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If Ryan Tannehill Is for Real, the Dolphins Are Finally a Force Again in the AFC

The Kansas City Chiefs are getting most of the love and attention, but there's one other unbeaten team in the AFC. And although they've yet to play a contender, the 3-0 Miami Dolphins should be taken seriously.

After all, teams that start 3-0 make the playoffs about 75 percent of the time, and the AFC wild-card race appears as though it'll be wide-open in 2018.

A playoff appearance would be a stunning result for a Dolphins team that went just 6-10 last year before losing three of its most important players—wide receiver Jarvis Landry, defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh and center Mike Pouncey—in the offseason, but there's one player the Dolphins have now who wasn't there in 2017.