Two at the bottom

The Browns and Dolphins share dismal records and questions about their future.
MIAMI (AP) -- The coaches who started the year in Cleveland and Miami resigned long ago, and their replacements each face uncertain futures.
The quarterbacks that began atop the depth charts are injured and done for the season. And both teams have already locked up last-place finishes.
Indeed, this one sounds nothing like a ready-for-prime-time matchup, but that's the stage the Browns and Dolphins -- a pair of 3-11 clubs -- will share tonight in perhaps Miami's last home game before LSU's Nick Saban takes over as coach.
Miami is coming off Monday night's stunning 29-28 upset over defending Super Bowl champion New England. Cleveland, meanwhile, has lost eight straight games -- the league's longest current skid -- is 0-6 on the road this year and has been outscored 100-22 over the past three weeks.
"Man, we're 3-11. Who the hell are we going to overlook? Who are we to overlook somebody?," said defensive end Jason Taylor, Miami's only Pro Bowl selection this season. "Just because we won a ball game, we squeaked one out, doesn't mean all our problems are fixed."
What they have in common
The teams share the AFC's worst record. Each has 15 players out for the season with injuries. Both rank near the NFL's bottom in scoring, yards and turnover differential, and were out of the playoff picture weeks ago.
The schedule makers never could have imagined those plot lines when setting up this game.
"We're the only team in the league that's played in blizzards the past two weeks," said Browns wideout Antonio Bryant, a Miami native. "It's like the devil was out there on the field with us. I don't know too many people who'd go out in those kind of conditions and give it all and bust their butt, but we've done that."
Finally, some good news: It won't be snowing in Miami tonight.
Outside of that, it's been a whirlwind of troubles all year for the clubs. Dave Wannstedt resigned as Miami's coach in November following a 1-8 start and rampant speculation he'd be fired. Butch Davis stepped aside in Cleveland three weeks later, having lost 18 of his final 26 games.
Jim Bates took over for Wannstedt and has won two of five games, which represents Miami's best run of the season -- and his style had players openly campaigning for his retention as the team's permanent coach, although they knew Saban was far-and-away the team's top choice for the job.
Bates doesn't want to get wrapped up in talk about Saban and the future.
"When I started the main focus was to prepare this football team, to improve this football team and to give this team a positive outlook as far as with a tough year and with everything that's taken place," Bates said. "And that is still my objective. A week from Sunday, we'll talk more about this."
No joy in Brown-ville
Fellow interim coach Terry Robiskie hasn't had anything to cheer about in Cleveland, and is concerned the Browns will have trouble finding motivation for the season's final two games.
"It's a tough situation to grab a football team and say 'Come follow me,' " said Robiskie, also part of the last game with two interim coaches -- he led Washington past Arizona 20-3 on Dec. 24, 2000. "I think it's almost impossible to get those guys to follow you anywhere if they think you're only going to be here three weeks, six weeks, eight weeks."
Rookie Luke McCown will make his fourth straight start for Cleveland, having taken over when a knee injury ended Jeff Garcia's year. McCown is 39-of-81 for 447 yards, three touchdowns and five interceptions in the last three weeks.
Miami starter A.J. Feeley, who moved into the job full-time when Jay Fiedler suffered a herniated disc in his neck and was placed on injured reserve, is improving. He was 22-for-35 for 198 yards and the winning touchdown in the victory over New England -- his most complete game of the season, Bates said.
"There have been some throws over the last five weeks that are as good as you'll see in the NFL," Bates said. "He can make all the throws."
Beating the Patriots sent a jolt of energy throughout the Dolphins' locker room, yet players know a loss Sunday will quickly whisk away that small sense of pride they've carried the past few days.
"There's a lot of things that aren't going to be the same after this season. Let's face it," Taylor said. "The only certain thing we have is that we're going to be together for two more weeks. We want to enjoy that."