The upcoming NFL playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Miami Dolphins features two teams not expected to have enjoyed success, experts said. Few NFL experts predicted at the start of the 2008 season that either football franchise would enjoy a positive year as the Dolphins were coming off a disastrous 1-15 2007 season and the Ravens had endured a 5-11 year. Yet despite a 2-4 start to this season, the Dolphins turned their season around and finished with an 11-5 record.

MIAMI _ We have been here, right in the same place. Seen this. Heard that. Watched each new Dolphins head coach introduced grandly as the man to finally restore a proud football franchise's battered image. "This time we mean it!" is forever the unspoken assurance. "This time we finally got it right.

Cam Cameron was fired as coach of the Miami Dolphins on Thursday by new boss Bill Parcells after only one win in his first season. The dismissal means the reeling franchise will have its fifth coach in five seasons in 2008. Parcells began work Dec.

Shoes and other equipment filled 4-foot-high bins in the Miami Dolphins' locker room Monday, signaling the start of the offseason. Another sign: upheaval in the offices upstairs.

Ricky Williams arrived at the Miami Dolphins complex riding in a team van late Thursday morning, ready to resume his NFL career after a 1 1/2-year suspension - if the team wants him. Williams' suspension ended Wednesday when he was reinstated by the NFL.