The Dolphins are still a developing franchise.

Incidentally, the Bills fan who sat next to me at the game (nice guy, very funny) told me in quite confidential tones that he knows someone who knows the Bills’ GM. He said when Drew was a free agent after the 2005 season, this GM tried repeatedly to contact Drew’s agent and arrange a visit and interview in Buffalo. He wanted Drew really badly, but didn’t even get a call back. Understandable, he said. Who’d want to play in that windy cold Buffalo weather when you could be in Miami or New Orleans?

a Super Bowl contender goes, I don’t think they’d be considered one any more than the Saints are at present. The Saints and Dolphins are actually similiar teams talent-wise, outside of Brees. Of course, you’d have to think had Miami landed Brees, they wouldn’t have spent two second round picks on QBs since, making them a bit more formidable on the whole.

I think last year, for instance, the Dolphins might have been able to be the top seed in the AFC if they’d had Brees instead of Pennington. This season, they could be 2-1 instead of 0-3. Or not. Doesn’t matter. Drew’s a Yat, now.

on most of your personnel assessments. Miami’s RB corps is far better than ours. Their WRs are of a similiar class, at least among those who actually see the field. Even their third best OLB (Channing Crowder) would start over either of the two chumps we pride ourselves on. DBs, nothing ridiculously one-sided there either. They have both the youth and veteran leadership we carry. I agree that there’s a reason they’re 0-3 and we’re 3-0. It’s because they’ve played three legitimate playoff contenders to open the season, two on the road, and lost their starting QB for the season to a torn rotator cuff in one of them. Care to guess how many wins the Saints would have eeked out under that scenario? Probably one, tops.

if Ginn, Camarillo and Bess were running routes on the Poydras Street carpet, you wouldn’t be able to detect the difference. The only guy we’d truly miss is Colston in the red zone, as none of them are that big. They’re all niche WRs. Serviceable talent, nothing terribly special. Remember, Camarillo and Bess weren’t even drafted. Ginn was a first round pick that took a couple of years to come into his own. Any of this sounding familiar?

I wasn’t including TEs. Fasano’s not bad, though. I think they still would have used the Wildcat, regardless. I think it would be even more effective in an offense that employs a top tier QB, provided he isn’t lined up wide, i.e., side-by-side with the alternate trigger man.

Oh, I don’t think he’d be running the Wildcat himself, if that’s what you meant.