The Miami Dolphins will be introducing a brand new offensive line in 2020 — which falls in line with a large portion of the rest of Miami’s roster. The team’s rebuild has been ambitious, aggressive and has brought wholesale change to the Dolphins’ roster versus what it looked like just two years ago at this time. For the offensive line specifically, it hasn’t really matter who has played on the unit in recent years — it has been a constant sore spot.
Miami is hoping that will change starting this season with their embrace of big, powerful maulers up front. But despite the trend towards massive linemen, offensive line coach Steve Marshall indicated yesterday on a media call that the team wasn’t going to be too heavily dependent on a certain style of running the ball.
“We’re going to be multiple. We’ve got good football players up there so that’s where I see it. Right now, we haven’t really even answered that question yet with just walkthroughs and meetings; but we’ll see what direction we go when we start getting the pads on and things like that as far as schematically as far as things like that,” he said.
“We will be multiple in the things that we do. It’s just right now, we’re kind of in the mental phase of it and then we’ll go from there.”
Miami looking to be multiple isn’t necessarily surprising, but the team’s personnel is still going to be skewed more towards downhill running of the football. To pull out wide zone or power sweep against teams with soft play on the perimeter will be useful — but it doesn’t necessarily mean it will become the bread and butter of the offense. It doesn’t need to be, either. The Dolphins would simply welcome competent and consistent play up front.