I love it how everybody writes off the Phins...
And the season hasn't started. If anything this guy article only proves that NE should be worried because, one they're fully healthy and two they're coming off a Superbowl victory. Recent history alone has shown that it's harder for Superbowl winners to repeat as champions, and NE both times they've won it all, had serious injury problems early in their season and overcame them. As much as NE, clearly looks like the early favorite and may very well repeat, I could easily see them going 9-7 or 7-9 and missing the playoffs this year. It happened before, it can happen again.
Futhermore, There's been several articles floating aound about how Miami will be fine w/o Ricky and you have to at least consider it a strong possiblity... why.. Because we haven't done **** with Ricky here and have done more w/o him. DW got too complacent and dependant on Ricky while underusing Konrad, McMicheal, Minor, and Chambers. If you look at our offense two years ago in Ricky's first year here, we were extremely successeful offensively early in the year and unpredicatable when we passed the ball around. As Ricky porgressed and we depended on him, our offense became more predictable and vaunerable. As a matter of fact, even in the early part of the 2002 season, our offense was unstoppable in the first half of the game and slowed in the second half as we played "ball control, Run Ricky Run offense". It seems that we just adopted that second half game plan for the entire game in the 2003 season, whcih made the O inneffective. Now we have no choice but to go back to involving everyone in the offense and mixing it up. So I wouldn't write off Miami yet. Nor will I write off the Bills or the Jets, especially with new coaching and Chad Pennington back respectively.
Us Miami fans need to be very excited cause we know we it wont be run ricky right, for 3 yards, short pass to Chambers on second down, then run ricky left on third or screen to ricky on third. That's a relief to me.