The Miami Dolphins should follow suit after the reigning Super Bowl champs made a feel-good signing this week
The Miami Dolphins should follow suit after the Seahawks made a great gesture to a former player.
The Miami Dolphins‘ past 20 years have been filled with plenty of heartache and frustration.
But that should only make the roses amongst the thorns that much more precious to cling to. If you were to look over the last two decades of Dolphins football, you’d likely marvel the 2008 and 2023 teams. The twilight of players like Jason Taylor. The brilliant flash that was Tyreek Hill’s peak. And players such as Xavien Howard, Cameron Wake, and Reshad Jones, who were individual standouts. Wake, in particular, was sensational despite an untraditional journey to the league. And thanks to a move by the reigning champs, I am once again asking the Miami Dolphins to officially bring Wake home.
The Miami Dolphins should follow suit after the Seahawks let Cassius Marsh retire as a Seahawk, sign Cam Wake to a one-day contract
The Seattle Seahawks signed former EDGE rusher Cassius Marsh to a contract this past week, allowing him to officially retire as a member of the organization. This isn’t some new scheme — it’s a gesture we’ve seen NFL franchises make to players for years. This just so happens to be the latest reminder that this is a page in the playbook you can offer to players at the end of their careers.
Marsh entered the league as a 4th round pick by the Seahawks in 2014 and played games for eight different franchises. None more than Seattle. He carved out a nice career, last playing in the NFL in 2021.
Which begs the question, if the Seahawks can offer this gesture to a defender with 37 games played and three sacks with the franchise, why couldn’t (or wouldn’t) the Miami Dolphins do so with Cameron Wake?
Wake joined the Dolphins as a prized CFL free agent in 2009, played in 146 games with the Dolphins and ranks second on the team’s all-time franchise sack leaderboard (98.0). He last played for the franchise in 2018 before being apart of the last grand Dolphins teardown. He signed with the Tennessee Titans in 2019, logged 2.5 sacks in nine games and hasn’t played since.
Wake, according to publicly available information, has never officially retired despite being out of the game since 2020. This isn’t the first time I’ve thought out loud that a Wake one-day contract & retirement would be super cool. It’d also be a fitting end for the grandest rose amid the thorns that were the 2010s in Miami Dolphins history. The Marsh transaction just so happens to be the latest reminder that this kind of move is on the table.
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