2007
January 3
Head Coach Nick Saban resigns his post with the Dolphins after accepting the same position at University of Alabama.
January 5
Defensive end Jason Taylor is named the Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the third Dolphin to earn that honor, joining safety Dick Anderson (1973) and defensive end Doug Betters (1983).
January 19
Cam Cameron, the offensive coordinator with the San Diego Chargers since 2002, is named the seventh head coach in Dolphins history.
Janunary 24
Dom Capers signs a contract extension with the team and is named defensive coordinator. Keith Armstrong, special teams coach since 2001, signs a contract extension and is named special teams coordinator. Terry Robiskie is named wide receivers coach and Brett Maxie is named safeties coach.
February 2
At an international press conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center, it is announced that the Dolphins will take part in the first-ever NFL regular season game to be staged outside of North America, as they will face the New York Giants on October 28, 2007 at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Februaey 8
Diron Reynolds is named defensive line coach, his first appointment as a position coach in the NFL after serving as a defensive quality control coach with Indianapolis since 2002. Matt Schiotz is named strength and conditioning coach after spending the previous five years as assistant strength and conditioning coach with San Diego.
February 19
Terry Shea, a former head coach at both San Jose State and Rutgers, who has been the quarterbacks coach with Kansas City Chiefs four of the previous five seasons, is hired to tutor the Dolphins quarterbacks.
March 16
Dennis Sym, more commonly known to Dolphins Fans as “Dolfan Denny’ dies at the age of 72. Sym led Miami crowds in cheers and chants in his glittering orange and aqua hat from the Dolphins’ first game in 1966, starting in the stands. In 1976, then team owner Joe Robbie asked Denny to move down to the field as the team’s official motivator. Sym retired in 2000.
April 23
WQAM Radio enters into an agreement with the Dolphins to air Dolphins games once again, starting in 2007 and running through at least 2009.
April 24
Bobby Jackson, who last served as offensive coordinator with the St. Louis Rams in 2002, is named running backs coach.
