Even that one is luke warm. "Maybe the Dolphins won't suck?" The way that the national media has just decided, en mass, that the Fins are going to be worse in 2018 than they were when everything went wrong a year ago is just so messed up. When we do better than they expect, they'll say what overachievers the team are, but that they're going to collapse, just wait!
We play almost entirely 1pm starts this year. From 2012-2016, the Fins have gone 31-25 in those games. Not dominant, but certainly not bad either. That includes 18-14 at home and 13-11 on the road. That averages out to almost nine wins every sixteen games. I think that the national media gets caught up in how badly the team plays in Prime Time - especially away games, and it seriously colors their perception. But when not put into the most difficult situations, the team has been just fine. There is zero logical reason, barring RT being unable to play, to think that the Fins will be a 6-win or poorer team.
The thing they're missing is that Ryan Tannehill was healthy towards the end of last season- he was running bleachers pre-game with almost no restrictions. And of course they forget how badly he was abused in the early parts of his career- the guy took hundreds of brutal hits and popped right back up. So this "if he's healthy" stuff is pure BS...he's definitely healthy. Now, you could say "unless he takes a hit to the knee and re-injures it", but you'd also have to say that about every other QB in the league. If a 300 pounder pops you full speed in the knee and you bend wrong (which gravity says you will), then the knee is going to buckle and something's probably going to tear. If RT's knee is fully healed like they think, then his odds are the same as any other QB's for a knee injury.