“The kicking was a strength and that’s about it,” said Kevin Rogers of 790 The Ticket in Miami during a radio interview on “The Mike Gill Show” on ESPN Radio 1450, Atlantic City.
When that’s the first thing you can comment on when looking for positives in a football season, you know you have a long way to go.
Miami was awarded an expansion team back in 1965 and has been on of the better franchises along the way. However, in 2007, the Dolphins resembled their 1965 expansion team much more than the competitive team they have been in the great history, finishing with a pathetic 1-15 mark and finding little positives along the way.
So the team brought in Bill Parcells to help rebuild this once proud franchise and right away he began to make subtle changes almost immediately.
The Fins have been a strong defensive unit in the post-Marino years, led by names like Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas. Parcells allowed both those veteran players to move on and now the defense must rely on Joey Porter to make plays on that side of the ball. Yeramiah Bell is an exciting player in the secondary according to Rogers but there isn’t much else to get excited about.
New coach Tony Sparano has named Josh McCown his starting quarterback…for now. He is competing with second year man John Beck and rookie Chad Henne. “If they can somehow get the quarterback situation figured out,” says Rogers, they have a good running game and could be okay offensivly.
The running game features Ronnie Brown who is coming back from major knee surgery and vagabond Ricky Williams who should see plenty of time in a reserve role. Williams as many know as been on quite the journey since his “retirement” from the NFL back in back in 2004. He has been to Canada and back to try and prove he can still play the game that made him fifth overall selection in the 1999 draft. Many people wonder if Williams can be counted on to help this Dolphins team. “People understand what he did, when he did it, said Rogers. “(Former head coach) Dave Wandstadt was running him into the ground.” So Ricky left and now he is back and according to Rogers looks “pretty impressive”.
Not many people will predict a playoff berth for the Dolphins but Rogers thinks they can win some of the close games they left slip away during last seasons 1-15 campaign and get to five-or-six wins this season.
Up Next : Seattle Seahawks
This is a series called “2-A-Days” that will preview two teams per day every day this month, where Mike Gill will interview a beat writer or radio personality who covers the team on “The Mike Gill Show” on ESPN Radio 1450 , weekdays from 3-6pm.
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