Miami Dolphins Team Report - USATODAY.com "Cold weather can be used as an excuse," said quarterback Chad Pennington, who is 8-8 in games he's started in cold-weather sites in December or later during his New Jersey-based Jets years. "Both teams have to play in it. I did it for eight years. It's really a mind-over-matter type of thing. Cold weather, that's what football is really all about."