Dolphins sitting on a powder keg of energy because of the impressiveness of rookie class, and time itself seems to be the fuse. Seeing a lot of, "Good is really good, bad is really bad," from rookies. But the incidence & magnitude of the latter are earliest things to improve. Football is sequence math. What you do in this game, this quarter, this drive, this play, are all conditioned on what you did in previous games, quarters, drives, plays. It's all virtuous cycles and death spirals. If you sucked on 1st or 2nd down, you have a 3rd & Long, and you're more likely to fail on 3rd down. If you get down on the scoreboard early, the opposing team gets to lean on you, pin their ears back, and take advantage of the waning options on your play sheet. If your defense can't get off the field early in drives, they start to get tired, and it just gets worse from there. If you don't beat your opponent with a nifty move or a play call early, you don't have the option to take advantage of an over-correction later. There are too many ways football plays out exactly like that, everything sequential, everything path-dependent. And when you combine that with the "it takes all eleven" on any given play, where the chain is only as strong as its weakest link, this is why everything falls apart REALLY fast when your players have a super-high mistake factor. Even the really good, really promising rookies have high mistake incidence. What you're hoping for with those guys is they also have a high percentage of really good tape. That's the old Bill Parcells saying, "if they don't bite as puppies, they don't bite." He never expected rookies to just not screw up at a high rate. Everyone knows that's going to happen. What you're hoping for is they also show how talented they are. I don't mean to keep picking on the illegal shift penalty where WR Chris Bell couldn't get lined up against the Chiefs, which wiped a TD off the board, but it's a prime example. You can watch the All-22 of Bell and see lots of plays where he gets open, looks really compelling. And then you can also see plays like that, which are the equivalent of a pick-6 in terms of total effect on the scoreboard. Both things are happening at the same time, and neither one of them can just be glossed over for simplicity's sake. There are all kinds of ways a young player can make a mistake that has a huge impact on the game, whether it's not knowing your blocking assignment resulting in a sack-strip, missing a coverage assignment resulting in an explosive play, failing to get lined up on a play that would have been a touchdown, etc. We're talking about basic failures that are catastrophic for a game as tightly-choreographed as football. And since the game is so sequential in nature, those failures echo over and over throughout the game and season. The volatility makes the sequence math fall to pieces. The point is when it comes to the development of young players, those sort of pure "oopsie" mistakes are typically the earliest thing to cure in the development curve. And since the game is so tightly choreographed and sequential by nature, lowering that volatility of outcome has an exponential impact. Thus I wouldn't be surprised if some of the Dolphins games later in the season look very different from the beatdowns they've received at the hands of three undefeated teams early in the season.