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The Miami Dolphins, who stunk up the joint during the 1-15 season a year ago, are entering Week 11 with a winning record. That's right! Miami is just one game back of the AFC East lead.I cannot explain it. If you watched yesterday's Dolphins win over the Seahawks, you couldn't point to any reason they are 5-4 either. All three of their TDs came on trick plays. A flea-flicker produced a 39-yard touchdown pass to Ted Ginn while the Wildcat offense produced TD runs from both Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown. Aside from that, the Miami offense really wasn't anything to write home about.
The defense did come up with some huge plays -- not the least of which was a batted down 2-point conversion pass late in the game. But the Seattle receivers helped them out by dropping five passes ... including an easy would-be touchdown to Koren Robinson. Even that defensed 2-point conversion has aided by a Seahawks false start penalty on the previous play.
Who cares? Whatever they are doing has put them at 5-4 and in the thick of the playoff chase.
The Phins have now won three games in a row, five of seven and currently own the tiebreaker over the first place Patriots. That is nothing short of amazing. It isn't like there was a massive personnel overhaul after last year's 1-15 season, though nabbing Chad Pennington during preseason was quite a steal. Bill Parcells, Tony Sparano and that coaching staff have done a marvelous job changing the culture of the franchise.
Don't look now, but Miami has quite an easy schedule down the stretch. They get Oakland (2-7), San Francisco (2-6), Kansas City (1-8) and St. Louis (2-7) to go with rematches against the other three AFC East teams. If the Dolphins get by the Raiders next week, it sets up a huge meeting with the Patriots in Week 12.
Seattle, who has won the last four NFC West titles, is having a brutal season. They are mired in the division basement alongside the Rams and Niners (who have both fired their head coaches already) and have no relief in sight. Seattle hosts Arizona, Washington, New England and the New York Jets and must travel to Dallas, St. Louis and Arizona. That is a combined record of 35-26 (33-19 if you exclude the sorry Rams).
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