This week the Miami Dolphins announced their official team captains for the 2025 season. While there was a notable absence in wide receiver Tyreek Hill for obvious reasons, there was also a new name who appeared. Defensive end Bradley Chubb missed all of 2024 with a torn ACL, but he’s back now and will officially help the Dolphins with their coin toss decisions.
Chubb joins Tua Tagovailoa, Aaron Brewer, Alec Ingold, Jordyn Brooks and Zach Sieler as team captains.
“Yeah, I was a captain in Denver as well,” Chubb told reporters Monday. “So, second time. Always an honor, you know what I mean, when your teammates think highly of you like that. And you just try to set the example each and every day. And when people notice it and want you to lead their team, it’s always an honor. So, held it with high respect.”
Bradley Chubb says things are different from last year
Chubb wants things to change for the Dolphins this season (probably in more ways than he’ll admit publicly if we’re being honest) and spoke out on the culture change from last year. He said back in June that the team didn’t have the right approach.
“I’m going to say last year, we were lying, honestly,” Chubb said then. “Point blank, period. We felt it. We put our toe in the water, but we didn’t dive all the way in. We didn’t get all the way there with each other. We weren’t making the effort to go the extra mile and I would say this year, we’re doing that.”
Any athlete will tell you that it’s really difficult to be the leader you want to be when you’re injured. You’re part of the team…but, you’re not really. Chubb said Monday that that was the case with him last season.
“All last year, I was trying to find my way as a leader who wasn’t on the field, you know what I mean?” Chubb said. “And that part, for me, with having to navigate those first couple weeks and just feeling off and then finally hitting my stride as that guy that’s just bringing people along with me, even though I’m not on the field.”
Bradley Chubb wants everyone on board with Mike McDaniel
For what it’s worth, Chubb seems hell bent on changing the team culture this season. And he should, they have some really good young players who may or may not have been tainted by some of the veterans. Yes, I’m talking about guys like Jalen Ramsey and Tyreek Hill.
“I’m not sure how it’s going to turn out for us, but we are putting forth that foot to change it because last year, like I said, we said we wanted to change, yeah, we’re doing this, we’re doing that; but it’s not going exactly how we want to,” Chubb said. “But this year, I feel like everybody has the right mindset and moving forward, so if it works out, it’s going to work out. If it doesn’t, we’re going to get back to the drawing board and make sure it works out.”
Head coach Mike McDaniel likes Chubb’s new approach and – of course – made a joke about his comments.
“It would have been awesome if he would have told me on the front end when they were lying,” McDaniel said in June when told of Chubb’s ‘lying’ comments. “Beyond that, 2024, unless I’m using it directly for an analogy, I’m much more concerned with 2025. I think you do a lot more for the organization if you spend your time thinking forward in terms of not this, that, or the other, or whose fault it was. No, we want it like this, let’s do it like this and this is who we are. I don’t even — what year did you speak of? I guess I’ll read about that in history books.”
New Dolphins Captain Breaks Silence on Team Leadership