PHOENIX -- The 2016 Miami Dolphins were something of a surprise.
We knew that when an organization that hadn’t been in the playoffs since 2008 and started last season with a 1-4 record, won nine of 10 games and made the playoffs.
But now -- months after 2016’s final game was played -- the opinion of the 2016 Miami Dolphins by some NFL movers and shakers is coming into focus.
With general managers, personnel executive, coaches and owners gathered in Arizona for the NFL annual meeting, a cursory survey of some of these folks shows exactly how surprised the rest of the NFL was by last year’s Dolphins.