The train is on the tracks … don’t get run down.
Rock bottom is the exact time a team in the National Football League will bounce up with a big effort … sometimes that stream of success can run for a while. Last season, the Los Angeles Rams hit rock bottom after losing four of their first five games. They then went on a terror that had them be the first team to win a division title after losing four of their first five games and once in the playoffs they crushed the Minnesota Vikings after the Sam Darnold led team had won 14 regular season games. The next week, Los Angeles gave the eventual Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles their toughest challenge in the playoffs.
This year, the Baltimore Ravens lost five of their first six games and last Sunday, even without starting quarterback Lamar Jackson back in the lineup, covered a bloated point spread set when most figured he would return to action.
It wasn’t yet his time to return.
Tonight is.
The Ravens are favored in Miami against a Dolphins team that won on the road last week against the Atlanta Falcons, 34-10. That triumph by the Dolphins was so far out of their character one must wonder what is on the other side for them. The Dolphins have won only two games this season, their other victory was five weeks ago over the New York Jets in a game somebody had to win, and it turned out not to be the Jets.