'I've been there' — Ricky Williams wants you to give the 2025 Miami Dolphins a little bit more time before you write them off for good

"I've been there. Everyone piles on. To me, losing early in the season like this is much better than losing late in the season. I think the teams that lose early like this have the ability to make the correction so that they can get better and improve. I think one of the things that I've always believed that football fans overreact about is — ANYTHING that happens in the first four weeks of the season is an overreaction...obviously there are things that need to be addressed. It's like a relationship, there's things that come up in a relationship that need to be addressed but there's also that lingering thing that's always there. As a fan, we can complain about what we see topically, but a lot of us — especially Dolphins fans — we've got wounds. So when we see things that are deep that haven't been address, it can tend to lead to an overreaction."

— Ricky Williams on the Miami Dolphins' slow start in Week 1 against the Colts on theTobin & Leroy Show

One thing you can say for sure about Ricky? He gets Dolphins fans. The nod to the wounds of this fanbase is incredibly on point, so that perspective mixed with Williams' own experience as an NFL player should give Miami fans some pause about the mass dismissal of this year's team after one game.

The bad news for Miami is there's not just things that need to be addressed. There's a lot of things that need to be addressed. And you don't have a lot of time to get there — Miami will play two games in the next eight days against divisional opponents.

With the buzz of Tyreek Hill's potential trade status and the noise around Mike McDaniel's job security, this season feels like it's on the rocks before it ever gets going. And that is, in part, because of the scars that Miami's fanbase surely carries after names like Brian Flores, Adam Gase, Joe Philbin, Tony Sparano, and Nick Saban have all teased the potential to be a long-term answer for the Dolphins before the bottom fell out for each.

Perhaps this is what the 2025 Miami Dolphins really are. Perhaps it's not. Ricky's just asking you to give them a few more weeks to prove it one way or another.

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