They Had a Players Only Team Meeting Already? You Can’t be Serious?!

Originally posted on Dolphins Talk | By Mike Oliva | Last updated Sep 11, 2025 8:32 PM ET

They Had a Players Only Team Meeting Already? You Can’t be Serious?!

The Miami Dolphins had a players-only team meeting after week 1.

Really?!

Really?

REALLY!

What did this team do for all of training camp?

I have so many questions, and no answers, but I am totally flabbergasted that they felt the need for a players-only team meeting after one game.

First off, any time you hear “players only team meeting,” it is a bad sign.

Nothing good ever comes from that, and it is a sign that the end is near.

And by the end, it means a coach/manager being fired, or the team being blown up, or a lot of infighting will begin shortly.

But back to my original question, what did this team do during training camp that needed to be said again after just one game?

And I ask this question knowing there is no logical answer that can be given.

All offseason, we heard Mike McDaniel, Chris Grier, and multiple players say over and over again, and many of them on our DolphinsTalk podcast, that the culture is great in Miami.

That players are going to play paintball together, they feel like brothers, they are doing steak dinners together.

The lineman went out and did pilates together to bond, and it’s been nothing but bonding, bonding, and more team bonding.

And the word that was stressed all offseason was ACCOUNTABILITY. Players holding other players accountable.

So, after five months of the offseason and one month of training camp, they needed to do a players-only meeting and stress all of this again?

I don’t want to come off like Debbie-downer, but it’s over, folks.

To me, this is a sign that this thing is so far gone that there is no coming back.

Yeah, maybe they beat New England this week, but this organization and locker room are so broken and fractured, it’s beyond repair.

This Dolphins team has talent, and they have some good assistant coaches like Austin Clark, Darrell Bevel, and Robert Prince, just to name a few.

I know week 1 was bad, but you would hope this team would have just been able to give each other a look like, we got this, and just move forward onto week 2.

WEEK 2!!!!!!

And not felt the need to hold a players’ only meeting.

Maybe Miami comes out like gangbusters this weekend and runs New England off the field; that is clearly what they need to do.

But to me, this is a bad sign, and I think we all know how this story is going to end, and the fact that they had to have a players-only team meeting already cements that for me.

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