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&Mdash; There remains much to sort out about the Dolphins, because, well, it's only August.And it's early August, at that.
It's a cinch there will be more comings-and-goings through the revolving door of this year's high-speed training camp in the wake of 4 1/2 months of work lost to the NFL lockout.
But the Dolphins do deserve to feel at least a little bit good about themselves with the first pre-season game coming up Friday night in Atlanta, which will be exactly one month before the season-opener in Sun Life Stadium on a Monday night against New England.
(How swell of the schedule-makers, by the way, to send Miami into the 2011 season on a date with the Patriots, who beat the Dolphins twice last year and pounded out a 79-21 scoring edge doing so.)
No need to borrow trouble now, though, because the Dolphins appear to have done a nice job of roster reconstruction to this point.
And never mind choosing a side in The Not-So-Great Quarterback Debate, because it misses the point. It's true that incumbent Chad Henne isn't a headliner quarterback or even a particularly good one, but neither is Denver's Kyle Orton in the blessedly quiet he's-not-coming review of the situation.
The point that shouldn't be missed is that Miami has done some nifty addition and subtraction so far, and it was linebacker Karlos Dansby - a newcomer himself last year - who recently told me, "We've got some nice pieces. I think we can do some things."
The best things the Dolphins do figure yet again to come on defense where an upgrade at linebacker - Kevin Burnett as a Dolphins newbie in place of jettisoned Channing Crowder - is the most important change. But there is also the matter of the return of defensive end Jared Odrick, a first-round pick whose rookie season was lost to injury last year. And then there's pass-rush specialist Jason Taylor, who'll be making a third turn with the Dolphins.
It's all enough for coach Tony Sparano, who's job might be on the line, to admit that the defense could be "a pretty good group."
The concerns - as they have been since Dan Marino's heyday - are on offense.
The reconfiguration of the line continues as an annual work in progress, and there's big trouble ahead if star tackle Jake Long is hurt and not just resting on the physically-unable-to-perform list. There are moving parts in other places along the line, but what's new? And playing a rookie at center (first-round pick Mike Pouncey) is the very definition of risk.
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