The Miami Dolphins are 1-3 and that's ugly. Miami is the first NFL team to fire its coach this season and that's ugly. The Dolphins are in the cellar of the AFC East and everyone else in the division has a winning record and, yes, that's ugly too.
So think of the Dolphins as that ugly mutt you give your heart to despite his fleas and scraggily hair. Because that is figuratively how Dolphins football czar Mike Tannenbaum is looking at his team.
He likes them. Still.
"First and foremost it's four games in," Tannenbaum told The Miami Herald Thursday.