I've ignored talking about most of the football offseason since it's been largely uneventful. Okay, that's not really true -- with Gibbs coming back to coach, and with the huge Bailey/Portis deal, and the movements by the Eagles to get Kearse and TO. The only notable Pats info was Ty Law's Hungry Man Tour, and even that's now a wash.

But here we go into training camp, bodies will fall, rosters shuffle, and we'll get to see what depth means. And the biggest offseason story of all can't go without notice here, even if only for schadenfreude for the Phins, is seeing Ricky Williams walk away. Lots of coverage everywhere, and great coverage by the usually unbearable Dan Le Batard (actually, unbearable is unfair -- in recent years, with the Dolphins out of the playoffs, he's been a fun read for me) with the scoop of Ricky finding himself in Jamaica and the reason he failed to pass the NFL pee test, and continued standout coverage by Mike Florio. Mike will be the Matt Drudge of football journalism. Not in the smarmy way that Drudge is Drudge -- just that he will be the one to break the big story before too long.

Training camp starts tomorrow for the Pats. And the worst offseason ever for the Dolphins comes to a close -- reminds me of the post Super Bowl '86 Pats implosion, or heck, most of the Pats years prior to the Kraft salvation. Or that horrible pre-season game when the Pats lost stars Garin Veris, Andre Tippet, and Ronnie Lippet. One of those "I'll always remember where I was..." moments, sadly enough. I was actually standing right about where this picture was taken.