Jets-Dolphins: A Preview of Things to Come

Last night was Chad Henne's coming out party. And Mark Sanchez already came out. I think that last night we witnessed the beginning of what will be the marquee AFC East matchup for the next 10 years. It appears that both teams have found franchise players at the two most important positions for long-term success in the NFL with left tackles D'Brickashaw Ferguson and Jake Long along with the aforementioned quarterbacks, Henne and Sanchez. Both teams have found very good personnel people with Bill Parcells running the show in South Beach and Mike Tannenbaum making the decisions in New York. Of course, the Patriots will always be good as long as they have the head coach-quarterback combo of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady but how many more seasons of high quality Brady can we expect? He turned 32 last August so maybe 5 and even that would be pushing it in my estimation because he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to keep going into his really late 30s and into his 40s ala Warren Moon and more recently Brett Favre. Last night's game wasn't just a great game with no relevance. We're gonna look back at it and point to that being the beginning of two future powers in the AFC East and the NFL.