Is the Dolphins' roster any sexier?

My latest RealFootball365.com column doesn’t compare Jason Taylor’s looks to say Tom Brady’s. This is about football…

Head coach Cam Cameron dramatically altered the face of the Miami Dolphins this offseason, and his reconstructive surgery likely isn’t even finished yet with Trent Green stranded in Kansas City and growing grayer by the minute. Considering the Dolphins’ playoff drought, five seasons and running, the face of the franchise desperately needed to go under the knife. On the surface, that face is looking sexier. Change can be hard to evaluate, however, especially when rivals are also making significant adjustments in preparation for the upcoming season.

That’s the one question that seems to often slip the mind of both Dolphins fans and pundits: How much have the Buffalo Bills , New England Patriots and New York Jets improved?

It doesn’t matter how good you look if the three girls you room with are even sexier. What I mean is, you can only see the Dolphins’ big picture when you look at the entire AFC East.

Read the rest of the article for my take on the division, which is basically that I don’t believe the Miami Dolphins can compete with the New England Patriots and New York Jets right now. I do expect progress, however, just not too much within the AFC East. On a positive note, I do think the Phins can beat the Buffalo Bills twice this season, and the Jets aren’t drastically superior talent-wise. The Patriots are just on a different level, though. Hey, the Pats are on a different level, at least on paper, than every other team in the National Football League. That includes Peyton Manning and the defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts. I think Brady and Co. could legitimately go 14-2 this season.

Prognostications this time of year are worth about as much as a you-know-what on my elbow, but that’s the way I see things as of today.

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