The Miami Dolphins have dropped to 0-4, but they’ll be able to partially right the ship in Week 5. It won’t be a win, but a non-loss is close, right?

The Miami Dolphins are in dire straits as the season is a quarter of the way over and, despite some bright spots on the team, they have no victories to show for it. But rest assured, Week 5 is looking promising for a better outcome.

I dug back into the archives looking for any indication of bye weeks of yesteryear, and what I found was astounding. In the past ten years, the Miami Dolphins have not lost in a single one of them. They’re perfect in all those bye weeks. That’s just amazing.

Now typically, the bye weeks fall between Weeks 4-12, and every year it’s different for when a team will have theirs.

This year the Miami Dolphins had an early one. It’s usually beneficial for a team to have their bye toward the middle or end of the season. A later bye allows hurt or injured players extra time to heal up and rest before the team goes live again.

Strangely enough, the time of the year has not affected the outcome for the Dolphins at all. I don’t want to jump to any conclusions, but it’s almost as if not playing a game at all ensures that a team won’t lose. That might require some further research, though.

Unfortunately, the non-loss won’t appear on the overall record, which is a bummer. But maybe I’ll tell myself that the Miami Dolphins are 0-4-0-1: no wins, four losses, no ties, and one non-loss. I wonder how that would factor into the draft order?

Anyway, I think I’m willing to make my bold prediction for this week. The Miami Dolphins are not going to lose in Week 5. The history backs up that crazy claim, and I’m riding with it.