Record 10–6 Head coach Jimmy Johnson Home field Hard Rock Stadium | Division place 2nd AFC East Start date 1998 | |
Playoff finish Won Wild Card Playoffs (Bills) 24–17
Lost Divisional Playoffs (Broncos) 38–3 Similar 1999 Miami Dolphins, 1996 Miami Dolphins, 2004 Miami Dolphins, 1985 Miami Dolphins | ||
The 1998 Miami Dolphins season was the team's 33rd as a member of the National Football League. The Dolphins improved upon their previous season's output of 9–7, winning ten games. The team qualified for the playoffs for the second straight year.
The 2012 Football Outsiders Almanac states that the 1998 Dolphins had the single biggest defensive improvement (from the previous season) from 1991 to 2011.
As with the 1985 Bears, the Dolphins defeated a team (the Broncos) widely tipped a few weeks earlier to beat their unbeaten 1972 season, although this time the Dolphins were not defending their status as the only unbeaten team since the Giants had already beaten the Broncos. Because, before the admission of the Texans in 2002, scheduling for NFL games outside a team’s division was subject to much greater influence from table position during the previous season, that game was the first time the Dolphins had opposed the Broncos since that same 1985 season.