The Miami Dolphins are back in the team’s training facilities today,

The Miami Dolphins are back in the team’s training facilities today Miami Dolphins Jerseys Stitched , opening their offseason training program and starting to prepare for the 2019 season. Miami is one of eight teams that can open..." opening their offseason training program and starting to prepare for the 2019 season. Miami is one of eight teams that can open their offseason training program today, as the league allows teams with new head coaches to open their programs two weeks ahead of the rest of the league. The Dolphins hired former New England Patriots defensive play caller Brian Flores this offseason to replace Adam Gase.Teams with returning head coaches will start their programs around April 15.The offseason training program is broken into three phases. The phases build upon each other, starting with conditioning and strength work and film reviews through to actual on-field training. The program also includes the “Organized Team Activities,” or OTAs, and the only mandatory offseason event, a three-day minicamp.Phase one, which begins today, features conditioning and strength workouts, with no positional work allowed. Players who need rehab work can receive treatment. This phase lasts for two weeks.Week three of the offseason program begins the second phase of the period. This three-week section allows for on-field workouts, with individual player instruction and drills. Teams can also hold “separates” practices - basically, no live contact and no team offense versus defense drills.Week six through nine of the offseason program will feature 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 team practices, but without live contact. This period will include the ten days of OTAs as well as the veteran minicamp. The Dolphins will hold their OTAs between May 13 and May 31 Replica Myles Gaskin Jersey , according to the team’s website, with a voluntary minicamp April 16-18 and a mandatory minicamp June 4-6. The Dolphins can add the voluntary minicamp this year as part of the league’s allowances for teams with new head coaches.Miami will also hold a three-day rookie minicamp, in either a league mandated window of May 3-6 or May 10-13, though that event has not been finalized yet.The offseason training program is a voluntary program, other than the mandatory minicamp, for the players, though it is assumed they will show up. There was thought cornerback Xavien Howard could have skipped the workouts, starting a holdout as he looks for a new contract. However, the Pro Bowl cornerback did report to the training facility on Monday, and, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Omar Kelly, negotiations between Howard and the team have been underway the last two weeks and are expected to continue this week.Howard, who arrived at the team’s facility at the same time as running back Kenyan Drake as two of the first players to show up, is slated to count for just $1.95 million against the salary cap this season. He is believed to be looking for a new contract that will pay him among the elite cornerbacks in the league, with an annual average around $15 million per season.According to the NFL Players Association Stitched Myles Gaskin Jersey , the Dolphins currently have about $27 million in salary cap space this offseason. OverTheCap.com estimates Miami with about $10 million more in cap space. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — With the clock winding down and another loss at hand, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross slumped in his skybox seat, right elbow resting heavily on the armrest, right hand pinching his forehead as if trying to intercept an oncoming headache.Down below, a small crowd mustered big boos.The Dolphins lost again, and will sit out the playoffs again. And so speculation about yet another possible organizational shake-up by Ross has begun. Miami was beaten 17-7 Sunday by Jacksonville , and could hardly have looked worse at home against an also-ran opponent. The Dolphins gained 83 yards on their first drive, and 100 the rest of the way."Terrible," head coach and play-caller Adam Gase said. "I mean, the offense was awful."Ryan Tannehill, playing perhaps his final home game with Miami, threw a pick-six in the fourth quarter to seal the defeat. As a result, the Dolphins (7-8) will sit out the postseason for the 15th time in the past 17 years."That's why you play this game — to get to the playoffs and try to win the last game of the year," receiver Danny Amendola said. "Unfortunately we lost today. It really stinks."The loss mathematically eliminated the Dolphins Xavien Howard Jersey , although because of subsequent results in other games, they would have been eliminated even if they had won. The dismal performance in the home finale is sure to sour Ross' view of his latest talent-deficient team.Miami has had 20 starting quarterbacks and nine coaches since 1999. Gase declined to discuss possible changes for 2019."I'm not there yet," he said. "We just got done with this. I've got to figure out why we can't get guys covered up, and why we can't be more physical than what we were."Gase's job could be in jeopardy, and the 30-year-old Tannehill's future is very much in doubt. His contract balloons to $18.7 million in base salary in 2019, when he would count $26.6 million against the salary cap, which could compel the Dolphins to seek a cheaper, younger alternative.When Gase was asked if he's getting winning play from Tannehill, he said, "Sometimes.""Today was a rough day for him," Gase said. "I wish he would have played a little better. I wish he would have made a few more decisions that were different. I think there have been games that he has played really well, and there have been some games where we haven't played well."And it's as much on me as it is on him. I have to do a better job of making sure that he's doing the right things at the right time."Tannehill is 42-45 as a starter and has never taken a postseason snap. Gase is 23-25 in three seasons with the Dolphins, including a playoff loss in 2016.They haven't won a postseason game since 2000. That will remain the case for at least another year.