We see this every year, some people never learn.
Teams change EVERY off season.
You can't make too many assumptions based on how they did the PRIOR season.
Remember opening day last season?
The Dolphins were projected to do GREAT based on the prior year & Tannehill being such an up and coming young QB,
the Redskins were DOGS based on how they finished the year before.
We just barely beat the Redskins, & they went to the Playoffs and we turned out to be the dogs.
I remember posting this very thing after that game.
The Browns might completely turn it around with Hue, the Dolphins might finally get motivated with Gase.
The only thing we know for sure is that the Dolphins will not start to be be favored in most games until they have a winning record DURING the season.
There is no reason why they can't beat the seahawks on opening day if our QB performs up to par.
The one thing I am concerned about, is that if they have a losing record a quarter of the way in, the vets might start to dog it with Gase & company