
DalFinsFan has the team looking for a new kicker and punter.
New ST coach gets rid of Bailey and Sanders cause they are not “his” guys and for cap savings. Mostert and Smythe cut, TA retires. Chubb leaves with an injury settlement. CC returns if Weaver stays.
Bill Moody knows what we all sort of know. Fix the O-line before anything will get better.
Bold Prediction: We finally assemble a top 10 O-Line, we break our play-off loss streak. If we don’t fix the line, then we are right back here asking the same questions as to what went wrong.
scrwal believes that the Cheetah will be traded away.
Reek gets traded for a 2nd which is used on a WR. Draft goes IDL, IOL, S, QB , OT – first four rounds or FA we get IOL and S then draft may go OT , IDL, WR, QB, LB
Francesco ITA sees things going one of two ways. Sadly, the latter may be the better choice in the long term.
small reset (some stars remain, like hill-chubb-armstead-holland) 8 wins; big reset (cap dump-off year) 4-5 wins
SlayerNation1 sees this team sort of spinning its wheels due to cap issues.
Bold Prediction: Weaver is named Interim HC somewhere around Thanksgiving. Grier fires McDaniel as a desperate move to not go down with the ship.
Miami finishes 3rd in the division. Don’t look now, but NE and NYJ are not resting on the status quo.
I sort of understand running this mess back due to the contracts/extensions. The Contract PEZ Dispenser that Ross had installed at the training facility next to the Fun Slide is, alas, empty.
dolfan52 is our second prediction for another Lombardi to be delivered to So-Flo.
Behind the scenes we have made the deal to get Russel wilson for letting them have skylar. Then we get 5 offensive linemen undrafted free agents all massive 340 pounders and we hve the most feared line in the league. Tua has time to pass whenever he wants and one game he had enough time to eat a bag of potatoe chips before he throws a td pass to Smyth for 90 yards. We win the division and then go all the way and win the superbowl undefeated.
Well, that was all over the place. There are a lot of doom and gloom and not-so-bold predictions to go with the “yeah, we wish” ones. Thank you, as always, to everyone who took the time to answer our question of the day. Please join us tomorrow evening for our next question of the day post.