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OneGiantThrill · 06-05-2009, 04:27 PM

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Tim Graham of ESPN.com reports whether it be in Las Vegas or the various preseason power rankings all over the Internet, the New England Patriots have been chosen the AFC East’s team to beat for 2009.

Miami Dolphins outside linebacker Joey Porter takes offense. Porter declared Friday morning that the road to the AFC East title will come through Miami this year, and the Dolphins are the “champions until proven otherwise.”

“I don’t understand how you can put somebody in front of us,” Porter said Friday morning after he and quarterback Chad Pennington were named co-winners of the team’s Dan Marino MVP Award in a ceremony at Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant on South Beach.

“We won the championship. We were AFC East champions. I just don’t think it’s supposed to happen like that. You’ve got to beat somebody to be the champs. We had to beat somebody to be the champs.”

http://blog.theredzone.org/ViewItem.asp?Entry=1661

bm21 · 06-05-2009, 08:14 PM

Champs? Champs of what? Champs of the easy schedule, maybe, but that's all. Everybody's seen the wildcat now, so the surprise factor is gone. If Brady stays healthy, the Patriots will win the AFC East and compete with Pittsburgh, Indy, and maybe Baltimore and San Diego to go to the Superbowl. Sorry, Joey Motormouth, the Dolphins are second best, at best......