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In 2008, I wrote an article as to why the Miami Dolphins could contend that year. They did. I predicated that argument on the idea that the Dolphins needed to incorporate all of their running backs into the offense, and for then-Miami quarterback Josh McCown to play like Trent Dilfer.
Strangely enough, the Dolphins would sign castoff quarterback Chad Pennington and trade McCown to Carolina. The Dolphins would also install the Wildcat offense in order to utilize running backs Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams.
I am not taking credit for what Tony Sparano and Bill Parcells did. However, in retrospect, I feel prescient in what I opined, and that I was thinking the way a Hall of Fame coach would think.
In a random aside, I have also taken Wonderlic practice tests and earned a perfect score. The meaning of that is highly questionable, but I could not resist the chance to say it.
Anyway, the Detroit Lions are currently in a similar situation as the Dolphins were after 2007.
A struggling team that did not win more than one game that will go into the subsequent season with a quarterback controversy that commonly does involve a castoff quarterback from the Raiders (Culpepper and McCown played for the Raiders in 2007).
In 2008, I compared the 1-15 Dolphins to the 1-15 Panthers of 2001, because that team went from 1-15 to 7-9 in 2002 and then appeared in the Super Bowl in 2003.
In this article, I will compare the 0-16 Lions to the 2-14 Bengals of 2002. After all, the Bengals revitalized in 2003 with quarterback Jon Kitna and a record of 8-8.
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