Just when it appeared bleak- nearly hopeless- for the Miami Dolphins, it just got bleaker. And no, I am not talking about the skies over London, where they are set to face the New York Giants next week. It was reported today that Ronnie Brown, who has been the lone bright spot in an otherwise dismal season, will be out for the remainder of the season after learning the grim results of the MRI on his damaged right knee. Brown injured the knee in third quarter of Sunday's shellacking versus the New England Patriots, while chasing down Patriots defender Randall Gay after a Cleo Lemon interception. It was not reported however, if anyone named Murphy was involved in the play in question. No, there was no Murphy on the field on Sunday, but Murphy's law seems to have dictated the course of events this year in Miami.
It's been that kind of season for the Dolphins. If could get worse, it does. And so continues the dismantling of Miami's offense: Brown and starting quarterback Trent Green lost to injury, and starting wide out Chris Chambers to San Diego via trade. Two former Pro-Bowlers and a rising star gone, all in the course of a couple of weeks. Hey, at least they got a 2nd round draft pick and his salary off the books with Chambers. The other two leave nothing but question marks: Trent Green's career is very much in doubt, suffering his second serious concussion in as many years; and it remains to be seen just how bad Ronnie Brown's injury is.
What's next for the offense-poor, weary Dolphins? A long plane ride across the Atlantic, where they will face the league's hottest defensive unit in the Giants. Lambs to the slaughter? It is the NFL, and anything can happen in any given week- but that anything that could happen to the Dolphins may just be another disastrous bump in the long road that is this season. A long road that just may bring about more losses. Really there's only thing to play for now (besides pride, or the first pick in the draft), and that's not to become the first win less team in the history of the 16-game season. What a shame it would be for the Miami Dolphins, the team famous for its unprecedented and unmatched perfect season, to set a precedent of another kind all together- an unblemished record on the other end of the spectrum. So as they slog through the rest of the 2007 season, looking for their first win the Dolphins may want to take note: Weeks 10 and 14 find them facing the Buffalo Bills, who boast a tight-end by the name of Matt Murphy. What better way to exercise the demons of Murphy's law than by defeating Murphy himself? Maybe there is something else to play for this season after all.
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