NFL
If “sex sells,” then the Miami Dolphins would go broke. Nothing about this offseason and upcoming season will be “sexy,” but it needed to happen. In IT terms, this isn’t an unplug it and plug it back in situation. No, this one needs a full hard drive wipe and reset. Of course, it’ll sting when you lose fan favorites such as Jaylen Waddle, but did you expect anything less?
With the amount of time it’s likely going to take to rebuild the Miami Dolphins, they’d be wasting his prime. The Dolphins owed it to Jaylen Waddle to move on and to get a first and third for him? That wouldn’t be an easy decision for a fan, but as a GM who needs job security, this was bound to happen.
It’s tough, it really is. Watching players like Jaylen Waddle out there having fun and making it fun to watch the Dolphins on Sunday, it’s going to be hard to see him go. He deserves better, and so do the fans, and you don’t get there without moving on.
It’s another blemish on the previous regime that has seen the Dolphins move on from guys like Cam Wake, Jarvis Landry, Mike Gesicki, Brent Grimes, and so many more. They’ve no doubt had their fair share of fan favorites, who also bring their share of haters. However, if you zoom out a bit, how many of these players did you love because they were the lone bright spot in dismal years of mediocre football? How many players have the Miami Dolphins drafted were the sole purpose you watched on Sundays, knowing your blood pressure would be up, frustrated with the sloppy play of an underachieving team?
No one wants to lose a player of the caliber of Jaylen Waddle. I get it, you can’t stand to suffer through “yet another rebuild”, but that’s the position the Miami Dolphins are in. They haven’t stripped down to the core in this manner in almost two decades. Great players have come and gone, and the Miami Dolphins have not improved at all. The Dolphins went from one of the winningest teams in sports to one of the worst-built organizations in the league. How the mighty have fallen.
Between the bad contracts, bad drafts, and reaching in free agency, this team wasn’t built to keep players for the long haul. There hasn’t been one player drafted outside of Jaylen Waddle that made you feel like they’d retire a Miami Dolphin. I get it. This one hurts. It’s the end of an era in Miami, but hopefully, it’s the capstone to the end of the era that got them into this mess.
