NFL Playoffs 2016: 5 reasons Miami Dolphins will make it

The Miami Dolphins sit one game out of the playoffs, but they still have a great chance to make a playoff run

The Miami Dolphins are one of the hottest teams in the NFL. The team has won five straight and now find themselves above .500 and one game out of the playoffs. With six games still to be played, they certainly have the time to catch up and make a playoff run. It brings, the question of whether or not they have the team do so, though. Fear, not Dolphins, this team does have what it takes to make the playoffs and here is why.

5. Coaching

The biggest difference between this team and the Dolphins teams of past years is obvious. This is the best coaching staff this Dolphins team has had in a long time and at the least since Ryan Tannehill was drafted.

Adam Gase came in with a decent reputation and he has lived up to it. Gase is the rare breed of coach that changes his systems around the talent that the team has. It sounds so obvious, but not enough coaches do it. It can be shown in the type of offenses he ran from Tim Tebow to Peyton Manning to Jay Cutler. All fit the player’s strengths and all led to a decent amount of success. Gase is doing similar in Miami, and he is showing he can also be a leader that holds his team accountable.

The team also made a strong upgrade to the defensive side of the ball. Vance Joseph got the upgrade from Bengals secondary coach to the Dolphins defensive coordinator. That move has shown in the Bengals secondary, as that unit slowly falls apart and it has shown in the Dolphins defense which all of the sudden is playing like a top ten unit. In the NFL, where all of these players are separated by small fractions of talent coaching goes a long way. For the Miami Dolphins, it may take this team from a joke in the past few years to a contender overnight.