Episode 383: Dolphins Getting Healthy, Trade Talk

Miami Dolphins on SI Publisher Alain Poupart (@PoupartNFL) is joined by Chris Perkins from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel to discuss the Dolphins getting healthy, all sorts of trade speculation, and much more. Make sure to follow Alain on Twitter at @PoupartNFL and read his stories on Miami Dolphins on SI at si.com/nfl/dolphins.

[@rickyticky9221]

Draft Cam Ward for some hope! Plus some O-line help!

[@josephbell7648]

Getting the veteran backup for Tua would have been a great plan for last year and this year but we’ll be going into year 6 with Tua. We’re not going to a a SB next year riding with Tua. It’s time to move off of that and draft a QB in round 1. Time to get out of the delusion that Tua and MM and this current rebuild is taking us to a SB.

[@Quay33]

Im so happy our fanbase is getting smarter 👏🏽👏🏽🐬🐬… Your absolutely right.

[@josephbell7648]

@@Quay33 you can stop the bullshit. I’ve been smart.

[@Quay33]

@@josephbell7648 nigga how tf would i know u always had this take? I said the Fanbase

[@josephbell7648]

I think where Perk is miss it on these “potential trades” is that he keeps saying “if you’re gonna win a SB…”. But the point is, this is clearly not a SB team and people are proposing these trades for the future of this team.

[@justinmartin665]

Always a great listen fellas!

[@akaris1]

loads of fun guys thanks! keep it up

[@miamifla3059]

Ross not firing Grier is incredible to me .

[@drewstar412]

How so? Poupart, Perk, and the rest have said time and time again, why Ross may never fire Grier. Grier is the ultimate survivor. He picks the players that coaches want (for the most part) so it deflects the blame from him. I don't like it, but that is the truth. So, the Fins are always stuck in this nasty cycle.

[@tonyharrison7852]

Keep Running the ball and we win!

[@SaintMichael-js5kh]

Grier has missed on way too many players in the first three rounds of the draft. He has got to go! I’m not letting that bum trade ANY players/picks. He’s done enough damage to this franchise. Why is the team so injury prone? McDaniel is way too soft on these players and they’re taking advantage of him. Any little bump or bruise and these guys are sitting out of practice. This team, as constructed, will not win a damn thing.

[@HawgWyldFishing]

If you were the GM or coach, I’m sure it would be so much better. I’m positive that the Dolphins would be 20-0 every season and be the toughest, least injured team in the sport every year.

[@bradwilliams4344]

i agree, whole team, made of porcelin

[@SaintMichael-js5kh]

@@HawgWyldFishing - You’re correct.

[@jaahnnn]

We haven't had alot of 1st rd picks lately but he hit on minka Wilkins and waddle. Everyone wanted Tua at the time so that's not his fault

[@jaahnnn]

Jalen Phillips too. He has a pretty good hit rate lately actually. Yall just say anything

[@UlisesS-t4l]

The Phins actually regressed this season. Their window was open last year...that thing is closed tight and shuttered now. There's no reason to continue to plug holes in a sinking ship. The roster was built from outside in instead of the other way around. Skilled position players are shiny objects, but the game is won and lost in the trenches. Chris Grier built a paper tiger.

[@zenman1001]

Agreed. Grier has put this team into a doom loop.

[@drewstar412]

The Fins didn't have a window last year either! How many of kept saying, the OLINE is the issue?? And Grier laughed at us. This year, that has become the biggest narrative from the get-go. We may disagree but, for this fan, I never believe the Fins window was last year or the year before. They didn't do enough to show me, that they could take the next step. EVEN if they still had Wilkins, AVG, and Hunt this year, ALONG with the talent they brought in, still does not put then in the window. It starts with the OLine, and then, the playcalling to run the ball consistently (Maybe if Armstead & Wynn could stay healthy for a season, Brewer at Center, Hunt at RG with A Jackson at RT, then we are talking but we never will see that. As we know, it's not Madden). I blame Grier and McDaniel. We all know how movie will end this year. Fins Up!

[@UlisesS-t4l]

@@drewstar412 That smug reply of his has not aged well for sure!

