We’re a 6-7 team with some great comebacks and breaks.
To expect this sort of run to earn a trip to the playoffs is setting yourself up for disappointment.
why not? We had a 6 game win streak last year and that team wasn't really that much better. As a matter of fact the last two games were as good as any during last year's win streak. In addition to that: this year's team has one up over last year's team - a win against NE. Not just a win but a pretty darn convincing win.
We beat Buffalo twice last year and KC is beatable.
We could make the argument that last year's win streak came a game or two to early. By the time we played NE in the last game we were already qualified for the playoffs. Winning 6 in a row is hard enough to do and with every win the possibility to drop the next one becomes greater but pulling off two win streaks in one season is really only left to great teams who have that personnel.
Just like last year the Dolphins have to elevate their play and make up the lack of talent through emotions and their win-one-game-at-a-time attitude. Those emotions might have been gone last year in the last game of the season. We seem to be excelling with the backs to the wall and every game from here on out is "backs to the wall".
Having not have had a win streak this year it might be the right time and the opponents are not that superior. The odds are against the Dolphins but then again the opponents are not that great either. They are good but not great.
Saying that hoping for a little win streak is setting yourself up for disappointment is crap. As a fan you always set yourself up for disappointment by simply rooting to win and then losing. Elation and disappointment are part of fan life. If you can't handle disappointment of losing you do not deserve the elation of winning or if you root to lose just to avoid disappointment you are not worth enjoying the pleasure of wins.
For a fan hope always dies last and hope of success makes you a fan. Fans always have hope one way or another. In a crappy season you hope to beat your division rivals just to be a thorn in their sides. In a successful season you hope for the playoffs and if you reach them you hope for the Superbowl. In a win less season you hope for that elusive one win to avoid that 0-16 season.
Hope is what drives a fan, makes them comeback and makes them root for their team.
It is a sad state of affairs reading some of the comments on a Miami Dolphins fan board hoping for losses or simply avoiding hope because of possible disappointment.
I dare any of you to go to a home game and stand up and say "I hope we get blown out for a better draft pick" or "we have no chance anyways". You will be beaten out of the stadium - by Dolphins fans. The one thing which unites fans is the unified hope of the many.
If we go on a win streak and make the playoff berth I can enjoy it. If we don't make it than the disappointment will last a day or two and as soon as I watch the first playoff game my hope to make it next year is renewed. On the other hand you and some of the members here don't deserve to celebrate a win streak and a possible playoff berth. Because that would make you a bandwagon fan just like Pats fans are.