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50 seasons of the Miami Dolphins: Picking their team of the 1970s

The Dolphins will celebrate their 50th season during Monday night’s Dolphins-Giants game and with a reunion of the top-50 players in team history this weekend.

The Post’s Hal Habib offers his all-time team as well as a decade-by-decade look at the best teams in Dolphins history.

(No surprise: The team’s fortunes over the decades mirror the competition to make each team, with the first decade being the toughest.)

The 1970s

Offense
QB: Bob Griese Hall of Famer; called own playsRB: Mercury Morris, 1,000 yards in 1972
FB: Larry Csonka, Hall of Famer; MVP of Super Bowl VIII
WR: Paul Warfield, Yet another with gold jacket
WR: Nat Moore, 22 TDs in two seasons alone
TE: Jim Mandich, Mr.