Everything can change for the Miami Dolphins this week. It is a fulcrum moment for a football franchise reduced to regional size but now so close to going national again, so close to making the one statement fans have longed for seemingly forever.
“The AFC East is ours now. Miami is in charge, not New England.”
This is not hyperbole. Neither is it certain to happen. But there is a chance, and it is real in a way we have not seen or felt since Dan Marino left and the Fins mostly stopped mattering beyond South Florida.