The Miami Dolphins secondary is going to look like a whole new unit after the 2020 offseason. Miami spent aggressively to upgrade the pieces in the back-end of the defense; which figures to be the team’s identity given the investments made and the background of several key coaches — including Brian Flores and new defensive coordinator Josh Boyer.
And, to celebrate the Dolphins’ vision of a fearsome secondary, the Dolphins’ media team dropped a fantastic hype video to celebrate the “monsters” prowling around in the secondary for Miami. We guarantee you’ll be ready for some Miami Dolphins football after seeing what the team has cooked up.
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— Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) July 22, 2020
Some of the best defenses and defensive units over time have earned themselves nicknames. The most recent universal nickname for a defensive group is Seattle’s ‘Legion of Boom’, which brought headaches to opposing offenses each week in the mid-2010s. In a perfect world, Miami’s core identity in the secondary leads to play worthy of a nickname of their own — in which case there’s probably significant team success ahead. The NFL, now more than ever, is a passing league. Miami seems to have embraced the value of coverage over the value of pass rush — with both units touting the same endgame of shutting down opposing quarterbacks.
After years of Cameron Wake and a cast of complimentary players around him here in Miami, perhaps this is the right move to upgrade the Dolphins’ defense and finally get them to a point where they can consistently rank among the league’s better coverage defenses. We’ll get our first taste of the Dolphins in just over seven weeks — as the NFL’s season is scheduled to open on Thursday night seven weeks from today.