Take a look at the Miami Dolphins’ 2025 training camp schedule
Culture change. Culture change. Culture change.
Those the words most heavily used during the Miami Dolphins’ offseason program. Well, the time is almost here to see if it’s true. The team announced their training camp schedule Tuesday, meaning that fans will have an opportunity to check out their beloved franchise as soon as late July.
Key dates include July 26, the opening of training camp; Aug. 2, season ticket member day; and Aug. 21, the Dolphins’ joint practice versus the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Dolphins will also travel to Detroit and Chicago for two preseason games, meaning that the Lions and Bears will host joint practices, the dates of which have yet to be released. Game times, however, are as follows: Miami will play the Bears at 1 p.m Aug. 10 at Soldier Field then face the Lions at 1 p.m. Aug. 16 at Ford Field and finally host the Jaguars at 7 p.m. Aug. 23 at Hard Rock Stadium.
From the very first day of organized team activities, players have waxed ad naseum about the culture change, something that was apparently needed after a disappointing season plagued by injuries, missed opportunities and tardiness.
“We’ve only been here three weeks so far, but I’m loving how everybody is attacking the day,” center Aaron Brewer said May 7. “Everybody is working, we got our little couple of hours in the building, but even after that window closes, people are still around working. That’s what you love to see, people putting in that extra time, that extra work. I feel like the identity of the defense and offense, both sides of the ball, we’re here after hours putting in overtime. That’s something you love to see and I’m excited for what we can do with that.”
That, in a sense, is why the Dolphins’ 2025 training camp will be crucial. Not only will the team don pads for the first time, fans will get the first chance to see if this culture change is just talk or palpable.
“I think there is a culture shift,” quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said June 10. “I feel it just as much as everyone that’s been here since I’ve gotten into the league. We always hear about, ‘Man, culture shift. You guys have a change of this. You guys are doing this, always optimistic.’ But I really do feel in my heart that this is a change of scenery for our guys in the locker room, and then it also transitions to our coaches as well, because we get opportunities to lead and it’s not as much the coaches as it is the players I would say this year.”
Added Tagovailoa: “You’ve got to have the right guys to be able to do that with, and I think we have the right guys within the room, within the locker room, within the offense, and I know those guys on the defense feel like they have their guys as well. For me, I think what’s most important is I’ve been here for five years going on six. Are you not tired of what we’ve done these past five years? If you are, then why aren’t we doing anything about it? What do we have to change?”
The purported culture change couldn’t have come at a better time. With leaders like Terron Armstead and Calais Campbell gone, the team will be in search of a new identity. It won’t be an easy task, however, the core of the NFL’s most productive offense in 2023 —Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle — is still there.
