The Miami Dolphins face intensified pressure to deliver a playoff-winning season to preserve the general manager's tenure. Offseason moves and a renewed emphasis on the draft signal a youth-driven rebuild focused on speed and cohesion. Cornerback depth remains a concern following the trade of a high-profile veteran and other roster adjustments. A visit from a championship NHL franchise highlighted locker-room closeness and shared time as drivers of unity. Team unity is presented as a valuable factor for success, though not the sole explanation for championship results at the highest level.
"The dysfunction stops now," he said way back then. It never stopped, of course. Last season's lack of professionalism and this offseason's purge showed that. It also explained why this is Grier's last stand, as everyone should know. The general-manager-for-life is finally approaching his ninth life and needs a playoff-winning year to stay. You know it. He and coach Mike McDaniel know it.
"Words don't matter," as Grier said Wednesday. So, with such understood stakes, Grier talked about this season: About this retro idea of leaning on the draft; about the questionable cornerback situation; about the trade of disgruntled Jalen Ramsey; and about some obvious roster changes entering this year. "We're younger, we're faster, but I think it's a closer unit," he said.
"They talked about how the uniqueness and closeness of the locker room is so important," Grier said. "And so hearing that again just kind of reiterated everything that we've been talking to the players about, about spending time together. Like you've heard the players talk about, of that 10-day road trip, how they grew together on it, like it was the greatest thing that ever happened."
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