Dolphins Fall to 0-3, Who's to Blame?

What a difference a week makes. Last Monday, the Dolphins were relishing in the glitz and glamor of Monday Night Football. Landshark Stadium was filled with countless celebrities and a sell out crowd of Dol-Fans in hopes of a long playoff run. This Monday, the Dolphins are 0-3 and devoid of their quarterback. This has the potential to look like the 1-15 year, where we witnessed the many rookie quarterback mistakes by John Beck. But if you look at it closer, no matter what you think of Pennington, he was the guy that kept everyone on track to do their job. Now we are back to square one of the 2008 pre-season before Pennington fell into our laps. When we were experimenting with Josh McCown and Chad Henne to see who takes over the reigns of Dolphins quarterback. Except this year it's Chad Henne and Pat White. Who knows, maybe Henne could be the next Flacco or Sanchez. Why not? But then again this team hasn't had good fortune since they drafted Marino.

People can look at this debacle of a season so far and blame it on a number of things: Chad Pennington's lack to stretch the field, Tedd Ginn's stone hands, or the pathetic pass defense. However, I believe it is the 2008 11-5 season. Everything fell into place, we got Pennington, we played the abysmal NFC and AFC West, and Tom Brady was out. Last year created buzz and high expectations that simply cannot be met with this team, especially with this schedule. People tend to forget we are in year 2 of a 4 year rebuilding process.

So lets go back one week ago, the Dolphins followed the exact blueprint to defeat the Colts by dominating time of possession, but they lost. That game sucked the life out of this team and yesterday at San Diego just continued the Dolphins woes. Monday Night Football was the turning point of the season and yesterday was just the icing on the cake to a lost year. A year that never should have had these high expectations in the first place.