NFL Week 10---The Miami Look
Soooooo close. And yet, sooooo far. Miami gets to 0-9 by allowing Buffalo to play awfully and win to get to 5-4. The Bills, I am sure, are very appreciative.
The Miami Herald columnists are starting to get challenged in looking for the right adjectives to describe the mounting carnage. You first, Armando Salguero:
"All this losing obviously didn't agree with Jesse Chatman, so midway through the first quarter of Sunday's Dolphins game, the running back excused himself from the Miami huddle and, on his way to the sideline, lost his breakfast and everything else he'd eaten before the game.And what Chatman left there on the turf, around the 30-yard line, was a picture of this Dolphins season.
Ugly. Smelly. Rotting.
That's where we are now that Miami has proved beyond reasonable doubt that it is the NFL's worst team by losing 13-10 against the beatable Bills and, in so doing, remaining the NFL's only winless team."
That's a nice list of adjectives. And an even better visual. Maybe Miami can put a package together to Cleveland to get Brady Quinn from them...
Speaking of Miami quarterbacks, why in the world can't rookie second round pick John Beck get on the field? Greg Cote, you try to figure it out:
"Why does a QB change so terrify this coach? Beck is an ''old rookie'' at 26, and not a piece of porcelain who might be irreparably shattered by adversity. Figuring out whether Beck is the next Marino, a bust or whatever shade in between is all that's left that matters this season (other than avoiding 0-16, and since Trent Green and Lemon have both failed to avert that wreck, why not let somebody else drive?)Two very tough road games, to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, happen next. I can see Cameron justifying the babying of his rookie by keeping him under wraps and insulated from those two hostile environments. But if Beck isn't playing -- starting, learning, growing, revealing the future -- by the next home game, against the also-woeful Jets, it will constitute a grievous stubbornness and malfeasance by Cameron. And it will beg that chanting to grow until it's just about all you hear."
As it should.
