End of the Tragedy?

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Chained and bound to the rock on the mountain with an eagle unhurriedly nibbling at his liver, Yanni’s football season can relate to the struggle of Prometheus. In scene one, his DelFL team and his beloved Miami Dolphins were as hopeless as Sisyphus. The Dolphins like the Prostie Thieves seemed destined for misery, and both remain last in their respective divisions. But Yanni hasn’t paid Charon yet, and like all great Greek protagonists, suffering is existential and an inexorable part of the story.

It was far easier to capitulate, but as a descendent of Thermopylae, Yanni and his Dolphins have not yielded. Yanni started by trading for Andy Dalton, who is a top 5 QB this year and Jeremy Maclin who is a top 15 WR. One of his bargaining chips was an injured Beast Mode, who currently looks more like a Beast talking to a candlestick and clock than one that is striking fear into NFL defenses. The other was a talented WR, Mike Evans, who is suffering an archetypal sophomore slump. Meanwhile the Miami Dolphins have finally defenestrated Joe Philbin, a coach unable to capitalize on the organization’s surplus talent. These maneuvers might fall short of a Deus Ex Machina, yet it is advantageous change, and both teams stand a better chance of success heading into the denouement.

No one trades more than Yanni in the DelFL. His wheeling and dealing have not always engendered success, but this is an Owner who has won two scoring titles in only four years. He might not win a third this year, but the eagle has flown away and Prometheus is unbound.