When you put on the type of embarrassing performance that the Miami Dolphins displayed last Sunday on the road against the Indianapolis Colts, you can’t expect to be taken as a serious franchise in the days following your epic failure.
Before the season started, ProFootballTalk graded the Dolphins as the 29th ranked team in the National Football League. Some — myself included — laughed at the ranking. After all, how could a team that barely missed the playoffs the year prior, despite their starting quarterback being sidelined six games, only be ranked ahead of three teams in the entire NFL?
Well, life comes at you fast.
After being decimated by the Colts by a score of 33-8 last Sunday, the Dolphins tumbled all the way to the bottom of ProFootballTalk’s rankings — landing squarely at #32 ahead of Week Two of the NFL season.
The Dolphins rank just behind the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers, and Cleveland Browns. To be within that grouping of teams, let alone at the bottom of that group, should be a wake up call to head coach Mike McDaniel, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, wide receiver Tyreek Hill and the rest of the leaders of the Dolphins.
It is still my belief that the Dolphins are not, in fact, the worst team in the National Football League, however if they continue to stumble when playing the New England Patriots on Sunday — a team that lost 20-13 to the Las Vegas Raiders last week — then I may need to rethink my expectations for what the 2025 Miami Dolphins are going to be more than I already have following Week One’s shellacking.
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