[@michaellombardo7788]

Thanks guys great show c u next time ❤

[@andrewbrown3070]

Great show guys!

[@FritzFrank]

Thanks for the content

[@bradwilliams4344]

i see nothing about this team ,that has me excited about the future

[@rthompson624]

U want a backup qb like Tua, Perk? Ok, we'll look for a pudgy, slow, weak-armed, concussion-prone qb on the waiver wire. Great idea!

[@Quay33]

Perk is an idiot 😂. Is he watching the terrible performance from Tua since last December 🤔

[@Mememememe23]

No we’re looking for the nfl leading passer, nfl highest qb rating, pro bowl playing,quick release, most accurate qb in the NFL’s type qb. Not easy to find. As for concussion prone why don’t you go ask Mahomes about his 3 concussions, 2 in one year, and get the chiefs to draft his replacement?

[@drewstar412]

Slow? LOL...Tua has one of the fastest releases in the league, my guy. He is accurate and read defenses well too. Weak armed..well, a lot of QBs are weak armed. Not every QB can have a Dan Marino arm, so lets not act like there is a lot of QB who have Chad Pennington had the label of weak arm, but he had one of highest pass to completion ratios. Tua last year, lead the league at one point in pass completions. I normally don't promote channels but Phinside the NFL and Ryder McConville both do a super good no nonsense film breakdown of Tua's passes. They both take down that fake narrative on Tua. Fins Up!

[@josephbell7648]

I think we’re Perk is miss it on these “potential trades” is that he keeps saying “if you’re gonna win a SB…”. But the point is, this is clearly not a SB team and people are proposing these trades for the future of this team.

[@rthompson624]

Reading the comments here is so much better than the actual podcast. Lol. The fans know more than the podcasters. Sad.

[@jerrymolinari9001]

I do not have faith Tua will complete this season. We need to draft a Qb. next year.

[@clight4483]

If we’re 2-6, we should be sellers

[@armandocuba5363]

A rare disagreement with Perk here. You don't look to draft a good QB high knowing your current QB is injury prone but your back up is an over 40 year old Flacco or Andy Daulton? I'm sorry, are Tua's injuries moving forward supposed to miraculously subside? Wouldn't you want to groom a QB who could eventually take over once Tua's contract ends? You can make the argument that this team can actually do both. Veteran journeyman & draft a QB high.

[@Quay33]

🎉🐬

[@drewstar412]

Good Point. This team's is very short sighted in that dept. I think this team tried to do this with Skylar Thompson, but let's keep it real. Skylar was a projected 7th to UDFA prospect. Fins could have had Brock Purdy, WHO was projected a late 3rd to high 4th round, to 7th rounder prospect. It just depended on the system he is in. There was an article that I read, that said, Purdy would fit in McDaniel's type system. yet, the Fins opted for a play who was not being projected to be draft. That is silly. And to add insult to injury, the Fins signed Mike White who really didn't show much. A very bad signing.

[@davidwilson3806]

Hope springs eternal. Phinsup.

[@_bhanana_]

Tua gone via trade? 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@moeazizi]

Great show. Fins are going nowhere even when Tua comes back. He was atrocious in the last 7 games he's played. Fire everybody and trade Hill, Ramsey and anyone that can get us better than a 4th rounder. Fins are a dumpster fire and McStupid sucks as bad as Tua.

[@lonkool25]

Slow your roll son … take a breath

[@drewstar412]

Yout want to trade everyone and then complain about the all the dead money and Grier is in charge of another rebuild??. You can't have it both ways, my guy. you want to hit the reset button, when it's not time. IF the Fins were to probably address the Oline, develop players and stick to the draft, which means trading down and getting more draft picks, could right this ship.

[@bigmikebaby85]

Let's Go!! 🔥

[@mwgreene1]

Thanks guys great podcast as always but poop gotta ask what is that cap u r always wearing?

