The Dolphins have made plenty of aggressive investments into becoming a team that can control the trenches under the direction of Brian Flores and Chris Grier over the past two years. And there has been a direct correlation between how much Miami is willing to spend in dollars and how much success they’ve had dictating play up front. Miami charged out the gates hard in 2020 and paid a number of massive contracts to defensive front-seven players — and the unit obliged by transforming into a top-6 scoring defense in 2020. (Never mind that the unit was 1st in points allowed entering Week 17.