Please help me with this. What, about the Dolphins, tells you that they will have double digit losses?
Next season is next season, so whatever any did this past season doesn't mean Sh-t going into the new season. It is how the team drafts, who they get in free agency and how they gel. Far too many teams have made it to the Superbowl, lost it, and haven't even made it back to the playoffs the following season.
The point I am trying to make is just because you had a "successful" season before doesn't mean you are just automatically gonna have one again.
The scheme the Jets employed on defense took advantage of what they had. That doesn't mean that individually had better personal (not including Reeves). The Dolphins have Mike Nolan who has plenty of experience turning a D around. And please let me not hear one Jet's fan say otherwise regarding that a D coordinator can't perform a miracle, because he (Rex) did just that with the jets this season.
This is an otherwise moot point. Whatever our teams do this off season will impact what happens next season, not what the teams did last season. If you are of that mindset then there are going to be some disappointed people out there.