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Power Ranking: No. 27

Walker’s vote: No. 27

Analysis: I agree with Miami's placement. The Dolphins are solid on defense but could struggle on offense. Is Matt Moore the starting quarterback? Is it David Garrard? Who are the wide receivers? Miami patched some holes in the draft but certainly not enough. The Dolphins have a long way to go before they are a contender. Expect 2012 to be a rebuilding year.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/41737/power-rankings-afc-east-struggling
 
Not surprising and not really unfair.

We still have alot of work to do. With the exception of Tannehill(who is going through his own learning curve) our quarterbacks dont know the West Coast offense, which notoriously takes awhile to nail down. Even in Tampa Bay's superbowl run it took Brad Johnson about half the season to learn the terminology.

I believe we will be to tough a team to be picking in the top 5 next year. But i could see us picking in the top 10 even if we win 7 games or so.
 
Guards and WRs is what we're lacking on offense. Really, every other position seems pretty good...obviously there are going to be some growing pains with learning a new offense but I think the talent at TE is good, both tackles (Long and Martin) I think will be pretty good, Center is good, we've got a stable of RBs with Bush, Thomas and Miller it's just the WR corp and the Guards IMO.
 
We have unproven Wrs right now so yes we are struggling in that position other than that we did improve a lot of areas we were weak on
 
They said the same thing (Miami will struggle) before we went 11-5, following a 1-15 year. Screw the haters.
 
It's all opinion based off interpretation of events. I never get worked up about power rankings, the proof is in the pudding, when Miami starts winning on the field the ranking will sky rocket.
 
So basically it would be nice if it was May 1, 2013 so the Dolphins would have a chance at winning as opposed to it being 2012 with them winning four games this year?
 
I have no problem being ranked near the bottom, but this clown James Walker has no football knowledge whatsoever.
 
Zounds said:
I have no problem being ranked near the bottom, but this clown James Walker has no football knowledge whatsoever.
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James Walker???? Wasn't he on Good Times????

 
We are not picking in the top 10 next year. Have you seen the QBs we are playing?
 
MadDog 88 said:
We are not picking in the top 10 next year. Have you seen the QBs we are playing?
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Pro-bowler Matt Schaub. Runner up rookie of the year Andy Dalton. Former pro-bowlers Carson Palmer(who we tried to acquire) and Matt Hasselbeck. Former rookie of the year Sam Bradford. Alex Smith, who we tried to sign. First overall pick Andrew Luck.

Only ones that are arguably bad are Arizona(Kolb or Skelton), Jags(Gabbert), and Seahawks(Flynn, who we tried to sign and i wouldnt call a bad qb).

Those are our out of division opponents. Patriots have a hall of famer. Bills upgraded their team with a sick passrush and protection for Fitzpatrick. Then, of course, the situation with the Jets.

This year will be no cakewalk. Very competant teams, many of whom had a misleading record last season. The Rams are a perfect example. Bradford looked like a stud his rookie year. He then goes into the Josh McDaniels "lemme see if i can injury my qb" playbook, gets injured and struggles in a system that takes a few years to lockdown(Orton struggled, and got injured, his first year in the system on a more talented Denver team). As well, can anyone honestly say the Rams aren't greatly improved after this offseason? Anyone think the Seahawks will be worse with the signing on Flynn and return of Sidney Rice?
This schedule has some favorable match ups, but this will not be a easy year. Anyone hanging onto what we did 5 years ago with a similar schedule is doing those teams a injustice.
 
27? Disagree. I don't think we'll make the playoffs, but I don't see us picking in the top 10 again.
 
They should have put us 32nd. Who cares what they list us down as..

We'll surprise everybody this year including people on this board.
 
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