[@prettyboyfpv7740]

The whole idea that we need to find a quarterback that can do quick reads is b*******. No other team has their offense playing the style of football. And that's why everybody else has a better shot than us as far as going to the Super bowl. We need to completely cash out on Tua let us go and continue to build an offense that has pro style. Huntley has shown us that he has trended upwards and his first two games. And even got us to win as bad as it looked he got us to win something that two of us not doing the first two games. Let's be real we were one punch out away from being 0 and 2 with Tua starting off this season. And let's tie that into last year where he went 0 and 5 at the end of the season

[@Quay33]

🐬🐬✅

[@lalocisneros4687]

Chris Perkins you need to stop it this team has no Super Bowl aspirations it has more holes than a block of Swiss cheese

[@markm9282]

Fire Chris Grier. Period.

[@lalocisneros4687]

An Allen you are so stale Teddy Bridgewater are you kidding me

[@InFinZible]

Teddy bridgewater looked better than anything we have now as a backup I agree poup

[@prettyboyfpv7740]

I must say this if Tyler Huntley can come into our office and take us to 2 in 1 under him especially if he had turned it up or did in his gameplay. This dude had made a big jump from game one to game two. Let's not forget he was only in this offense for less than a week when he came out and game won game two he looked a lot better with the week to practice under his belt. Yes he missed a lot of Keith Rose but who is expected to get in sync with water and Hill with less than a month of practice. So what I'm saying is if he comes out and he looks a lot better I would much rather see where Huntley ceiling is at as compared to tua that we already know

[@robertmeza3501]

I consider Perk “neutral”.

[@Quay33]

Not even neutral. He’s definitely a Chris Grier plant

[@josephbell7648]

Poop brings up the 1-4 team from 2016 that turned the season around and made the playoffs. The question I would ask is, did that team make the SB? Did that team win any playoff games? It’s not about just making the playoffs. We in the “doom and gloom crowd” is noticing some core issues of this team. As you pointed out, this team hast been good since last year in the Jets game. Coming into the season, I believed this team was a 7 win team. They’ve done nothing to address the issues that made them unable to beat good teams last year and this team simply looks worse this year. That’s what it’s all about. I’m not interested in watching a team that is hoping for everyone else in the AFC is bad enough so that we can scrap up enough wins to make the playoffs just for the sake of making the playoffs. Or, to win enough games to miss the playoffs but win too many games to be out of the top 10 draft picking order.

[@robb5289]

Miami Dolphins will never win a Super Bowl with Grier as the GM. I hope Steven Ross understands that.

[@ngutz117]

Please don’t say to resign Skylar , come on Perk you haven’t seen enough, please!

[@pluggedup8103]

Y’all and Doug are the real dolphin KZbinrs. Optimistic and factual all in one is good fans.

[@lalocisneros4687]

Don't let these guys fool you they are full of shit this team was horribly built and has holes everywhere

[@jessedraeger1221]

@@lalocisneros4687 Sounds like you are projecting and are really talking about your DNA structure.

[@Quay33]

There’s Being optimistic and being brutally honest. There is a time for both. Right now is the time to be brutally honest. Tua is not reliable in big games GM is a failure and owner doesn’t care.

[@willvazquez3218]

Teddy Bridgewater wasn’t even an option. He is very happy as head coach at Northwestern high school. It is really hard for an NFL player to get a good job after retiring. He’s not gonna give that up to play one year as a back up and make a couple bucks. Plus, it would make him look real bad in the high school. And Teddy is just not that type of guy. He’s a standup gentleman who gave his word to Northwestern.

[@InFinZible]

If I could have cam ward and his high ceiling as a backup I’m taking that risk ALLL day over a “proven” backup with a low ceiling. Sorry perk. The hope is we don’t pick low enough anyway and draft oline like we should

[@moeazizi]

Wish we had Purdy. We picked Skylar ahead of Purdy. Why? Fins suck at drafting whereas the Niners, even with their huge misses on Lance and Solomon Thomas are always tops in the NFC. McStupid rode Shanahans coattails and landed here bc not one other team bothered to interview him. Grier is an idiot.

[@jskully9784]

I don't think it's necessarily Purdy. The 49ers coaching staff is leaps and bounds better at developing and holding players accountable than our staff. Kyle can't hold a lead to save his life but they are good a drafting and developing over there. If we would have drafted Purdy he'd probably look like Skylar

[@moeazizi]

​@@jskully9784No way he'd look like Skylar. Purdy is a stud. He reads defenses very well, hes accurate as hell, he can scramble, he can create time, he goes through progressions like a seasoned top vet. Hes better than Tua by a mile so yeah, hes 100x better than Skylar whos an idiot buffoon.

