Famed Austrian-Hungarian stunt performer Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was known for being able to extricate himself from restraints that were seemingly impossible to get out of. In front of huge crowds, he routinely escaped from handcuffs, ropes, chains, straitjackets and even jails. Later, he would curl himself up inside a wooden crate, have the crate nailed shut and lowered underwater, then somehow get out again before he ran out of breath.
This offseason, the Miami Dolphins have pulled off an escape from some suffocating salaries and a roster that was rife with dead weight and overpaid and/or underperforming players with the same kind of panache that Houdini was once known for.