Dan Marino remains positive towards Dolphins’ 0-2 begins to spice

It may be sunny in Miami, but there is a cloud hanging over Dolphins’ 2025 season after a 0-2 start.

However, a team legend does not hit the panic button yet.

Dan Marino, Pro Football Hall of Fame -quarterback, has seen his previous team carefully. The dolphins looked much better in week 2 than they did in week 1’s blowout tab for Indianapolis Colts, but New England Patriots still escaped with a win in Miami’s home opener.

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Marino, who played 17 NFL seasons, knows that a lot could happen over the next 15 games.

“I think if you ask each player on the team and they are all benefits and the coaches, they would all be disappointed with the fact that they are 0-2,” Marino told Pakinomist Digital, while also highlighting his personal health struggle with Mash, a serious liver disease. “But once again, I talked about it earlier, you have to be positive.”

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The story of 0-2 starts does not favor Miami. Over the past five seasons, 42 teams opened 0-2, and only five continued to play the playoffs-a success rate of just under 12%.

The dolphins reached after the season in 2022 and 2023, but slipped to 8-9 last year. Now Onus is on the head coach Mike McDaniel to reign Miami’s high -ranged violation, which looked sharper in week 2 than in the opener.

Still hanging questions about how long the franchise will ride with McDaniel, especially after a sign at Hard Rock Stadium was seen asking for his firing. However, Marino expressed confidence in the coach’s ability to stabilize the ship.

Miami Dolphin’s main coach Mike McDaniel runs to the dressing room after the first half of a NFL football match on Sunday 14 September 2025 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

“I think it’s obviously a group effort. Mike is a brilliant offensive mind. He has proven it,” Marino said. “Yesterday (Sunday) it’s just at the end, like all the games in the NFL, come down to the fourth quarter. Almost all of them are like that and you have to play all four quarters. We did and we had a chance to win.

“The dolphins, if (de’von) Achane did not step out of the borders, I really feel like we would have won that game. It happened, there are a few mistakes and the next thing you know you are losing the game. That’s why it is so critical at the end, especially playing flawless football. But Mike is a very good football coach.”

In the NFL, the word “urgent” often comes with only 17 games to decide the chances after the season. Marino believes that speed is not about a 0-2 record-it should exist every week.

“If you play in the NFL and you are a real pro that these guys in the NFL are, you need to have a sense of urgent every week, whether it’s the first week or 15th week or seventh week – whatever it may be,” he said. “They have it. They understand that there is a possibility that you can walk on a victory and you can be in a losing row. You just have to find a way to be positive and work through that thing.”

The dolphins are facing a short turn as they prepare for their AFC East-rivaling Buffalo Bills, 2-0 to start the season. Marino remembered Miamis close 30-27 losses in Buffalo last year, a game that showed that the dolphins could go toe with one of the league’s best.

Former Miami Dolphins and Hall of Fame -quarterback Dan Marino talks with Tua Tagovailoa #1 before the game against Atlanta Falcons at Hard Rock Stadium on October 24, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

This week, says Marino, brings another option. And for him, the only way forward is optimism.

“The dolphins have another game to play Thursday night in Buffalo. Last year they played them really hard up there and won the game almost the game. So it’s there for us. 0-2 is something you can get back from. It’s not the worst thing in the world, so I would say that’s it. You have to be positive at it,” he said.