All I Want For Christmas Is Some Dead, Grilled Steak

No offense to driftin, who hails from Texas. Incidentally he does have horns so that about settles that.

The Titans are eliminated. The Eagles will handle the Broncos today and the Steelers, I know in my heart of hearts, will defeat the Ravens.

This of course will make next Sunday's game against the Steelers an honest-to-goodness, non-cliche, playoff game.

Oh. I forgot. We've never beaten the Texans.

Without resulting to concepts such as "being due" I'll make my bold proclamation right here. The Dolphins will beat the Texans today.

The Andre Johnson Thing

That is taking into consideration how a mobile quarterback and the best wide receiver in football will somehow not destroy the Miami secondary. Granted, Vontae Davis and Sean Smith have risen to the occasion nearly every time they've faced a top flight receiver.

What I don't like is how top flight Andre Johnson is. I'm not sure he can be stopped and so I'll waive the white flag and say that if the Phins can hold him to a TD and less than a hundred yards they've got a shot.

Point blank: They won't cover him.

The Trenches

What they can do is pressure the QB and this has never been more necessary that today.

On the flip side the Phins protection has to step up. Mario Williams and company are very good, as is Demeco Ryans at the linebacker spot. Lousaka Polite and base protections are going to have to spring Williams for some big plays. The Phins have to get back to looking to the run game for big plays and alleviate some pressure from Chad Henne.

Chad Henne

And speaking of Spartacus Cannonarm, the leash needs to come back out. While I fully believe this is a future Pro Bowl QB, he is still essentially a rookie and playing with a average receiving corps. One of the bigest keys today's game will be to get Henne back to a Pennington-esque game managing style game where big plays develop organically instead of being forced.

Trick Plays Welcome

The cute shit hurt us lots in some previous weeks but I'm going on the record here saying that a reverse or a true wildcat formation (with White at QB and Williams as the "cat") would be welcomed by me. Hell, I'm even for it at nail biting times.

The bottom line is that the Dolphins are still a team that needs an "x" factor. We're close to being a team that can simply line-up and beat teams up on both sides of the ball but close, as they say, counts in games other than the one we're concerned with.

So all that said, here's to a perfect Sunday in Dolphins world. I saw it in the crystal ball so rest assured it will happen.