"Last week was the end of the world for Joe Philbin and the Dolphins. Everything crashed, everything was wrong, nothing could console. And while a football man's personal pain following the passing of his son is much worse than a football team's ache in missing on a coach hiring, the hell each was catching on different fronts for different reasons could only be defined the same.

Awful.

But now comes a new day.

Today, the Dolphins will introduce Philbin to his new digs, they'll show him off as their new coach, they'll give him a new start. Joe Philbin will begin a new life.

None of this, mind you, will erase the tragedy of last week. Philbin lost his 21-year-old son Michael, who went missing and was discovered drowned in a Wisconsin river hours later. Nothing will ever fill that void in Philbin's heart or erase the grief of burying a son.

But despite Philbin's terrible loss, life does go on and he is willing to embrace it and live it.

Amidst Michael's death, the family's tears and the funeral, Philbin still coached for the Packers last weekend. No, that didn't go too well because the New York Giants upset Philbin's Green Bay Packers.

But after the game Philbin and his agents talked about what the coach wanted to do next.

The men discussed whether Philbin preferred to do the safe and comfortable thing, staying in the cocoon the Packers are known to form around their players and coaches. That would have been easy. The Packers, watching the conference championships this weekend, will surely return to the postseason next year and Philbin, their offensive coordinator, would surely get other opportunities to become a head coach in the future."