A Dolphins season of note

Holiday songs (slightly altered) tell the Dolphins story this year

Columnist Dave Hyde sets the Dolphins’ year to our favorite holiday music.

Forgive me. I know the holidays are considered the miracle season. But there’s only so far you can stretch the miracles for the Miami Dolphins in fantasizing their finish starting Sunday against the AFC West frontrunning Kansas City Chiefs.

You can, however, do something else this holiday season with the Dolphins to make their season less bah humbug. You can open your hearts to, “A Christmas Carol: The 2017 Dolphins.” Hey, when when Lin-Manuel Miranda first proposed the musical, “Hamilton,” few people embraced an 18th-century Founding Father without a father as a hiphop artist.

So let’s set this Dolphins season to holiday music and you’ll find yourself humming into the New Year. Consider this curtain-lifter to the season as set to, “Twelve Days of Christmas.” “On the first day of football, Ryan Tannehill tore his knee, And Jay Cutler played like a pear tree, On the second day of football, Lawrence Timmons let a no-show, Serve as his Opening Day hello ...”

This leads into the second act and most sordid story of the Dolphins season. Nonetheless, you can mask the problems of offensive line coach Chris Foerster if you set the lyrics to an upbeat, “Jingle Bells.” “Cocaine platter, cocaine platter, Who heard the term ere that day? Then came video from a Vegas woman, Of the line coach snorting away. Hey! …” The season kept going on, which is to say it

started sinking. The prime problem for this season has been scoring points, as coach Adam Gase’s choice of words showed, as the 40-0 loss to Baltimore demonstrated on national TV.

That led to the larger shock of trading running back Jay Ajayi, which gets sung to, “Joy to the World.”

Next up: Hope, Dolphins style. The annual three-card shuffle. Lose a game you should (at New England) followed by a couple wins at home (Denver, New England) that give the upbeat of hope. The Patriots win demands to be set to, “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.” And so here we are. Well, I am anyway. Kansas City. On Christmas Eve. In 18-degree weather. For a meaningless game. Let’s sing it to, “Deck the Halls.” There’s a chance for a miracle finish to the playoffs this Dolphins season. And isn’t

RICH BARNES/AP Santa Claus hasn’t delivered much in the way of unexpected presents to the Dolphin this season, but he was in the stands at last week’s game against the Buffalo Bills.

Dave Hyde