It's important for those participating in sports to embrace an idea where all participants are respectful, not just for each other, but for the history of the game.
Remember where you came from and forge ahead with those same principles.
With that said, I think the Miami Dolphins should take a dive for the rest of the season.
Lay it down, completely. Let the other team get ahead and run the ball the rest of the game. Throw errant passes at your receiver's feet. For God sakes, turn the ball over!
None of this will be too hard for them to do because these are all things they've been doing while they have supposedly been trying to win games. Well, stop trying and just keep the goose egg in the win column until the draft in April when an opportunity to finally turn this franchise around will present itself to the glorified losers.
Andrew Luck has been the can't miss prospect, future franchise quarterback, for the last TWO years. That's never happened before. He's the future face of the team that drafts him for, at least, the next decade.
Who's been the face of the Dolphins since Dan Marino? Jason Taylor? Ricky Williams? Hell, Jay Fiedler? I'm a Dolphins fan and not even I can tell you who the face of the franchise has been since Marino.
Luck is smart, he's a Stanford product, and he's got a freakish arm strength/accuracy combination that makes pro-bowlers out of people like Davone Bess and Brian Hartline, two of Miami's slot receivers.
I fully embrace the "Suck for Luck" campaign.
You wouldn't trade one year of animosity for a decade of contending for titles? I'd do it in a heart-beat.
Think about it: If the Dolphins win out, that puts them at 10-4. First, winning out isn't improbable, it's quasi-impossible for this team. Second, even at ten wins, a play-off spot is far from guaranteed. They won ten games before and missed the play-offs. A ten win season could potentially keep Miami out of the play-offs and still stick them with a late first-round pick.
Then where are they? Another lost season with-out so much as a glimmer for future success.
However, if they just hold back a tad bit more than they are right now, they can go win-less and lock down Luck and automatically give the team tremendous upswing. Then it's just a matter of ditching Tony Sparano, which should happen NOW, and bring in a proven winner for a head coach. Cough, cough, Bill Cowher.
You think Cowher will turn down a chance to live in South Florida coaching a team with the best college prospect in, probably, forever? Not a chance.
The Henne-Sparano experiment was a huge failure on the field, that much is clear now. But the Henne-Sparano experiment will be a gigantic success if it directly leads to Luck-Cowher.
I understand that in proposing to go win-less, you are asking 52 men to surrender their pride and swallow their dignity. But this is the same team that's lost seven straight games dating back to last year. Their only creativity is in the ways that they come up with to lose each week. How can they have any pride left anyways? Wouldn't they be proud standing on the podium in a couple of years, holding the Lombardi trophy?
NFL teams have a very short memory. Years from now, when Luck is racking up MVP awards and passing titles, who is going to remember the team in 2011 that couldn't win a game?
Winning really does cure all ills and I'll certainly look back at this season and laugh as the Dolphins are three-peating championships.
I'm sick and tired of the failed decisions of the Miami Dolphins over the past decade. The mistakes piled up like we had a "Bad Decision" making machine that just spewed out head-slaps all day. The drafting of Ted Ginn, the decision to pass on Matt Ryan, choosing Daunte Culpepper over Drew Brees, trading Wes Welker, and on, and on, and on.
The irony of it all is that this time around, the key to winning it all--is to fail. Fail hard and fail often.
Do it gracefully and with honor. Hell, you can even make them close games. Just don't win.
"Suck today, Luck tomorrow!" - The Official Campaign of the 2011 Miami Dolphins
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