Chris Perkins: Are Dolphins free-agent moves good enough to deliver a playoff win?
Published in Football
Every NFL offseason, it’s the same free-agency fantasy.
We see it with the Dolphins, we see it all over the NFL.
Hope abounds.
No, let’s be real.
Hope runs amok.
Player A replaces Player B, and Player A will be even better because … and then you concoct some unlikely scenario in which Player A, as your team’s coach and general manager might insist, is actually a better fit than Player B for what they’re trying to accomplish.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
My casual observation from 15 years of coverage is that roughly 50% of free-agent signees meet expectations leaguewide.
That brings us back to the Dolphins, who, according to my estimates, have had above-average success (56%) with free agents the previous two years.
I know that’s a weird percentage. I’ll explain that soon.
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