Maybe you forget, but the Miami Dolphins were 1-0 last season, too.
They had gone to Los Angeles and squeezed out a victory against the Chargers in the fourth quarter. And everyone thought that meant the Dolphins were picking up where they left off the year before when Adam Gase’s first group somehow banded together to make the playoffs despite not being exceedingly talented.
It didn’t turn out that way.
No one on the outside organization knew it at the time, but those Dolphins who traveled to New York for the second game were weighed down by a lot of baggage.