The locker room door was closed on Tuesday, September 9, and Mike McDaniel was not invited inside. That image alone tells the story. The Dolphins , reeling from a Week 1 humiliation, chose to handle their problems themselves. It came just hours after Rob Gronkowski went on Up & Adams show and called Miami “ terrible ,” hinting McDaniel is “ losing the locker room .” When a Super Bowl legend and former players like Asante Samuel Sr. are calling the coach a “ pushover ,” you know the noise is not just outside chatter. It is the kind of smoke that means fire. And Tuesday’s meeting was not just routine film work.

Instead, it was players taking ownership of what was supposed to be an off-day. A signal that things have hit a breaking point. The Dolphins hit pause after their

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