The Miami Dolphins finished the 2019 season 5-11 and in fourth place in the AFC East. In a normal year, a 5-11 finish would be seen as a miserable performance by a team hoping to compete, but in 2019, the Dolphins were expected to be the worst team in the league, with some analysts going so far as to declare the club the worst team to ever play the game. Instead, they finished with five wins, including three over the final five weeks of the year.
Heading into 2020, the Dolphins are moving from a team widely assumed to be “tanking” to a francise ready to rebuild and start moving forward.