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It can be sunny in Miami, but there is a cloud that hangs on the 2025 Dolphins season after a start of 0-2.
However, a team legend is not pressing the panic button yet.
Dan Marino, the field marshal of the Hall of Fame of Professional Soccer, has been watching his former team closely. The Dolphins looked much better in week 2 than in the defeat of week 1 against the Indianapolis Colts, but New England patriots still escaped with a victory in Miami’s first game.
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Dan Marino enters the field before a preseason game between the Miami Dolphins and the Atlanta Falcons at the Hard Rock Stadium on August 9, 2024 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Rich Story/Getty Images)
Marino, who played 17 seasons of the NFL, knows that many things could happen in the next 15 games.
“I think that if you ask all the team players, and they are all professionals and coaches too, everyone would feel disappointed by the fact that they are 0-2,” said Marino News Digital, while highlighting their personal health battle with Mash, a serious liver disease. “But once again, I was talking about that before, you have to be positive.”
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The 0-2 story begins does not favor Miami. In the last five seasons, 42 teams opened 0-2, and only five reached the playoffs, a successful rate of just under 12%.
The Dolphins reached the postseason in 2022 and 2023, but passed to 8-9 last year. Now, the responsibility is in chief coach Mike McDaniel to revive the high -power offensive of Miami, which looked more clear in week 2 than in the first game.
Even so, the questions persist on how long the franchise will travel with McDaniel, especially after a sign in the Hard Rock Stadium was seen asking for its shot. However, Marino expressed confidence in the coach’s ability to stabilize the ship.
The chief coach of the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, runs to the locker room after the first half of an NFL football match on Sunday, September 14, 2025 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo AP/Rebecca Blackwell)
“I think it’s a group effort obviously. Mike is a brilliant offensive mind. He has demonstrated that,” said Marino. “Yesterday (Sunday), it’s just at the end, like all games in the NFL, he went down to the last quarter. Almost all are like that, and you have to play the four rooms. We did it and had the opportunity to win.
“The Dolphins, yes (De’von) Achane did not come out of the limits, I really feel that we would have won that game. That happened, there are a couple of mistakes, and the next thing you know you lose the game. That is why it is so critical in the end, especially to play errors free football. But Mike is a very good football coach.”
In the NFL, the word “urgency” often presents only 17 games to decide postseason opportunities. Marino believes that urgency is not a record of 0-2, there should be every week.
“If you are playing in the NFL and you are a true professional, who are those types of NFL, you must have a sense of urgency every week, regardless of whether it is the first week or week 15 or the seventh week, whatever it is,” he said. “They have it. They understand that there is the possibility that you can go to a streak of victories and that you can be on a loss of a streak. You just have to find a way of being positive and working on that thing.”
The Dolphins face a brief change while preparing for their Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo of the AFC East, which have 2-0 to start the season. Marino recalled the loss of 30-27 of Miami in Buffalo last year, a game that showed the Dolphins could face to face with one of the best in the league.
The former Miami Dolphins Campo Marshal and the Hall of Fame, Dan Marino, speaks with Tua Tagovaila #1 before the match against the Atlanta Falcons at the Hard Rock Stadium on October 24, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Michael Reaves/Getty images)
This week, says Marino, brings another chance. And for him, the only way to follow is optimism.
“The Dolphins have another game to play Thursday night in Buffalo. Last year, they really played them there and almost won the game. Then, it is there for us. 0-2 is something you can return. It’s not the worst in the world, so I would say that is.
