MIAMI GARDENS — The Florida Panthers talked to the Miami Dolphins about winning recently.

Sometimes, every hope can be wrapped in a simple sentence like that.

Dolphins general manager Chris Grier dropped that news bit Wednesday in his annual session with media that didn’t deliver some memorable line like he typically has done since being named GM a decade ago.

“The dysfunction stops now,” he said way back then.

It never stopped, of course. Last season’s lack of professionalism and this offseason’s purge showed that. It also explained why this is Grier’s last stand, as everyone should know.

The general-manager-for-life is finally approaching his ninth life and needs a playoff-winning year to stay. You know it. He and coach Mike McDaniel know it.

“Words don’t matter,” as Grier sa

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