No team in the history of the NFL has rallied from a 1-7 start to make the playoffs, or even found a way to finish with a winning record.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Realistic hope is gone. For the second time in three years, the Miami Dolphins are 1-7. No team in the history of the NFL has rallied from such a start to make the playoffs, or even found a way to finish with a winning record. That means it’s time to look forward. The Dolphins have nine games left to decide — in no particular order — if Brian Flores remains the right coach, if Tua Tagovailoa remains the right quarterback, if just little tweaks are needed or if yet another dismantle-and-rebuild project is the answer for a franchise that hasn’t won a playoff game since 2000. “I do see some things we can build on,” Flores said Monday. One of the answers to the looming questions will come before Tuesday’s 4 p.m. trade deadline, based on whether or not the Dolphins decide to consummate the long-discussed trade with the Houston Texans for embattled quarterback Deshaun Watson. The 2020 NFL passing-yards leader has wanted a trade for nearly a year, and hasn’t played this season in large part because he stands accused of sexual assault and harassment by 22 women who have filed lawsuits against him. Watson has not been charged. The rest of the team’s answers will come over the next 2½ months. “I don’t think this trade deadline, to me, really means anything,” Tagovailoa said after Miami’s loss in Buffalo on Sunday.
