The Miami Dolphins are continuing to make offseason moves to give them the best chance to make a significant run in the AFC in 2024.
Everything was lined up for the Dolphins in early December. The team was 9-3 and seemingly ready to run away with the AFC East crown. But a stretch of three losses in its last five regular-season games derailed Miami’s division title hopes and led to an ugly road playoff loss to the in a brutally cold wild-card game. It continued a troubling season-long trend of Miami struggling against the league’s better teams.
Still, the Miami Dolphins boasted the NFL’s No. 1 offense in yards per game, led by quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and guided by head coach Mike McDaniel. With an explosive offense like that, and assuming a little better injury luck on defense than it had in 2023, this is a team that should continue to win a lot of games. But the first question Miami and general manager Chris Grier must answer this offseason is what to do with Tagovailoa: sign him to his first long-term extension or exercise his fifth-year option and figure out the rest later?
