Miami Dolphins enter final month of season with fans still focused on draft

The Miami Dolphins have five games left and the last month of the regular season has finally arrived but fans are still focused on the draft.

To be quite honest, this season has gone by rather quickly. We were supposed to be in for a long season but instead, the only thing long about was listening to the continued rant on social media and the obsession over who the Miami Dolphins should draft.

This year has actually been pretty good if we are going to look ourselves in the mirror and not lie. This season was supposed to be a winless tank job that was going to be brutally ugly. It started out that way with a disgusting blowout loss to the Ravens to open the season.

The following week was only marginally better, and the same can be said about the next three games but along that opening month of football, the team that was supposed to be the league doormat, suddenly made other teams start preparing for them.

Miami didn’t start to win but they started winning the battles. Miami owned the first half in almost every game this season with the exception of week one. They played well out of the tunnel at the half as well. It was the fourth quarter that youth and inexperience took over and Miami lost.

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This season has shown us that some of these undrafted players may actually work out, this season showed us that a guy some fans loved, Kiko Alonso, was easily replaced by a guy that everyone loves, Vince Biegel. It showed us that Miami wasn’t playing games and if you didn’t like how things were changing, Minkah Fitzpatrick, you were out of here.

The Dolphins look to have found a quality head coach but we all thought the same thing when Tony Sparano took the team to the playoffs after a 1-15 season. The same with Adam Gase in 2016. I’ll hold my final judgment on Flores until year three.

As the final month of football plays out, the focus by the team should be evaluations ahead of the off-season. The focus in the front office should have already shifted to the off-season and next year’s draft.

Fans will continue to root for the last five weeks but there is no chance at the post-season and as a result, stress levels are pretty much non-existent right now. Well, except for the obsessing crowd and the draft pick slots. That too will be known when December gives way to 2020.