Leave it to the Dolphins to help spice up an otherwise boring afternoon. The 0-7 team, which should have better things to worry about the day before a game against the surging Chiefs in Kansas City, has issued a statement refuting not a published report or something from a national TV broadcast but an apparent…

Like Giants quarterback Eli Manning, the first pick in the 2004 draft, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck has a father who played pro football.  Though Oliver Luck, former West Virginia quarterback and current Athletics Director in Morgantown, didn’t enjoy the same success as Archie Manning, the elder Luck spent half a decade as an NFL quarterback.…

In his weekly radio show, which once upon a time streamed on the Internet but which has since been restricted to the Indianapolis airspace, Colts Vice Chairman Bill Polian (did he ask for the most sinister-sounding title possible?) said that quarterback Peyton Manning remains on the active roster not so that he can play in…

It’s the midpoint of the season, sort of.  Eight weeks are in the books, but only eight teams have played eight games.  For the other 24, the season won’t hit the turn until next week. And while we’re starting to get a feel for the good teams and the bad teams and the in-between teams,…

The Colts continue to search for rock bottom. The Titans are back over .500. What else did we learn during Tennessee’s 27-10 win Sunday? 1. Chris Johnson is now a useless appendage on the Titans offense. When the game was on the line in the fourth quarter, Johnson mostly watched Javon Ringer from the sideline.…

After the Dolphins allowed Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow to run in a game-tying two-point conversion on Sunday, multiple Miami players said they had the wrong defense called. That sounds like an indictment of Dolphins defensive coordinator Mike Nolan, and so it probably shouldn’t be surprising that Nolan said the fault really lies with the players.…

Dolphins tight end Anthony Fasano isn’t happy with “sick” fans of the team, who want the won-loss record to be sufficiently bad to secure dibs on Andrew Luck.  Fasano and at least one teammate also aren’t happy with the franchise’s decision to celebrate Tebow’s college team during a Dolphins home game. “[I]t was awful,” Fasano…

The Dolphins are 0-6 on the season, 1-12 at home since December 2009.  And plenty of Dolphins fans are trying to put some “fun” in dysfunction by hoping, privately and/or publicly, that the team loses enough more times this year to earn the privilege of drafting Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. Members of the team don’t…

The item from MDS regarding the personnel who were assigned to try to keep Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow from converting a game-tying two-point conversion underscores the extent to which the Dolphins bungled its defense against the play everyone knew was coming — shotgun formation, snap to Tebow, brief hesitation, run into the line. Considering that…

On paper, Week Seven didn’t present an overabundance of compelling contests.  But no matter how interesting, or otherwise, the games look on paper, there are always plenty of things to discuss. For our purposes, there usually are 10. It’s funny how it works out that way. 1.  Ross shouldn’t want Urban Meyer, and vice-versa. It’s…

Andrew Luck will enter this year’s draft with more hype than any quarterback prospect perhaps since John Elway. With that hype comes leverage and a certain amount of power when the draft process gets going.  Albert Breer of NFL.com joined Florio on PFT Live Thursday to talk about Luck’s options for possibly determining his next…

Last week, Rosenthal and I disagreed on four games:  Eagles-Redskins, 49ers-Lions, Panthers-Falcons, and Bills-Giants. And I picked the Redskins, Lions, Panthers, and Bills. Rosenthal now leads by six games.  The bastard. For the week, he was 11-2.  (I was 7-6.)  For the year, he’s 63-27 and I’m 57-33. This week, we disagree on three.  So…

The Miami Dolphins have lost all five of their 2011 regular-season games.  With a revolving door at the quarterback position since Dan Marino retired a dozen years ago, plenty of fans are hoping that the marine mammals sink to the bottom of the NFL’s ocean, in the hopes of landing a guy who would help…

As the “Suck for Luck” campaign moves from simmer toward full boil, there’s a caveat.  If sucking for Luck creates the impression that the franchise sucks too badly, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck could make an Eli Manning-style power play. Albert Breer of NFL.com reports that some in league circles are concerned that Luck and his…

1.  Packers (No. 1; 6-0):  Brett Favre will be surprised at how long the cork stays in the champagne bottle of the ’72 Dolphins. 2.  Ravens (No. 6; 4-1):  They might be the only team that can beat the Pats in the playoffs, and that can stay within 20 of the Packers in the Super…