Miami Dolphins: Why they should be power ranked 32

The Miami Dolphins actually moved up one spot in the ESPN Power Rankings after week five. They should be ranked 32nd.

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ESPN’s rankings show the Dolphins up one spot to 29 after their thumping at home against the Tennessee Titans. They must have felt the Jacksonville Jaguars are worse as they now hold the one spot advantage over the Cleveland Browns.

The thing is, the Dolphins wouldn’t be able to beat the Jaguars the way they are playing. They can’t rush the passer, can’t cover receivers, can’t stop the run, and have no offensive continuity.

In fact, the Dolphins should be ranked dead last. Two games behind the Jaguars and one game behind the winless Cleveland Browns. Why? For starters, the Dolphins only win which came against the dead last Browns, was a win only because the Browns were too cheap to sign a real place kicker.

Three missed field goals is why the Dolphins won that game. The Dolphins did not win that game.

While ESPN doesn’t have Miami dead last, that could change by their next rankings. Miami plays Pittsburgh and Cleveland plays Tennessee.

The Dolphins are simply a bad football team and the argument to whether they are the worst team is very much alive. Miami is looking more and more like the 2011 squad than Joe Philbins horrible team of last year.

One of the biggest problems is that head coach Adam Gase is trying to impose his offensive system on players that don’t really fit his system. Vance Joseph is the same on the defensive side of the ball.

Gase’s offense can’t function without a solid offensive line and the Dolphins have no offensive line. It’s one of the reasons Gase jettisoned three of his lineman on Tuesday. Don’t be surprised if more players are axed in the coming weeks.

Compared to the Jaguars, the Dolphins are statistically worse in almost every category on both sides of the ball. Cleveland is better than the Dolphins in several areas as well. The Jaguars however have only played four games so perhaps that is why the factored in one spot below Miami.

In the race for who gets to waste the first overall pick in next years draft, the Dolphins are fifth in the group of nine, yes 9 teams that have only one win through five weeks of play.

And to think that five weeks ago I opened the season putting the Dolphins at 14…notice I haven’t done anymore since then.