{"id":368381,"date":"2026-08-11T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368381\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:28:27","slug":"miami-dolphins-vs-washington-commanders-2026-preseason-how-long-should-dolphins-starters-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368381\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins vs. Washington Commanders 2026 preseason: How long should Dolphins starters play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Dolphins fans and fans across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Miami Dolphins open their 2026 preseason schedule on Friday with a visit to the Washington Commanders. In the league\u2019s era of just three preseason games, balancing the needs to get starters ready for the regular season and to get younger players game experience is more difficult. Add in Miami\u2019s new coaching staff and a complete roster reset this year, leading to numerous rookies and younger players trying to prove themselves, and it is tough to predict how much Miami\u2019s starters will play in Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Which brings us to today\u2019s SB Nation Reacts survey question. How long do you think the Dolphins\u2019 starters should play against the Commanders? Should Miami sit the starters, waiting until the second preseason game next week? Should they only play the first quarter? The entire first half? Into the second half? Or should the Dolphins give them the entire game to gain experience and build chemistry?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Vote in the poll below and head to the comments to let us know your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,38736,137120,125,124,35461],"class_list":["post-368381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins-discussion","tag-miami-dolphins-preseason","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sb-nation-reacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}