This might be seen as blasphemy by some, be decried as flagrantly premature by others or be plainly misinterpreted by most, so I will tread carefully.

What we saw of the Dolphins on Monday night — if it was real, if we can believe it — means Miami now has what could be the best all-around, most interesting and hardest-to-defend offense in the franchise’s 44 seasons.
Yes, I am aware I speak of a team with a 2-3 record, led by a quarterback with two NFL starts in his career.
Yes, I faintly recall Miami won a couple of Super Bowls back in the distant day.
Yes, I have heard of Dan Marino.
No, I was not heavily medicated while writing this.
(Dear editor: Please do not fix a “Dolphins offense is greatest ever!” headline atop this column or I’ll be out at 5 a.m. desperately stealing papers off lawns like in Absence of Malice, forgetting about that little thing called the Internet.)
The obvious caveat is that best-ever-anything demands consistent proof over time. What I’m saying, right now, is that the offensive model we saw Monday — the prototype working to near-perfection — looks scary-good and, well, flat-out exciting.
Last week’s 38-10 rout of Buffalo and then Monday’s 31-27 thriller over the New York Jets means the Dolphins have scored more points in consecutive home victories than at any time since midseason 1993. But that’s anecdotal. I’m not talking statistics here. I’m talking potential. What could be.
UNLIKE ANY OTHER
Bear in mind, the Dolphins’ greatest offenses have been one-dimensional.
Miami won its championships in 1972-73 with a feared ground attack personified by Larry Csonka’s brute force and Eugene Morris turning corners as quick as Mercury. Experienced fans will remember how Zonk would run for yards carrying tiny defenders, like a rhino trotting the Serengeti oblivious to the birds on his back. There were no illusions how those Dolphins intended to beat you. Bob Griese needed to throw but 18 passes — total — in the two Super Bowl victories.
Miami’s other signature offense, of course, was Marino sending missiles to his Marks Brothers. I’ll never forget asking Marino, late in his career, to name the greatest running back he had here. He paused. Muttered, “What the bleep you want me to say?” Hesitated again, at length. Finally, he said Tony Nathan, but the point was Marino never had a feared ball-carrier to provide balance. There was no illusion: Those teams were going to try to beat you through the air.
Seen for the first time Monday night:
The 3-D Dolphins.
The three dimensions: A rushing attack leading the league in ground yardage and time of possession. A Wildcat variation that is more varied than last year and continues to befuddle opponents. And now — voila! — a quarterback, Chad Henne, with a strong enough arm to give the Dolphins a vertical presence, even without a top-tier receiver.
Do the Dolphins still lack and need such a wideout? Absolutely. You saw Monday alone what newly acquired Braylon Edwards meant to the Jets. One salivates to imagine an Anquan Boldin or Vincent Jackson in Dolphins colors, fully empowering the offense. But Monday night’s game suggests enough else is going to make amends in the meantime.
Look at all of the elements that dovetailed with near-perfection against a Jets defense considered very good.
TOP-FLIGHT IN TRENCHES
The offensive line, the best Miami has had in many years, left to right, top to bottom, dominated and shows signs of being a top unit.
Ronnie Brown, third in AFC rushing atop a Pro Bowl year, seems close to being the “elite” back he envisioned himself as, at least in terms of all-round contribution.
Ricky Williams is enjoying a renaissance at age 32, when most running backs are winding down or wearing out.
The ever-expanding Wildcat, which helped bury the poor Jets, at one point Monday saw four players — Henne, Brown, Williams and Pat White — take snaps during one series.
Who can blame the sour grapes from Jets linebacker Calvin Pace?
“I’m going to be honest, I can’t respect that stuff. All that Wildcat,” Pace said of the truck that ran him over. “We’re in the NFL, man.
“If you’re out there running that nonsense, it’s crap.”
Yeah, Cal. All that dad-blasted innovation! It’s such crap that most every other team, including your own, is trying to duplicate it, but failing to do it as well as Miami.
(I also love that Pace has so many opinions in his first game back after serving a four-game league suspension for using illegal dietary supplements.)
The change in all of this, the thing that makes Monday’s prototype so complete, is Henne’s emergence.
STRONG-ARMED STARTER
We now realize how truly subpar Chad Pennington’s arm strength was by contrasting it to what Henne brings — and what a palpable difference that makes.
A 53-yard touchdown pass to Ted Ginn? Any quarterback able to make Ginn look good is OK in my book.
Vanquished Jets coach Rex Ryan groused that his defense “made that quarterback Henne look like Dan Marino.”
Maybe. But you know what helped? The offensive line that kept Henne’s uniform spotless, the ground game that churned yards and clock and the Wildcat plays that had guys such as Pace wearing tutus and doing pirouettes.
The Dolphins’ prototype 3-D offense — smashmouth ground game plus Wildcat plus strong-armed young quarterback — isn’t assured of always working quite as totally and as beautifully as it did Monday night.
Meantime, though, anticipation is it owns reward.