The NFL has begun their offseason process in a majority of buildings across the league. And with so many teams now transitioned into the offseason mode, we’ve begun to see the kind of franchise overhauls and resets that are an inevitable and unenviable part of life in the NFL. Whether you’re bad and in need of starting over or good and unable to hold onto the pieces that helped you become that way, it’s called “Not For Long” for a reason.
But for the Miami Dolphins, it appears as though the team will continue to receive a reprieve from the waves of NFL teams that come calling and hope to strip away pieces of Miami’s formula. Because as the NFL sees hires spring up across the league, there’s no attachment to the Miami Dolphins whatsoever.
There’s no peep of interest in Dolphins assistant general manager Marvin Allen. There’s been hardly so much as a murmur about Reggie McKenzie, who serves in a senior role in Miami’s front office. These are accomplished, well respected members of the scouting world. And they’re had a hand in one of the NFL’s most impressive turnaround stories of 2020. And yet there’s seemingly no interest from the teams on the outside to see Miami’s formula taken elsewhere to help someone else with a rebuild.
That should be perfectly fine for the Dolphins. But as teams across the league continue to press and look for answers to their own front office questions, maybe they’ll sooner or later work their eyes to what’s going on in South Florida with the Dolphins. Both McKenzie and Allen are at least deserving of some interviews as a part of the hiring process. But for 2021, it appears as though Miami will make it through the league’s front office changes without seeing some of their talent plucked to start up rebuilds elsewhere.