[@theragingdolphinsmaniac4696]

Fantasy football had done more to screw up fandom because everybody has some harebrained ideas about a trade and created unrealistic expectations for players and team.

[@patchreefs]

When has anything the Dolphins management has done made SENSE???????????????????????????

[@jskully9784]

Perk on drugs iif he thinks this team will sniff a playoff next year. Now I wouldn't trade for a Bryce young, not cuz of the price of a conditional 4th but his stature and skillset. He gives me Pat White vibes. We need to draft a qb high to develop to be back up and or a replacement for Tua. Scared money don't make money. Jimmy G helped the 49ers to the superbowl in 2020, they gave us a haul to trade up to take trey lance, they then got rid of trey lance after 2yrs. Jared Goff had good run to the superbowl in 2019, then was mid for a couple of yrs they got him up outta there for Matt Stafford. Broncos paid russ big money and still moved on and got another qb. GB drafting Rodgers while Brett was in his prime, then drafting Love with MVP Aaron Rodgers. The nfl is litered with examples of teams drafting or trading for qbs to early rather than too late and they're usually the successful franchises. Then there's the Dolphins who are scared to draft true competition for the qb, and it's not just Tua they did the same thing with Ryan Tannehill. And I was a Tannehill fan and new they should of drqft D or brought in some real competition. We don't need no old middle of the road qb as a back up, the time for that was last yr and this yr.

[@rthompson624]

Lol. I thought the same thing when Perkins was talking about getting Joe Flacco for the "Super Bowl run" next year. These two bloggers/reporters are clueless, but what else do we have to listen to? At least Patriots fans have intelligent media people discussing their crappy team. We just have the crappy team. Lol.

[@jskully9784]

@@rthompson624 Poupart is OK for the most part, I rarely disagree with his perspectives. Perk on the other hand, just loses me.

[@rthompson624]

@@jskully9784 I agree that Poupart's football IQ is better than Perk's. My main issue with Poupart is that he is too afraid to say things he thinks some portion of the fan base will have a problem with. I like my sports guys to have conviction.

[@savr1200gs]

Why would Chubb come back anytime soon when he knows he's not on the team next season. 🤷

[@noahcrawley]

🐬⬆

[@chicoplasmapea8661]

Ok...here's where I think I disagree with the trade convos...(all of which I agree with except this)...outside of the why would Dallas want to trade him, good point) ...but if so, why not? If mc'd thinks he works. The idea wud not be that he comes in and immediately supplants Huntley as #2...but wat if he can b groomed as the #2 of the future? So scrap Boyle & skylar...implant snoop & lance. I'm good with that for a 5th...if mc'd thinks he's a scheme fit...which neither snoop or Skylar or Boyle currently are...thoughts?

[@joec8942]

Yo fellas if this offense is so difficult to learn then why has the rest of the NFL figured it out?

[@triniamills2065]

😂Miami dolphins need a new qb 2025 draft 🤔 😮🎉❤

[@BillyBatsonMarvel]

Holland should bench himself due to injury. The 🐬will make him look bad this season. Super Bowl hopes? Perk you are the man but come on? The 🐬best chance of winning anything was the AFC EAST CHAMPIONSHIP. Tua and Co. Royally fumbled the division. The Super Bowl math is not “mathing”. The Grier, Flores, Tua and Tuaneers era is OVER… I’m definitely not caught up in the moment and I see the totality of this 💩show. The Bills are my barometer / metric in which I measure the 🐬success possibility since Flores. The Dolphins are not even competitive against the Bills. I’ve seen enough 🐬🆙 Unless I hear some coach Gruden news. I’m living in 🐬reality since the 90’s.

[@jaahnnn]

Trey lance cant even win the backup job in dallas

[@drewstar412]

Mr Pourpart, can you please stop the smacking when you start and stop talking? It sounds like you got an audio issue. Appreciate it.

