Given their results in the first two weeks of the 2011 NFL season, it'd be hard to believe the Miami Dolphins are excited about Sunday's business trip to Cleveland for a battle with the Browns.
Then again, given what's progressed in South Florida so far, staying home might be worse.
The Dolphins have reeled their way through two games at Sun Life Stadium, giving up 61 points and 967 total yards in losses to New England and Houston while quickly plummeting to the bottom of the pack in the so-far successful AFC East.
Head coach Tony Sparano's team is the only division member to lose this season, having already fallen two games behind both the Patriots and New York Jets, but also two in back of the league's biggest early turnaround, Buffalo.
The defense's struggles have been particularly unexpected after the Dolphins were 14th in points allowed and sixth-best among the NFL's 32 teams in total yardage surrendered last season.
"It's baffling to me," Sparano said following last Sunday's 23-13 loss to Houston. "It really is. I don't have any answers for it. We've got to do a better job."
