Dan Le Batard: It’s hard to feel good and trust Miami Dolphins when so many mistakes have been made
By Dan Le Batard
dlebatard@MiamiHerald.comIt is difficult to see things clearly in this purgatory. Your eyes are filled with the odd combination of hope and mistrust. A man betrays a woman for a decade, she’ll be armed with skepticism when he shows up with flowers and chocolates promising yet again to change. But here’s the thing: Dolphin fans want so badly to believe in this kind of romance, which made last week feel like wowing and wooing despite all the baggage and scars, and now anyone who cares about this team is stuck between wanting to think things are fixed and not trusting the people doing the fixing. It is quite the oxymoron — pregnant with anticipation, hoping not to get screwed.
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We don’t know
In football especially, talent evaluation is so subjective we really don’t have any idea if the Dolphins got better last week. We know they got different and younger. But better? It is impossible to know. And it is worth pointing out that all these exciting, new solutions came in just as all the expensive, old alleged solutions were leaving. If you distrust, it was like General Manager Jeff Ireland was playing one of those street-hustler shell games, moving pieces around so fast on a table, hoping to trick you into believing it was real magic instead of a con.
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Such an odd marriage, hope and mistrust.
Can somehow make the draft feel like the solution even though it has been the problem.
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