The NFL’s “legal tampering period” before the league year begins started yesterday. Early in the day, the news broke that the Miami Dolphins and Malik Willis had agreed to a 3-year/67.5 million deal to become the team’s new starter at quarterback. With that, I asked the following question in last evening’s post:
What’s your opinion on our Miami Dolphins signing Malik Willis to be the quarterback for 2026 through 2028? Further, if you are or are not a fan of the signing, what are your thoughts on the size
of the contract that they handed Willis?
Below are some of your thoughts and answers-
Dolphster has concerns that Willis will be better than Ewers next season, which could cost the team a higher first-round pick.
Maybe I’m putting too much thought into this. But one of my concerns about the Willis signing is that the Dolphins are going to be bad this year, either with or without Willis. So if Willis starts instead of Ewers, you get maybe 2 more wins on the season than you would with Ewers? So, just enough wins (5 or 6?) to be out of a top 3 draft pick in 2027 when you could hopefully draft your potential franchise QB.
THEphinz fears he won’t make it through the season physically.
The contract size for a projected 2 year starter is fine. I dont know if the fine print has been released but I hope the 3rd year has a low cost “out”.
I just still am not sure about a guy that objectively failed in TN, got replaced by a bottle of mayonnaise, then was put into very controlled situations in GB and yes, he did his job in those situations, but he also got hurt and didnt have to do much.
What will he be? Has he grown enough to become “that guy”? Hopefully we get lucky and he just needed time to find his footing. My guess is by week 10 he will be on crutches on the sideline
Phoenix6 thinks the signing was great.
What’s your opinion on our Miami Dolphins signing Malik Willis to be the quarterback for 2026 through 2028?
Awesome.
Let’s face it, Ewers wasn’t the heir aparant.
Further, what are your thoughts on the size of the contract that they handed Willis?
From the enticement to the agreement to the working the cap hits was phenomenal.
Professionals working for a professional organization & keeping it that way by putting a professional team together.
TheRoo1 sees a guy who takes more yards lost on sacks than Tua did.
The Miami nightmare,,,,
Because he is so much more mobile, Willis gets sacked for an average loss of 18 yards, instead of Tua’s average loss of 6 or 7.
bluebull53 says the new boss is the same as the old boss.
Miami blows 99 million on Tua’s bad contract and then on the same day blows 70 million for Malik Willis. They should have just kept Tua another year. That money could have been spent to build a winning team. This new GM is a clown like the last one. What a joke.
coach k 13 doesn’t know how to feel.
Don’t love it and don’t hate it.
rip1122 believes the past should inform our future.
All fans, just remember they kept saying about Tua and Tannehill the same thing “we don’t know” “the jury is still out on him” We all know this really means, a failure. And if this is what is said about Willis after the 26′ season, you can add his name to the list w/ the other 2.
The Earl says that the QB available to the Phins in 2027 might not be any better.
All this talk about “draft the franchise QB in 2027”.
Ok… who? Name some names besides Arch. Who? Dante Moore? Who? Name them.
4 months ago, the 2026 draft was gonna have all these QBs. Now it doesn’t. I guarantee you some of the names you could list here will be available outside the top 5 and probably outside the top 10. Some might return to school. Some might have bad seasons and fall. That’s what happened to Jordan Love. That’s the same QB that some GB think is worse than Willis. In fact, I saw a comment today where a GB fan thinks Miami took the better HC, GM, and QB away from them.
But sure… let’s tank and get the #1 overall pick just to watch the 2027 class dry up like the 2026 class. Then what?
PA phinphan says Willis was not his choice, but he will root for the guy in a Dolphins jersey. That’s a lot of us!
Is Willis who I wanted? Not really. Of the options out there, he is the only one the Phins could “afford” and had enough upside to take a chance on. I would have preferred to draft someone in the fifth or seventh round to compete with Ewers and Miller. Nonetheless, I will trust those who know Willis better. I will root for him as he plays for my favorite team. Go Phins!
Dolfanjoe points out the high percentage of the cap that the Phins will spend on quarterbacks this season.
