As you might have read at the top of my column in Tuesday's Miami Herald the Dolphins practice facility will be the headquarters for the AFC Champions the week before the Super Bowl.
And so Miami players had to clean out their lockers to make room for another team -- a better team -- to come in and use the space before the Super Bowl.
The truth is the entire practice facility will be on lockdown the week the AFC champs are in town. No Dolphins players will be allowed to work out in the weight room or use the training room. And the second floor of the facility, while open to Miami staff, will be locked up in certain places so folks like Tony Sparano or Bill Parcells or Jeff Ireland won't be peeking at the AFC champions' practices.
I've been told it is possible Sparano will give his coaching staff that week off so as to limit the insult of not having full run of the facility and also maximize the efficiency of the weeks they are working on post-season evaluations.
"That's crazy and what really hurts is you look up the street and see the Jets made the playoffs," Dolphins safety Yeremiah Bell said. "I mean, we beat them twice this year. But at the saem time, they earned it. They found a way to get it together at the end of the year and get themelves in. It is what it is and we'll try again next year."
Can you believe it?
There is a possibility -- a small one I admit, but a possibility nonetheless -- that the team using Miami's facility will be the New York Jets. Yeah, the same team that scoffed at the Dolphins twice this season after Miami beat them twice.
There's also a chance the team using the Miami facility will be the New England Patriots. The Patriots have an easier road to the Super Bowl than New York as they actually will have at least one home playoff game when the tournament begins this weekend.
The fact of the matter is four three of the six teams in the AFC playoffs beat Miami this year -- San Diego, Indy and New England. Baltimore and Cincinnati did not play the Dolphins in 2009.
And then, of course, is this usavory irony: One of the coaches that might be using the Miami facility before the Super Bowl? Baltimore offensive coordinator Cam Cameron.
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NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES MAYBE THIS WILL STING ENOUGH TO BE A WAKE UP CALL AND FOR GODS SAKE CUT GINN AND WHITE AND SURRENDER THE # 12 PICK SO WE DONT TAKE ANOTHER GINN OR WHITE AND THEN HAVE TO PAY THE MONEY AND HAVE UNREASONABLE EXPECTATIONS
Posted by: JOE C | January 05, 2010 at 08:36 PM
Mando,
Where is all this "notebook full of stuff?"
Posted by: carlito from golfito | January 05, 2010 at 08:56 PM
carlito,
what's the best way to cook oxtail ? i thought the best way to sear it then bake it in the oven covered with little wine untie the meat fell off the ............BONE .
Posted by: ALoco | January 05, 2010 at 09:10 PM
IT'S SAD WHEN THE SEASON ENDS TOO SOON FOR OUR BELOVED DOLPHINS BUT WE MUST REMAINE HOPEFULL THAT IN A FEW SHORT YEARS WE CAN FIN A PLAY MAKER TO GIVE US HOPE TO ADVANCE TO THE FIRST ROUND OF PLAYOFF .NOW BACK TO OXTAIL .
Posted by: ALoco | January 05, 2010 at 09:19 PM
"Meh... I could really care less about this... Is Gibril fired yet???"
NO SH*T BROTHER!!!! LMAO!!!!
Posted by: Po White Trash | January 05, 2010 at 09:35 PM
WHY I FEEL THAT THE CUBAN MENCE WAS NEVER MARRIED AND LOVES TO GO MEET WOMEN IN THESE COIN LARGE LUNDRY MACHINE PLACES .
Posted by: ALoco | January 05, 2010 at 09:36 PM
Aloco,
sear it and then cook it with butter beans, potato, and carrots with pimento spice and other things and eat with rice.
Posted by: carlito from golfito | January 05, 2010 at 09:42 PM
THANK YOU .
Posted by: ALoco | January 05, 2010 at 09:52 PM
Ah, the ironies of the playoffs...Thanks for the updates Armando :P
Posted by: Bendiesel | January 06, 2010 at 12:20 AM
carlito
you said it!!!
is ginn fired yet???
Posted by: band wagon express | January 06, 2010 at 12:27 AM
we signed ryan grice-mullins,played w/bess at hawaii.
Posted by: Zach | January 06, 2010 at 12:50 AM
bye ted(wet vaginas for hands) ginn!
Posted by: Zach | January 06, 2010 at 12:52 AM
Zach , Big phucken deal !!!
Posted by: Ted Ginn | January 06, 2010 at 01:14 AM
Is dez bryant the real deal?
Posted by: Bigwillystyle | January 06, 2010 at 01:39 AM
I say leave turds in the toilets and make certain every locker has a few roaches and some old rotten food under it.... set the irrigation system to come on during their practice and lock the box... have a dog show on the field two days before and fail to pick up the poop.... that should make the place just like Home to any of those scumbags...
Posted by: Derek in WPB | January 06, 2010 at 01:40 AM
Omar kooky lol @ whoever came up with that one
Posted by: Bigwillystyle | January 06, 2010 at 01:41 AM
Wow Armando, slow week, huh? Who cares who's in the locker room for the Super Bowl?
Posted by: Dolfan in Connecticut | January 06, 2010 at 08:43 AM
I hate the Jets!!!
Posted by: METALPHIN666 | January 06, 2010 at 08:45 AM
Rex Ryan looks like a pedophile.
Posted by: METALPHIN666 | January 06, 2010 at 08:46 AM
you trying to ruin my day armando? trying to make me depressed?
Posted by: smirish | January 06, 2010 at 10:07 AM