Talking points: Could Ted Ginn Jr. maul Bills’ pass D again?

Buffalo cornerback Terrence McGee has missed the last two weeks with a knee injury and sat out Wednesday’s practice. Anyone with a sense of history knows that could bode well for Miami’s hopes to get Ted Ginn Jr. going again. That’s where we start today’s talking points: 1. Could Ted Ginn Jr. recapture the magic against Buffalo again? When the Bills sent out a hobbled McGee to face Ginn at Miami last year, Ginn had one of the best games of his career, catching seven passes for a career-high 175 yards. McGee was trying to get past a knee injury then and he’s trying to do the same thing now. Ginn had only one catch for four yards in the teams’ meeting at Land Shark Stadium this year, and has caught more than two passes only twice this season. But one of those was a four-catch, 32-yard performance against Carolina last week, so there’s hope that Ginn and Chad Henne might be finding some chemistry. 2. This won’t be a trap game for Miami. After this weekend, the Dolphins play four of their last five against teams with winning records; the lone exception is Tennessee, which has won four straight and is playing as well as anybody right now. So I asked one player Wednesday if there’s any chance of a letdown this week. He looked at me like I was crazy. “We’ve got six games left

and we know we’ve got to do our best to win every one,” he said. Coach Tony Sparano isn’t one to allow letdowns anyway. But with the only losses in the past seven games coming against unbeaten New Orleans and New England on the road, it’s hard to imagine this group will allow itself to be seriously challenged by a struggling Bills bunch. 3. The Dolphins-Bills rivalry isn’t what it used to be. Rivalries tend to ebb and flow as teams’ fortunes go up and down. In the ‘70s, Miami won 20 straight games over Buffalo, making the Dolphins’ home game the biggest on the calendar for Bills’ fans. In the ‘90s, Jim Kelly and the Bills were consistently better than Dan Marino and the Dolphins, going 15-8 in the decade, which in turn got Dolfans aggravated. With the retirement of Marino and Kelly, the level of star power on both sides has taken a serious drop this decade, and the rivalry has lost a lot of its luster as a result. While the Dolphins appear to have gotten back on track, the Bills continue to founder, firing their coach and vowing to start over again next offseason. A Miami-Buffalo matchup still has its history. But this time around at least, it won’t have much more than that.

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