In five of the seven years Stephen Ross has owned the Miami Dolphins, he has suggested at least one trade or dynamic roster move to his general managers -- first with Jeff Ireland, then Dennis Hickey and lately with executive vice president of football operations Mike Tannenbaum.

There have been spurts when calls suggesting a trade or some other "outside the box move" from Ross's New York office to the Dolphins Florida training facility have come much more frequently than just once a year.

It seems the owner really likes thinking of imaginative ways to possibly upgrade his team and he doesn't mind sharing his thoughts with his football people who always have the power -- mostly because of language in their contracts -- to act on the suggestion or not. More often not.

And in that regard the fact Tannenbaum is working for Ross is a perfect match.

Tannenbaum, you see, is working for an owner who wants his football guys to make moves. And Tannenbaum, in his first offseason with the ultimate power to make moves, loves to make moves.

That was his history as general manager of the New York Jets. That's been his history, however short, with the Dolphins.

Tannenbaum was general manager in New York from 2006 to 2012. In those seven seasons, Tannenbaum made 18 trades that dealt away 28 draft choices and eight players and acquired for New York 14 draft choices and five players.

And if that seems unbalanced, consider that Tannenbaum wasn't just dealing with other teams straight up. He was often trying to vault up draft charts to position the Jets with higher picks few believed he could or should be acquiring.

The fact is Tannenbaum made four trades involving first round picks.

He made five trades involving second-round picks. He made three trades involving third-round picks.

Tannenbaum either traded into or traded up in the first round each of the first four drafts he ran in New York. In 2009 he made a trade that moved the Jets from the No. 17 overall spot in the first round -- lower than the No. 13 perch Miami is scheduled to pick from in two weeks -- to No. 5 overall.

And Tannenbaum didn't blink in trading his first (No. 17), a second (No. 56) and three players on his roster to do it.

Why is this pertinent now as Tannenbaum starts what is effectively his third season with the Miami Dolphins?

Well, in his first season in 2014, Tannenbaum was positioned as a consultant, helping with the team's burgeoning analytics department. In 2015, Tannenbaum was named EVP of football operations but the power to make trades and run the draft remained with Hickey who was the general manager.

This year, Tannenbaum can pretty much do whatever he pleases because Hickey is no longer with the team and new general manager Chris Grier answers to Tannenbaum. And, despite all humility and talk of organizational and collaborative decisions you'll hear ad nauseam the next two weeks, Tannenbaum is running the show.

Period.

The wheeler dealer is holding the cards for a boss who has been known to encourage wheeling and dealing.

It could be awesome!

Or it could be a disaster.

But it promises to be interesting.

On the one hand, perhaps Tannenbaum plays to his history and makes a deal for a running back -- as he's been trying to do for several weeks now. Knile Davis?

He already consummated a pre-draft trade involving Miami's first round pick -- trading No. 8 overall for No. 13 overall plus cornerback Byron Maxwell and linebacker Kiko Alonso. Tannenbaum said he did this because he got three starters for the No. 8 pick -- yes, the Dolphins say the player picked No. 13 will be a starter.

So what now? Does Tannenbaum, having already lived up to his reputation as a trade machine, sit right where he is in the first round?

Or this:

Some NFL draft experts are saying over and over that the No. 50 player in this draft could be just as talented as No. 17. If the Dolphins believe this, and knowing they have 77 players on the roster and 90 is the limit, do they try to trade away their third- and fourth-round picks to add a second selection in the second round because that player would have a better chance to contribute?

Do the Dolphins, the youngest team in the AFC East by a significant margin, try to exchange a draft pick for an established veteran?

Do the Dolphins trade away Cameron Wake if the price is right?

(I'm not saying he's on the block. But he is 34 years old. He is expensive. And it would not be the first time the idea is floated within the Dolphins organization).

The possibilities are not endless. But there's too many to list in one sitting.

It should be said that Tannenbaum's success rate as the Jets trade maven was mixed.

In 2006 he acquired a second pick in the first round by trading away aging pass rusher John Abraham to Atlanta and used it to select center Nick Mangold, who has been the anchor of that team's offensive line for a decade. That was after he picked offensive tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson with an earlier first-rounder.

The following year, Tannenbaum traded up 11 spots in the first round to pick cornerback Darrelle Revis. I'm a Pro Football Hall of Fame voter and my sense is Revis's candidacy for the HOF will someday be discussed by the panel of voters I sit on. Tannenbaum also traded up in the second round in 2007, giving up his second, third- and fifth-rounder to move up and draft linebacker David Harris -- another very good player.

Tannenbaum traded into the first round in 2008 to pick tight end Dustin Keller. He traded his third-round pick for Carolina defensive tackle Kris Jenkins. He traded away inside linebacker Jonathan Vilma to the Saints. The guy was busy.

Tannenbaum acquired cornerback Antonio Cromartie via trade in 2011, he traded into the fifth round that same year to select Jeremy Kerley.

And all those worked wonderfully for the Jets.

But -- you knew it was coming, Mike -- there were moves that bombed as well.

Most of the disasters involved quarterbacks.

Tannenbaum traded up in the second round in 2006 to draft Kellen Clemens.

That blockbuster in 2009 that sent two picks and three players to Cleveland for the No. 5 overall selection? It was to pick Mark Sanchez. And, Tannenbaum might argue, Sanchez helped get the Jets to the AFC title game two years in a row. And I completely reject that because Sanchez was mostly along for a ride authored by a top defense and top running game and when those declined Sanchez was exposed. Sanchez was and remains an interception machine who was not big enough for the New York stage. Or any stage that cast him as a starter, for that matter.

Tannenbaum in 2008 sent a fourth-round pick to Green Bay for Brett Favre. And if Jets fans can forgive that Favre didn't work out and was gone within a year, it must still sting that Tannenbaum cut Chad Pennington as a result of that trade. And Pennington signed as a free agent with Miami and led the Dolphins to the AFC East title.

Tannenbaum in 2012 sent a fourth-round pick to Denver for Tim Tebow. (And there were reports this move was ordered by owner Woody Johnson. See? Tannenbaum is open to doing dumb things the owner suggests or orders).

He traded up in the second round that same year to select wide receiver Stephen Hill who lasted two seasons before being cut.

Tannenbaum was fired by the Jets after the 2012 season. And say what you will of his record, he was not afraid of going for the big move.

And now working for an owner that in the past has pitched big moves only to be held off by more cautious football men, things could get interesting in Miami.