Chris Grier Still in Charge

Chris Grier Still in Charge

The NFL trade deadline is Tuesday, November 4th, at 4 pm.

This is the last opportunity for teams to adjust their rosters via trade until after the Super Bowl.

The Miami Dolphins will undoubtedly be in the trade conversations as sellers, not buyers, given their 1-5 start to the 2025 regular season.

And, at this point, going into the Dolphins’ game against the Cleveland Browns, the decision makers on the Dolphins remain the same.

Let’s welcome our general manager, Chris Grier, who at present will be making the trade decisions for the Miami Dolphins.

Ill-advised?

Could Stephen Ross change his mind and fire Grier if the team continues to be embarrassed against the Browns?

Will Ross consider Coach Mike McDaniel also expendable along with Grier?

Or, of course, given Ross’ loyalty to his top executives, the status quo remains.

For Grier and McDaniel, the status quo of keeping their respective jobs creates a dynamic that likely affects their decisions when trade possibilities arise.

Does Grier limit trade moves to predictable, more reasonable decisions?

Trade edge rushers Jaelan Phillips and Bradley Chubb, as well as running back Jaylen Wright?

Those would be logical decisions with a modest return from a draft perspective and would save some salary cap dollars by releasing Chubb.

Or does Grier trade the team’s most valuable assets on the offensive side of the ball, namely, De’Von Achane and Jaylen Waddle?

Trading Achane and/or Waddle gives the Dolphins a significant return with future draft picks, but decimates the team’s chances of winning any more games in 2025 and erases two building blocks for the future of this team.

Not that the Dolphins win any more games, even with Achane and Waddle, than they would have otherwise.

Yet given the need for job security at least through the end of the 2025 season for both Grier and McDaniel, the expected move is for the Dolphins to remain conservative.

And hope that Grier or McDaniel does not do anything seemingly heroic to save a season that is already lost.