— Some Dolphins stuff arising from the league meetings:

Coach Mike McDaniel in his media session revealed the club had made an offer to free agent receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Made for headlines, but OBJ is a big name who’s no longer a big player Last productive season was 2019. Last made the Pro Bowl in ‘16. Would be Miami’s third receiver if he comes cheap enough.

Like McDaniel’s response to why the team didn’t franchise-tag free agent defensive tackle Christian Wilkins to keep him one more year: “We have to be the parents that have to look at our budget and make sure we can pay the water bill.”

Not only the water bill, but the Tua Tagovailoa bill coming due.

McDaniel predictably rejects the notion Miami may struggle to be as good as last season due to free-agency losses and salary cap-related cuts. I’d also note that top defenders Jaelan Phillips and Bradley Chubb are coming off major late-season injuries and may miss a large chunk of the coming season.

“Zero thought as to ‘down, rebuilding’ or whatever those words are,” the head coach said. “That makes zero sense to me.”

In fact, Miami has the ninth best Super Bowl odds for 2024 right now (fifth in the AFC), and a betting over/under of 10 wins compared to last season’s preseason number of 9 1/2.

(Aside to the coach: Mike, please do what you can to make sure the Dolphins aren’t one of those Wednesday Christmas games, OK? Thanks!)

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