It’s hard to sustain real rivalries outside of just being division rivals nowadays. One of the teams in any given rivalry usually fall apart within 3-5 years now maybe sooner.
They don't play often enough to develop one long term outside the division.
While Miami might have won 2 of the last 3, the Patriots have basically dominated the Dolphins and the rest of the AFC since Belichick and Brady joined the Patriots. Even though neither team have been very good over the last few decades, I have always considered the Jets vs Dolphins a much bigger rivalry than the Dolphins vs Patriots and I still do.
Agree, I think most Phins fans would agree that is our true division rival. This is written as a perception based on a national observer level for peeps who aren't a fan of the team and don't know our storied history against those effin green bastards. Man, I hate em...
I guess that National observer hasn’t been to a Dolphins VS Jets game to see how much animosity the fans of each team have for one another. Not to mention that the players on the Dolphins and Jets don’t care for one another much either.
I remember Phins/Jests in the OB days.
It can happen if two teams constantly finish first ( which means they’ll play each other the following year) and play in the playoffs consistently. the last such rivalry was Indianapolis/New England and New England/Pittsburgh. Carolina and Seattle were getting like that but Carolina kind of fell apart.