[@Cubanogangster33]

The Miami dolphins have scored 60 points in 5 games this season and the tight ends have zero touchdowns in the last 2 years 😢😢😢 Ronald McDonald the clown 🤡🤡😭 has to be fired along with Chris Grier I don't care if he has naked pictures of Stephen Ross. Tiny tua will be concussed and forced to retire before the season is done #bookit

[@drewstar412]

Mr Pourpart! Very poor quality! And No Prog music...even more poor quality. Jk. Yes, rest up, Mr Pourpart. All this buzz with the Fins, it's not good for health nor mental health. And you have tons of info to get out that seems to go a million miles a minute. Always enjoy when you collab with Chris Perkins. My BIGGEST issues are the ads that cut or you and your guests thoughts. It's like the timing is just the worse. Just heard "The Hawk's Nest" do "behind enemy lines" do a one and half hour stream..like ONLY FOUR ads, both were under 2 mins AND it was two at the beginning of the stream and two at the end of the stream. YOU had a NEAR ONE HOUR AD for this vid! That is unacceptable KZbin! You literally destroyed this stream. Knock off the garbage. You literally encourage fans to skip the ads and not get the content creator to get paid. I may get hate for it, but I'd rather there be a channel member option where I would get ZERO ads, and I'd pay for the content creator. My whole issue is out of ALL the KZbin Channels I follow, All Dolphins Podcast is the WORST with the ads. Apologies to you, Mr Pourpart. Fins Up!

[@TheOtto09]

It’s a joke poupart still thinks Bridgewater would’ve been good given a line…. This guy has no idea what he’s saying he’s throwing up hypothetical garbage.

[@alldolphinspodcast]

It's a joke you don't know the difference between hypotheticals and projections. Or that you can decide what Bridgewater could or could not have been when he never played as much as three quarters in any game for Miami.

[@rthompson624]

@@alldolphinspodcast His point is ur choice of subject matter. I felt the same way. Who the heck cares about Teddy Bridgewater now? Talk about the hard decisions ahead of the Dolphins. Firing Grier and somehow moving away from the insanely stupid contract he gave to Tua that u reporters sat around applauding.

[@alldolphinspodcast]

@@rthompson624 Oy, guess I need to explain things again. First, I only brought up Bridgewater to push back against the notion the Dolphins automatically fall apart without Tua. It's never quite as simple as that. Second, please leave me out of the "u reporters" who sat around applauding the Tua contract when I said repeatedly on the podcast and wrote before AND after the extension that I would have had him play on the fifth-year contract.

[@jamelwilliams1144]

I never heard anyone make so many excuses for Teddy 2 Gloves like this guy while trying to compare to Tua 😂 Face it, bud. Teddy was no good while here in Miami and couldn't measure up to Tua!

[@BillyBatsonMarvel]

Tua won how many games since December 🤔

[@jamelwilliams1144]

@@BillyBatsonMarvel And exactly how many games Teddy won for us 🤔

[@patchreefs]

THe Dolphins are grasping at straws.

[@ccrr8029]

Tua 2025? No thanks, cut him

[@juancruz9168]

Cut him 😂are you idiot I swear lot these bandwagon fans just say dumbest shit

[@HawgWyldFishing]

Get over it now, it’ll be less heartbreaking when you have to accept it later

[@quadsforme1421]

That’ll be 93mil guaranteed for not playing next year

[@ccrr8029]

@@quadsforme1421 so what….you’d rather keep losing?

[@ernestblaine7308]

Gimmick is over. McDaniels cannot coach. No discipline. It's over Johnny. You'll see....eventually

[@moeazizi]

Trade Tua for a 4th or 5th. No one will give you more than that for his scrambled brain. He was already pretty dumb but now hes dumb and way too injury prone and frankly, a one trick pony.

[@rthompson624]

The Dolphins suck. They are amongst the dregs of the NFL... again!

[@prettyboyfpv7740]

An average backup quarterback has a month of preseason before the whole NFL season even starts. So the fact that we gave Huntley not even a month and he's already 1 and 1 with us possibly two-in-one if he beats the colts, how can you say that he's not a legit backup quarterback if he comes out and looks a lot better than he did the last game means that he is his trajectory is going up I would rather leave him in and continue to watch him grow and get better than they already know what tuas ceiling is.