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Invariably, it’s almost always more fun reading columnists from towns where the weekend did not go as planned. The goodness (from the badness) this week?

—Dan LeBatard in the Miami Herald on the debut of the Miami Cam Camerons:

“The Miami Dolphins are football’s version of the movie Groundhog Day, without anything nearly as interesting as Bill Murray to dilute the redundancy. We’ve been watching the dreadful game we saw Sunday for more than five years now. It is fatiguing enough to be bad, but on top of that the Dolphins keep stacking a forever growing pile of boring, too. Miami opened its season with a 16-13 loss to a bad Washington team in overtime, the Dolphins’ offensive huddle looking no better than it did before alleged wizard Cam Cameron fumigated it. Sunday was not anything that games are supposed to be — not entertaining, not stimulating, not any kind of interesting.”

What? Ted Ginn didn’t bring the cure to what ails Miami? Shocking. That’s a long road the Dolphis are on. Particularly puzzling? The continued slide into worse than mediocrity from Ronnie Brown.

—In Kansas City, Jason Whitlock sounds a more hopeful note than one might expect in light of the Chiefs’ horrible start to the season:

“Kennison’s early departure (and Bowe’s hands) hamstrung Mike Solari’s playbook. Solari’s opportunity to adjust was blown up when the refs counted Williams’ fumble-return TD.

Hey, I’m not arguing the Chiefs should’ve won this game. That’s not true. But Kennison’s injury and the blown call compromised KC’s shot at being competitive. Trust me, the Chiefs can compete with the Texans. And this Sunday, the Chiefs might be able to lock the Chicago Bears in a low-scoring offensive struggle, too. The Chiefs have two good backs, a physical offensive line, and I liked what I saw from quarterback Damon Huard.”

Sweet jeebus, I know that column! It’s just like any of infinity +1 written about the Bengals following bad loss after bad loss during the 90s. Good luck with the rationalizations, Chiefs fans. It’s a bitter meal.

—In Phildadelphia, in the aftermath of a game where the Eagles’ repeated inability to field punts cost them the game in Green Bay, Rich Hofmann in the Daily News has these thoughts:

“But they spent draft capital on this Bloom, and then they worked with him for a year after he got hurt, and then they spent the whole summer watching him catch punts flawlessly but get taken down by the first guy who breathed on him. Despite all of their efforts, they determined it wasn’t going to work. And after they cut him and wished him well in his modeling career, they looked around and saw – nothing.

That the Eagles had no backup plan when they cut Bloom was organizational negligence. That they then decided that it would be a swell idea to open the season with Lewis back there (who had never done it), and with Reed back there (who had never done it), it was borderline arrogance. It was as if they were saying that anybody could catch a punt – after years of telling us that Mahe’s sure-handedness was such an important quality, that it made up for the fact that he never broke a return. And now we know that not anybody can catch a punt. Boy, do we know.”

Indeed. The gut-wrenching thing about that game for Eagles fans? It’s damn hard to get back games that are simply fumbled away. Particularly winnable games. And that was a game that the Eagles could and should have had yesterday in Green Bay.