My need for a blog that performs well CEO-wise aside, I don’t think that it’s out of the question that the Miami Dolphins could be a player when it comes to where Garrett ends up. I’ll attempt to convince you that this is a realistic possibility or at least spin an entertaining thread in the process.
If you’ve been abstaining from watching Garrett’s tenure with the Browns (and given their 53-78-1 record over that time period, who could blame you?), then you’ve missed out on one of the most dominant defensive ends in the league. In his rookie season, he posted 7 sacks for the hapless zero-win 2017 squad, but since then, he’s had double-digit sacks in every season, with a career-high of 16 in both 2021 and 2022. He’s put up 14 in each of the past two seasons. In total, Garret has tailed 102.5 sacks in 8 years, with little sign of slowing down.
Mike McDaniel places an extremely high value on the defensive end position in the modern NFL. In a memorable media availability back on September 1st, 2022 he said
“I think the more quality guys you have, the fresher they can play, the more issues they give you offensively because now you’re preparing for six different pass rush moves instead of two that a particular player has, those type of things, and then they can play fresher during the game and it’s just such an incredibly important position that I’m all for that. If I could go and use – I mean, you’d have to talk me out of not trying to pitch to Chris (Grier) to draft a defensive lineman or edge every year because it’s that valuable.”