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There's now the sense of a team expecting the worst.
That's not the same as a sense of surrender, and it's important to make that distinction about these Dolphins.
About these 0-6 Dolphins.
About these Dolphins who somehow turned up 18-15 overtime losers to an improbable Tim Tebow-led Denver comeback Sunday.
The nuts-and-bolts summary is that Tebow, who previously had done very little right, did enough good quarterback stuff late in regulation and during overtime to pull the Broncos out of a 15-0 hole.
It was a storybook conclusion for Tebow-maniacs on a day when the Dolphins had scheduled a celebration of his college glory at the University of Florida.
The truth of the matter, though, is that Miami greatly aided its own demise, failing to cover an onside kick while holding a late 15-7 lead and then losing an overtime fumble to set up...