Historically bad Dolphins and the trouble with tanking
Historically bad Dolphins and the trouble with tanking The Trouble With Tanking Frustrated with a string of middling seasons, the Miami Dolphins have gutted their roster, settling for historically bad football in the present with the hope of potentially great football in the future. The goal: to horde precious draft picks. The question: Can a teardown of this magnitude pay off in the NFL? During one of the historically bad losses, in what is on pace to be a historically bad season, there was some mercy in the fact that the Dolphins’ home crowd started streaming out of the stadium after a fourth-quarter pick-six. That meant there was a smaller audience for the second one, which came four plays later. Like all four of the Sunday afternoons for the 2019 Miami Dolphins so far this season, this one played out more like a blooper reel. On the Patriots’ second defensive touchdown of their Week 2 visit to Miami, running back Kalen Ballage, wide-open after running a simple route into the flat, ...