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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/football/pro/dolphins/sfl-flspskolnick26sbjul26,0,2168834.column

This has to be the First Time in My LIFE
That My beloved Miami Dolphins
Has been void of A star player

DAN carried the "STAR banner " for most of
my love affair with the FIN...
I mean the beginning of football season to me
is like summer vacation to 7th grade

but This season seem different
i'm a bit down on the FINS

Rebuilding is necessary but it s u c k s!(i guess i'll feel this way until
that first pre-season game)

MY question is who will stand up to become that star!!!

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http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/miami-dolphins/story/617893.html


Not since Don Shula put on those polyester shorts and black cleats and led his band of castoff and wanna-be players onto the Biscayne College field July 12, 1970, have the Dolphins been in a situation like this.

On that day 38 years ago, Shula began to rebuild from the ruins of Miami's first four unfulfilling professional football seasons. Joe Robbie's fledgling franchise had taken flight in 1966, but after soaring on its first play, a 95-yard kickoff return by Joe Auer, the team crashed to four consecutive losing seasons.

Out of that wreck, Shula rebuilt a champion.

And the Dolphins haven't really rebuilt ever since.

Until now.

Shula never tore the thing down once he got it built. He obviously didn't see the need to start again from scratch, and who could argue with a record that included playoff appearances in 16 of his 26 seasons.

NO MAJOR CHANGES

Successor Jimmy Johnson, for all his draft-day dealings and personnel acumen, never tore up the foundation Shula left him.

After all, Johnson inherited Dan Marino and O.J. McDuffie, Trace Armstrong and Tim Bowens, Richmond Webb and Keith Sims, so he gladly mixed those veterans with some draft picks of his own.

Dave Wannstedt never saw the need to start from scratch, either. He was too busy systematically destroying all that he was left.

Nick Saban? He talked about starting over but never really did it. He was too addicted to winning right away, which is why he added free agent veterans such as Kevin Carter, Vonnie Holliday and Will Allen and gave up valuable draft picks for Daunte Culpepper and Joey Harrington.

The folks last year came closest of the entire bunch to actually, seriously starting over. But that happened only after the 2007 season was pretty much lost and everyone realized Cam Cameron's New Day was really the franchise's day of reckoning.

So despite discarding veterans such as Randy McMichael and Carter and Harrington and Culpepper before the season, it wasn't until midseason that the Dolphins jettisoned Chris Chambers and finally began playing youngsters such as Ted Ginn Jr. and Jason Allen.
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Brown, Merling, Ginn, and hopefully Henne. I also think J. Allen will be a play maker in the secondary for years to come...
 
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