At the beginning of this season, the Dolphins looked at one of the toughest schedules in NFL history. After 5 weeks, that seems to have gone away. After losing their first three games, the Dolphins have taken out divisional foes Buffalo and New York, while the Patriots have lost two games. One of those games was against a Jets team which the Dolphins upset on Monday night. Looking at the rest of the schedule, the Dolphins have obvious divisional opponents, the 3-2 Patriots twice, the 3-2 Jets, and the 1-4 Bills. The teams with the best records remaining on the schedule are the New Orleans Saints (4-0) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (3-2). The combined records of the rest of the teams is a whopping 5-19 including two winless teams in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Tennessee Titans. Combining everyone, that's 19-29. Just to put it in a little perspective, the three losses the Dolphins faced in the beginning of the season were against the Falcons, Colts and Chargers. Those three teams have a combined record of 10-3. It looks like the hardest part of the schedule came in the beginning of the season, and with eleven games remaining, the Dolphins could easily make a push at the playoffs by going 10-1 or 9-2. (Dolphins started 2-4 last season, and won 9 of their last 10 to win the division last season) So lets go Phins! Use this bye to prepare for the Saints, take them out and then decimate the remainder of this so called hardest schedule in the NFL. Make them look like chumps!
man that superbowl has done wonders for that team, before that win, they were a decent NFL team, after that, they became ELITE. Eli does not even have an elite wr and that team is still destroying teams...Eli has became an elite QB in the NFL
I would put the Colts and probably the Saints up there with the Gints. I have been mentioning for weeks that this "Toughest Schedule" is nonesense. Until they lace em up and play the games, nobody has any idea of who is gonna be good or not. All that being said, we lost to three good teams, including barely losing to an elite team in Indy. I think we have as good a chance as anybody at winning our division, and as I predicted before the season, I think we win 5 Division games
I think this is the plan .... win two of the next three (Saints-Jets-Pats), then we'll be 4-4. Then, sweep the Bucs, Panthers and Bills to get to 7-4. After that: Pats/Jags/Titans/Texans/Steelers Of those five, we need at least three to have a chance at the playoffs. To win the division, we'd need likely four (and the loss can't be against the Patsies). 10-6 to 11-5 could be possible if we keep this up ..... could!
Clearly. I mean, didn't we play like the Raiders, Seahawks and Chiefs like three in a row last year - or three outta four!
Great observation. I told everyone before the year the "hard schedule" is irrelevent because that could easily change. Patriots, Titans, Bucs, Panthers, Texans and even the Steelers look a whole lot easier now eh.
Yet another reason why year after year, I plead with folks not waste their time trying to predict future matchups or entire seasons ahead of time. There's a reason why coaches, players, and handicappers take it one game at a time.
The Steelers look beatable, but they've also been playing without Polamalu. Yes, one player does not make a team, but that man is scary good. You can't really evaluate them until he comes back. Thankfully we get them at the end of the year where there will be plenty of tape to study.
WOW, really puts things in perspective Really like our chances after last night and reading what you just posted! If we are going to win just 2 of the next three, more important to get those wins against the Jets and Pats. Put us 4-0 in the division with another Buffalo and Pat game. I think we can be prepared for NO and beat them. We showed we can beat the Jets defense and theirs is better then the Pats. The key is to do something VERY fast about our passing defense. But if we can make good showings against Brees and Brady, we are really set up for the end of season run to repeat as AFC East Champs.
