ESPN predicts that the Miami Dolphins will finish last

The Miami Dolphins are expected to rebuild their team this off-season and next and ESPN believes it will be enough for the Dolphins to finish last in 2019.

In a piece titled NFL experts predict: Answering 2019 offseason’s biggest questions, ESPN says the Miami Dolphins are the most likely team to have the first pick in next years NFL Draft. This really isn’t much of a surprise given the fact that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross basically said the team was going to rebuild.

Typically when teams rebuild they are not expected to finish very high in the standings and the Dolphins really are no different. From talk of tanking to target a quarterback, the Dolphins are trying to get their salary cap situation under control. To do so the Dolphins will have to make big decisions on several veterans. Veterans that are on the roster and some that are impending free agents.

Dolphins fans are going to have to get used to the off-season predictions and the forthcoming pre-season, pre-camp, pre-everything power rankings that will be out as well. Simply put if the owner of the Dolphins does not have high expectations for this season and possibly 2020 as well, why should anyone else?

Brian Flores has been given a five-year fully guaranteed contract. That is something Ross has not done in his previous two coaching hires with Joe Philbin and Adam Gase but he realizes that in order to give Flores time to develop the team with the changes, time is going to be necessary.

Free agency and the league new year begins on March 13th and the Dolphins are not expected to be heavy players in the early stages of the off-season meat market focusing more energy on improving the team through the draft. They will have to add players in free agency at some point but not likely big contract players.