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I've been building up to this (I know, it's probably not worth it), I'm taking the Michael Holding run up off the boundary rope (anyone who doesn't understand Cricket won't get the reference, but those who do will smile and nod)

Dishonorable mentions... there has to be a few.

James Daniels (or three snaps as he will forever be known in Fins folklore)

It seems a little harsh mentioning Tyreek after suffering a horrible injury, but after his previous Shame of the Year performance, this year was proving to be equally as underwhelming right up to the injury (not to mention the pre-season incidents, and wanting to punch out our head coach). After we cut him. I hope Tyreek gets back to his ultimate goals... lots of online gaming, and realizing unhealthy fantasies with plus size models.



There cannot be a non mention of Jonah Savaiinaea, who was at the rock bottom of most statistical lists for his role as a rookie, specifially OL this year. Despite trading up for this "talent" he was rock bottom for for most, if not all of it. To quote a classic line from the movie Up The Creek:



But that's just a mere entree for the real contenders for the Shame of 2025. Which are all interlinked to their ultimate end together. The unholy trinity of McDaniel, Tua, and Grier.

McDaniel... the least of the three, but that's not saying much. He's earned enough shame nominations from me. He hasn't learned anything. Over the past three years he can't get the plays in quickly enough (and I think he will struggle with the Chargers with that as well). Good luck to him, but I think he's more of a behind the scene design guy than a full pressure come up with something on the fly one... or dealing with alpha males who choose to do their own thing (which are the majority of NFL jocks). When the in-house leaders of this team were let go, he couldn't control the inmates wanting to run the asylum. Oh, and the behind the doors campaign to pay Tua... doesn't look so good right now.

Tua... well you got paid, you got fat before the Pro Bowl and looked like rubbish, took Ozempic, got hit in the head a few times and thought it was OK... until it wasn't. I want to have sympathy for Tua and yet I don't. He's unfit. He sucked.

Right from the moment he worked on his body postseason. The very top professional AFL players here in Australia earn about 1/20th of what Tua does, and the rest a whole lot less. During their last summer preseason breaks (over Xmas here in Australia), they look like this, close enough to zero skin folds and six packs. They actually give a shit about how they show up first day of training, and their condition during the postseason break.




  
Meanwhile, last offseaon Tua was working on a very different body shape:



Really? I'm twice your age, not a professional athlete, not getting paid a fraction of what you're getting, and that is my body.

If Tua could make the throws he could in 2023, some of us could look past that... but no, if not for being benched (and Geno Smith), he would possibly be statistically the worst in the league in 2025.    



But in the immortal words of Highlander... there can be only one.

Chris Grier has to be it. This is the year we truly get how badly he has fucked us over a number of years, leading up to this realization. Our cap is a toxic mess. Our list is gutted. Our next GM and coach barely has a chance to survive this.

After Tua's cut is added, this has to be close to a record of dead money any team has carried into a season. Almost all of those first, second and third round picks during the rebuild have now been written off or gone elsewhere. What a waste of an opportunity. This team is going to take years to be relevant again... and probably long after Ross is dead after bankrolling this disaster.  

If there is any truth to the unconfirmed rumor that Tua has an injury clause payout in his contract (to the tune of $20M), then we have to seriously consider that he is borderline un-tradeable.

With the news today that he's been cut... he was genuinely un-tradable. As anyone with a clue knew before the end of least season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYIUK7Mr0U

Tua just got cut. That's a massive dent now to our salary cap before we sign anyone. Regardless if it's officially pre-June 1st or post that.

Stephen Ross... you're such a financial genius making a truckload of cash in your non-NFL related businesses. How is this team so fucked up?

How do you have such a clown as a GM (and others as cap managers) to wind up with a team with so much dead money and so little talent on the list?

We just wound up with a guaranteed $99M guaranteed cap hit, for a dude who may play on another team (unless he sucks so much he isn't good enough). Either way, are you proud of that?  

We are literally looking at a financial Armageddon and a waste of a bounty of high draft picks engineered by the previous GM for the benefit of... absolutely nothing.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYIUK7Mr0U

Tua just got cut. That's a massive dent now to our salary cap before we sign anyone. Regardless if it's officially pre-June 1st or post that.

Edit. It is going to be a post June - there was no way we could afford a Pre-June, because we literally couldn't financially survive  that move.

According to Joe Rose, we're cutting Tua right now and we're wearing the $99M cap hit over two years (as a post June 1st cut, which will have to go with a cut of Chubb the same day)

Apparently Tua wasn't that upset there was no mention of his birthday on the Dolphins' socials...

Omar Kelly dropped he had a huge birthday bash in the Bahamas (about 1.19 through)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYIUK7Mr0U

He doesn't give a shit about the team, and we don't about him either.

So you know what, fuck it. Tell him he's gonna earn $55M next year either on the sidelines holding a clipboard, or doing his own thing getting ready for another team in 2027.

https://www.si.com/nfl/dolphins/onsi/news/what-ingold-sanders-cut-means-for-dolphins-cap-situation-01kk27xyhj6f

The Fins just cut Sanders and Ingold, which will give us something like $5M in total cap space after these cuts. It ain't much, but I guess it's something.

Ingold just got snapped up by the Chargers on a pretty good deal. Good for him.

Ps. If the the management pay $$$ for Malik Willis, and he bombs out (which will inevitably take rest of the team with him), then this is one and done deal, and we're back at square one this time next year.

If they hitch the whole chariot to this guy for massive contract and he sucks, they can all get the bullet at the next of the season if we wind up close to winless (if not 0-17).

It's not really their fault either... Grier maxed the credit card well before they even got there. They have so little to work with, something like that is a blindfolded throw at a dartboard to hit a bullseye.

Grier absolutely fucked us. If not for the good grace of Armstead and Chubb taking restructured deals this time last year we were absolutely fucked. As it turns out, Armstead lost nothing, and Chubb gambled on an incentive based deal which he reached, but because the rest of the defense sucked, he didn't get paid.

It was an awful situation they walked into, according to the media they knew the minefield they were about to tip-toe into. But you can forgive so much...

If they are frugal because of what they walked into and it goes south enough to reach Antarctica... you can give some leeway. But if they spend over market value on a pet-project like Willis and it doesn't work in 12 months?

Ps. If the the management pay $$$ for Malik Willis, and he bombs out (which will inevitably take rest of the team with him), then this is one and done deal, and we're back at square one this time next year.

If they hitch the whole chariot to this guy for massive contract and he sucks, they can all get the bullet at the next of the season if we wind up close to winless (if not 0-17).

Any attempt to move Tua is going to make the cap situation (or our draft situation, or both) worse, not better.

That's the simple fact a lot of people can't seem to get their heads around.

Keeping Tua on the list sucks, but it's a done deal and part of what we are already prepared for as a sunk cost, regardless of if he plays a down or not... moving him on before 2027 will cost us a lot more. I cannot emphasize that enough - it will cost us a LOT more. Cap space, draft picks, quality players we will have to cut to make the magic number: it will cost us heavily of at least one or a number of those things.  

The hilariously funny (in a tragic way) thing is, when you think of how little cap space we have, the best option of getting someone like Malik Willis (it's not gonna happen anyway) is by keeping Tua on the list and using that $40M we save from not releasing him to pay for it. Crazy but true!

Otherwise, just forget about it. I mean really forget about any notion of it. Cutting Tua will put us so far into the red and we're cutting other players just to sign the draftees and any other bums we get off the street to make up a team list.