The Miami Dolphins will travel to Seattle for Sunday's game against the Seahawks on Thursday.

The flight from Miami to Seattle is the longest trip on the NFL schedule.

"Just kind of some of the research that we did with guys from other sports, as far as guys going from East Coast to West Coast," Adam Gase said. "With this being the first game of the year we were actually able to do it and we felt like if we could get out there a day earlier than we normally do, we felt like we had a chance to get our guys out and practice, but we could use that Thursday as a travel day. We were able to do a short meeting on Thursday, jump on the plane, get there. We’re going to do one thing so we can get guys kind of moving around a little bit, then practice Friday and Saturday do our walk thru. We just wanted to try to give our guys the best chance they could to feel as good as they could heading into Sunday."

Miami hasn't traveled to Seattle since 2004.