It's that time of year. Depth charts are coalescing. Decisions are being made. Starters will actually play some extended minutes this week. The season is so close, you can smell the point spreads.

Tony Sparano, who is presiding over an entertaining camp in Miami, said it best when describing his decision to give Chad Pennington and Chad Henne all the snaps at practice recently.

"We're kind of out of the hurtin'-people's-feelings business right now. We're getting into the real deal."

And the real deal doesn't include a whole lot of Josh McCown, John Beck, and Ernest Wilford.