DR. Z'S FORECAST

Paul Zimmerman

October 20, 1997

I'd been reading all that stuff about how Dan Marino was going to be cut or traded or benched, so on Sunday I showed up at the Meadowlands to watch the Dolphins-Jets game and see for myself what the wreckage of this once-great quarterback actually looked like. What I saw was a guy who operated on New York like a surgeon, finding the creases when the Jets dropped and played coverages, going to his hot reads against the blitzes so quickly that the coverages couldn't catch up.