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Dolphins Provide Glimpse of Early Offseason Program Work

The Miami Dolphins in their second week of Phase One
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Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) throws the football during mandatory minicamp at Baptist Health Training Complex.
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) throws the football during mandatory minicamp at Baptist Health Training Complex. | Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

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The Miami Dolphins are wrapping up the second week of their offseason program and while Phase One is pretty uneventful work, it did feature Tua Tagovailoa throwing the ball to backs and receivers.

The Dolphins again provided a look at some of those throwing sessions via their social media account.

Per the rules of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, these are the Phase One rules:

-- QBs can throw to receivers with no coverage.

-- Kickers and Punters can kick, but players cannot field the ball and no snappers or holders can be involved.

-- Long Snappers can snap into a net.

-- Defensive players may not catch balls at all regardless of who is throwing them.

Along with the throwing sessions, Phase One consists of meetings, strength and conditioning, and physical rehabilitation.

The Dolphins also provided football of players working out.

Phase Two, which will start Monday and last three weeks, involves on-field workouts that may include individual or group instruction and drills. This includes “perfect play drills” and drills, plays conducted at a walk-through pace with offensive players lining up across from offensive players and defensive players lining up across from defensive players. No live contact or team offense vs. team defense drills are permitted.

Phase Three, beginning May 27, allows teams to conduct a total of 10 days of organized team activities (OTAs), though the Dolphins again will be using only six of those permitted days. No live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7 and 11-11 drills are permitted.

The offseason also includes a mandatory minicamp in June.

As they did last season, the Dolphins have opted to use only six of their 10 OTAs, so their offseason program will conclude at the end of their minicamp, which will run from June 4-6.

THE DOLPHINS OFFSEASON PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Monday, April 21 — Start of offseason program

Wednesday, May 14 — NFL Schedule Release

Tuesday, May 27 — OTA

Thursday, May 29 – OTA

Friday, May 30 — OTA

Monday, June 2 — OTA

Tuesday, June 3 — OTA

Thursday, June 5 — OTA

Tuesday, June 10 — Mandatory minicamp

Wednesday, June 11 — Mandatory minicamp

Thursday, June 12 — Mandatory minicamp

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ALAIN POUPART

Alain Poupart is the publisher/editor of Miami Dolphins On SI and host of the All Dolphins Podcast. Alain has covered the Miami Dolphins on a full-time basis since 1989 for various publications and media outlets, including Dolphin Digest, The Associated Press and the Dolphins team website. In addition to being a credentialed member of the Miami Dolphins press corps, Alain has covered three Super Bowls (for NFL.com, Football News and the Montreal Gazette), the annual NFL draft, the Senior Bowl, and the NFL Scouting Combine. During his almost 40 years in journalism, which began at the now-defunct Miami News, Alain has covered practically every sport at one time or another, from tennis to golf, baseball, basketball and everything in between. The career also included time as a copy editor, including work on several books, such as "Still Perfect," an inside look at the Miami Dolphins' 1972 perfect season. A native of Montreal, Canada, whose first language is French, Alain grew up a huge hockey fan but soon developed a love for all sports, including NFL football. He has lived in South Florida since the 1980s.

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