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Dolphin Thought Questions, Questions, Questions……… So many questions are whirling around the team right now. Will Ogun re-sign? Will Ricky be fined or will he win the appeal? Will Feeley start? And if he does, will he be worth what we gave up for him? Will our O-line be what we need it to be? Will Wanny be able to bring this team back to the playoffs? Will Boston be the WR we need him to be? What will our offense be like this year? All these questions are legitimate questions. The problem is the answers won’t be given for a couple of months. So for now all we can do is speculate. Some other fans and I have been discussing how the media talks about the phins. About how all we hear is how bad the team is gonna be this year, and how stupid we are for picking up Boston. It reminds me in a way of how they said how good we would be last year. I don’t know how many articles I read last year, where the author would say how we would win the AFC and possibly the Super Bowl. I’ll be honest, it got my hopes up. I came into the season thinking only what the media was saying. I am now a more mature and intelligent fan. This year is different. I know a whole lot more now than I knew then. I am optimistic by nature, but not blind and dumb. The Dolphins have a lot of things that they need to figure out before the season starts. But it all starts with figuring out where this team wants to go. Do we want to be the Dolphins that we have been for the past four years or so? Ever since we lost to the Jags in the playoffs in ’99-’00. We have still had winning records but we all would agree the attitude of winning is gone. You can blame that on the coach or the QB or whatever you want. The fact is, we have to get the mind set of winning back. We have lost a lot of respect around the league. We are known as a soft team. We used to be a team that other teams would practice harder than usual when they were playing us next Sunday. Now we are just another team. I hate that. We need to come out this year, and bust some heads. Earn back the respect we have lost. I don’t care how we do it; it just needs to be done. And it starts in my opinion with our Front Office. We can’t take losing lightly. We have a team in our Division that has an opportunity to break our record for consecutive victories. We will be the ones they have to beat, in order to do it. That right there should give us enough motivation to come out and beat them up one side and down the other. The team stuff will take care of itself. The NFL will make its ruling on Ricky, Ogun will either re-sign or sit, and Boston will either play well or not. Our O-line will either protect our QB and give Ricky room or they will let our QB get crushed and Ricky get pounded. We will either be playing in January or we will be watching again. It’s the attitude that we can start working on now. Let the media talk and think what they want to think. But its not gonna come down to who looks best on paper. It will come down to who plays when its time to play. I hope that this team goes out this year and gets our respect back. I for one am excited about the possibilities and potential that this team has. Its time for us to go out and show why so many of us fans think we can win every week. I truly feel that if the questions this team has right now are answered and answered well, then this will be the “Year of the Fin”.
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