The Miami Dolphins' Remaining Schedule

Any hopes of the 2007 Miami Dolphins somehow rebounding for a playoff spot have now given way, after five weeks gone in the season, to simply hoping to avoid the worst record in the team's proud history. Miami went 3-11 in their initial year in the National Football League, 1966, and they will be hard pressed to win that many games this year. They have not been dominated statistically, but they simply have looked clueless when it comes to crunch time. They have been blown out by the Cowboys and Raiders, but have lost by a field goal to the Redskins, Jets, and most recently the Texans. Here's a look at the Miami Dolphins remaining schedule.

Miami travels to Cleveland to take on the Browns in Week Six on October 14th, and this looks like one of the few winnable games left for the team. However, they will surely be an underdog in Ohio, and if they do not win this contest, they will not have another chance to do so for almost another month. They get the juggernaut Patriots at home in Week Seven, and despite a track record of playing New England tough over the years, they will not have much of a chance against this year's powerful Pats' squad, even on their own turf.

The Dolphins then have to travel to, of all places, London, to battle the New York Giants in Week Eight. It is listed as a home game for Miami, but all that means is they will have their choice of uniforms to wear as the Giants, who are in the thick of things in the NFC East, will wear them down and leave England with a victory. new England or Old England, both will result in losses for the Dolphins, who at this point may as well have the helmeted mammal jumping through the hoop on their helmet logo at quarterback. Mercifully, Miami has its bye week following their overseas trip, and they will need to use it to regroup as the Bills will be coming to town for Week Ten, which is one of only two games the rest of the way that they figure to have a chance in.

Week Twelve sees Miami going to Philadelphia, where the Eagles, who may or may not be in the playoff mix, should have enough to dispatch them. After that probable loss, a sure one awaits them in Pittsburgh on a scheduled Monday night game, one which ESPN certainly hopes they can dump in favor of a better matchup, November 26th. Miami begins its December portion of the schedule with a home game on the 2nd against the Jets, a team that beat them earlier in the season by three, so this could be a victory, possibly the first of the entire year!

Buffalo in December is never a pleasant prospect, and it will be even less thrilling if Miami hasn't yet won, as this means that the Bills have already beaten them in Florida and should handle them in upstate New York. The rest of December gets much worse, with the Ravens in the Sunshine State on the 16th, a journey north for a beating at the hands of the Patriots on the 23rd, and a finale against the Bengals on the 30th to end a year and a season that Miami can't see end quick enough. The only team to go through an entire NFL campaign undefeated now faces the prospect of going winless, a proposition that gets more plausible with each passing loss.