I am shocked ! We will be paying out a large portion of our salary cap in 27 now to two QBs ! All i can say is Sullivan and Halfley apparently believe in Willis 96.9 %. Don’t get me wrong i 100 % hope this works out. They may very well be risking there jobs going forward. But of course if Ewers Mac and Willis fail. We should still have a very early draft picks to work with in 27 ! So drafting a top rookie in 27 is still very possible. Right now we do not have the money to pay Willis and i am sure we will not have that until after June 1st. But of course Willis knows this, although there was no tampering early ! Getting rid of Waddle and Achane might not happen now ? Although it could still. But you would think they would like to give Willis all the positive vibes going forward. He will still have to beat out Mac and Ewers, both who should be very motivated ! If nothing else, they just gave us a whole different outlook to this offseason !
RMLogic believes that there are no sure-fire guys coming out of college in 2027, so rooting for a bad year is foolish.
I just laugh at the bozos wanting to lose games to get a top pick to draft a QB in27. They must never watch college football. There is no sure fire franchise QB in that group. None even close to Mendoza this year.
Manning- most overrated for sure. Wildly inaccurate. Poor decision maker.
Moore- was terrible against good competition. Rarely threw the ball deep downfield.
Sayin- most accurate thrower, poor athletically, short, cant see that field well at all.
Sellers- athletic guy that cant read defenses, terrible decision maker, inaccurate.
The rest of QBs are nothing special at all.
At least Willis has NFL experience and showed last year he can play in the NFL. Maybe he can be a decent QB. You have to keep trying to find a guy. Wanting one those college guys is stupid.
The Miami Ute would have preferred to just roll with Ewers in 2026 for the long-term betterment of the team.
What I would have done is taken my lumps and rolled with Ewers during the 2026 season. From my understanding, the reality of Willis’ deal is two years x 22.5M. After that, the Dolphins can part with him, no harm, no foul. Hiwever, don’t you think that the Dolphins could have used that money, considering their salary cap situation, in other areas? Yeah, to me, this is a textbook Steve Ross engineered deal where the Dolphins are bidding against themselves and hoping against hope that they’re not as bad as they’re predicted to be.
As for Willis, he reminds me of another ex-Green Bay QB named Matt Flynn. Like Willis, Flynn was the 2nd string QB at GB and shined in a couple of relief appearances for Aaron Rodgers during the 2011 season. He is best remembered in Green Bay for his record-setting 480-yard, 6-touchdown game in 2011 versus the Lions. That set him up for a big contract with Seattle, but he never really did anything there due to the emergence of Russell Wilson.
Gator68 says it’s confusing because the sample size is too small, and the results, even then, were underwhelming.
6 games over 4 years- never was THE starter.. after 4 years. record of 3-3 and sacked 25 times in 6 games.. how does that earn 20+ million/year and how much guaranteed?? 45 ? after only 6 games played.
plus we are eating 90+ million in Tua’s dead CAP hit…..
scratching my head……
Lefty5150 says it will be a better-looking move if they can find the cap space to sign their drafted players.
This move will look a lot better if they can extend 2 or 3 guys so they can sign their draft class. They also have a huge gaping hole at WR that no one wants to admit.
StanleyDoyle1 believes this move is just setting us up for more of the same.
What’s most disappointing about signing Willis is that it demonstrates the new regime has no strategy. Rather than endure a year of rebuilding pain for a longer term objective – drafting a top franchise QB – they go for the easy and familiar short term bandage. Willis at best will get them to 8-9, and then the cycle of mediocrity just repeats itself. And Tua will have the last laugh as he guides the Falcons to the playoffs.
Dolphins gonna Dolphin.
That’s our random 15 comments for this evening. There is seemingly no consensus on this move by the front office, with some of you liking it or loving it, and others either weary or completely out on it altogether. I suspect we might have more consensus, one way or another, once we have, maybe, a half-season sample size of what he brings to this team at the position. Thank you, as always, to those of you who join in our question-of-the-day posts, adding to the discussion that keeps this site going.
