3 Yards Per Carry - Miami Dolphins · Five Reasons Sports Network

THE OFFSEASON Ep. 3.36

February 25, 2026·37 min·3 clips

John Eric Sullivan and Jeff Halfley's media-savvy plan signals a foundational reset for the Miami Dolphins.

19-6 sets the frame. The Panthers segment has urgency without panic, with the final 25 treated as the runway into playoff form. Get in, then get dangerous. That is the logic: if Florida hits the playoffs at full speed, the panel sees a team that would be a pain to deal with. The mood turns quickly. Good feelings about Team USA slide into a sharper argument about online backlash, political framing, and people hunting for outrage. Twitter takes most of the blame. The gripe is not really that the men's team went to the State of the Union. It is that sports discourse keeps looking for a fight. A correction matters here. One speaker thinks the State of the Union was in Miami, then gets corrected that the trip was actually to D.C. That changes the read. Instead of treating it like a local drop-in, the panel talks through travel and the familiar history of teams visiting official spaces. The medal angle comes next. The Team USA goalie receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom gets framed as part of a pattern, not some wild exception. Megan Rapinoe is the comparison, with her U.S. Women's Soccer honor after a World Cup win used as the example. The Canadian thread gets waved off. Silver-medal complaints are there, but the bigger target is the reflex to turn sports moments into partisan theater. Blunt, but not sloppy.

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Dolphins talk that widens into hockey, politics, and online backlash.

This episode starts with Dolphins talk, then opens out into Florida Panthers momentum and the Team USA backlash. The strongest stretch comes when the hosts circle around online outrage and the gap between what people say they are reacting to and what they are actually reacting…

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You want a Dolphins show that can veer into hockey and still land its point.

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