"We have officially reached the part of this Miami Dolphins season where players and coaches seem to be speaking in code.

It's too painful sometimes to come right out with it. Better to talk around the problem or the issue and leave it at that.

So it was with Brandon Marshall's inscrutable "positioning" refrain after Sunday's 20-17 loss to the New York Giants. And so, too, it seemed to be with Jason Taylor's "elephant in the room" speech in the losing locker room."