Finsmob Unleashed

The first name to fall was an expected one, WR Tyreek Hill who very may not play for any team this season as he still has at least one more surgery and then of course rehab from that procedure. We heard Bradley Chubb’s name as well but he’s yet to be officially cut. A trade seems unlikely, Chubb is currently #11 in salary at his position which is a problem for a 30 year old pass rusher who was tied for 20th in sacks in 2025, and didn’t play in 2024. Teams will just wait for the inevitable cut rather than surrendering a valuable draft pick. These are the obstacles Sully is faced with while trying to improve the roster. Former Dolphins GM Chris Grier has left this team with a mess, and Jon Eric-Sullivan was hired to clean it up. Clean it up he will, but patience is necessary from the fanbase.

In case you didn’t know, NFL Free Agency precedes the Draft by a good month and change, as March 9th will be the day NFL Free Agency begins. More importantly for us, however is the NFL Combine which is just 3 days away, beginning on Sunday February 23 through March 2nd. Our roster will be chock full of drafted, and undrafted players from this upcoming draftand you can expect us to pick low level free agents at a few positions as well to fill in. Sully will have to be prudent while we’re all patient. You can’t realistically expect Sully and Haf to turn it all around in one season. I think the 2027 season we can expect improvement as we will have had 2 drafts to turn over some of the roster as well as having some cap space in ’27 to improve the roster some.

The Malik Willis to Miami talk never stops. I personally think that would be a mistake. We have Quinn Ewers, and we can add another QB in this draft and find an inexpensive veteran QB to round out the QB room and have a nice little competition there. Hey! What about Tua? What about him! All signs point to his exodus, whether it’s via some kind of unlikely trade or a very painful cut which will cost a monumental $99M!!! Even if we somehow find a trade partner we will have to absorb a major chunk of Tua’s salary. It’s the mistake that keeps on giving! Those of you faithful readers know and remember how I railed against giving him that contract and wanted to play him on his 5th year option. It doesn’t matter now, what’s done is done, we just have to take the pain and move on from the mistake that hopefully taught us how NOT to do things. I feel like signing Malik Willis would be a similar mistake, not as costly as Tua obviously, but a big mistake regardless. We should be in good position to draft a QB next year and there should be at least 5 first round QB’s such as Arch Manning, Dante Moore, Julian Sayin, LaNorris Sellers, DJ Lagway, Brendan Sorsby and Jyden Maiavia. Not all of these QB’s will be first round picks, but the point is that next season’s draft will be ripe with options, where this year’s draft has one legit 1st RD prospect that will be going #1 to either the Raiders or some team that pays a kings ransom to to the Raiders.

I’m excited about the combine, I haven’t really dove into the prospects yet, but once the combine gets going, I’ll really get into it and find my list of players I hope we get. The positions we need are everywhere, but I think priorities should be EDGE, CB, WR, OL, S and not necessarily in that order. All are important, premium positions, and since we cut Tyreek and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, and looks like Bradley Chubb is next either via trade or cut, and Chop Robinson is our only EDGE rusher. At CB, we don’t really have a starter on the roster, so don’t be surprised if EDGE or CB is RD 1. The fact that Grier traded up for a complete dud so far in LG Jonah Savaiinaea, and he picked up a dud that played 3 snaps in James Daniels who was also cut, you can see how we may be busy on the O-line as well. Thanks Chris Grier, you fucked us dry you dirty dog! It’s a mess, but I’m confident Sully will be the right man to right the ship here, and Godspeed to him in doing so!

GO DOLPHINS!!!