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New Dolphins Coach Will Experience Doubt

Miami Herald

Jeff Fisher, as if to underline his credentials for heroically rescuing those in need, stopped his vehicle the other night outside Nashville to lend aid to two teenagers who had been involved in a single-car accident. True story.

A few days earlier Fisher could have come to the rescue of two other men also involved in a wreck and perhaps in even greater need — Stephen Ross and Jeff Ireland, their wreck the Dolphins — but the coach of course chose the St. Louis Rams instead. Another true story.

The experience and the proof personified by Fisher headed west, bound for the Gateway Arch.

What remains, the let’s-hope and the might-be, is what the Dolphins are left to consider this week before likely naming a new head coach as soon as...

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