The Miami Dolphins are set to look drastically different this coming NFL season under first-year head coach Jeff Hafley. And according to one former Dolphins quarterback, Hafley may very well be in line for a historically rude awakening to coaching at the NFL level. Hafley has been tasked to coach this Dolphins team from the ground up after most of the core of the team departed this offseason, including the likes of Tua Tagovailoa, Jaylen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb, and Minkah Fitzpatrick.
It will now be on Malik Willis, who joins Hafley from the Green Bay Packers, to lead this Dolphins team and help lift an incredibly inexperienced wide receiving corps in Miami to exceed expectations. Former Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick isn't optimistic that he will be able to do that. On the most recent episode of his podcast, Fitzpatrick shared his incredibly bold prediction for how the Dolphins 2026 season will go, claiming that the Dolphins may go winless this coming season if they drop their first game of the season on Sunday against the Las Vegas Raiders.
"If the Dolphins lose to the Raiders in Vegas on Sunday, I think they are gonna go 0-17 this year," said Fitzpatrick. "I think they will be the first team in NFL history to go 0-17." Explaining his prediction, Fitzpatrick mentioned how the Dolphins' dead cap of $182 million being paid to players no longer on the team and a first-year head coach could be the recipe for a historically bad season. "Look at the way their roster is constructed," Fitzpatrick added.
Because they have the most dead cap in NFL history, $182 million dollars. The salary cap is $300 million dollars. Tua (Tagovailoa), Tyreek (Hill), (Jaylen) Waddle, Bradley Chubb, Jalen Ramsey, Minkah Fitzpatrick.
They are all on the books. They are just all on different teams. You have got a first-year head coach in Jeff Hafley.
I'm excited to see what he does there. But he had already come out and said the season is not gonna be measured in wins and losses. That's a tough statement." Only time will tell whether Fitzpatrick's prediction ends up coming true.
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