With great urgency, South Florida is gearing up for the third year of the Mike McDaniel era. Despite making the playoffs the past two seasons, the Miami Dolphins failed to end the longest streak in the league without a postseason victory as they head into 2024.
The Dolphins held a three-day required minicamp last week to wrap up their offseason schedule. The players were asked to hear McDaniel’s parting statement before he left the facility until training camp in late July.
“You try to have them understand what the six weeks and their decisions, how it relates to the overall football team, because you’re not with them every day,” McDaniel said on Thursday. We often work long and hard hours, and individuals do require a healthy balance in their lives. However, there is a significant similarity between that and the current setup, in my opinion, in that how much you get into the preseason—or the season overall—depends on how well you perform for the team during those six weeks.
“What’s the team doing correctly by doing that? That entails being physically prepared for the training camp, as if you
“And then you have different nuances the weekend before all of which make the ability to sustain the shape you’re in plausible – not getting in shape, there’s not enough reps,” McDaniel said. “So illustrating how everything that you are working for on the table, how nothing – you can’t even venture to that journey if those six weeks aren’t appropriately attacked. That’s what I’m really getting at them, because that’s the one thing that everyone is depending on.” The Dolphins and McDaniel both got off to strong starts each of the previous two seasons with three-game winning streaks.
