The AFC East landscape certainly took on a new look on Tuesday with not one but two major trades, sending star wide receivers to the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets.

The quick reaction from the Miami Dolphins’ point of view is that their hopes of winning the AFC East – assuming they resolve their issues at all – took a bit of a hit when Davante Adams joined the Jets and Amari Cooper left was going to Buffalo.

Even from a wildcard perspective, the trades should make things more difficult for the Dolphins. They have two games left against the Jets, who should be harder to beat with the addition of Adams, and one against the Bills, who have been a problem for the Dolphins even without Cooper.

On the other hand, the Dolphins’ games against the Las Vegas Raiders on November 17 and the Cleveland Browns on December 29 should be even more in their favor than before, as those two teams already had offensive challenges with Adams and Cooper, respectively.

Another effect of the Cooper trade is the increasing possibility that the Week 17 game at Huntington Bank Field will be expanded from its current Sunday night slot — because the Browns now look like a dumpster fire, and they don’t look like one. It will get better soon.

The two wide receiver trades will make the Dolphins’ remaining schedule more difficult. The games against Las Vegas and Cleveland already looked like games the Dolphins should win.

With the addition of Adams to an offense that also includes Garrett Wilson and Allen Lazard, the Jets now have one of the best wide receiver trios in the NFL. If Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle can get going and Odell Beckham Jr. can make the impact he hoped to make, the conversation could also turn to the Dolphins.

Other top trios include Seattle with DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett and Jackson Smith-Njigba; San Francisco with Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and Jauan Jennings; Houston with Nico Collins, Stefon Diggs and Tank Dell; and Tennessee with DeAndre Hopkins, Calvin Ridley and Tyler Boyd.

But as previously mentioned, Hill and Waddle have been pretty quiet since the Dolphins opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and they’ll need to resume their highly productive ways if Miami wants to get things back on track and build momentum toward victory . playoffs.

The Cooper and Adams trades took place exactly three weeks before the NFL trade deadline, and it would certainly make sense to anticipate more moves around the league.

The Dolphins could conceivably be involved in one of these, but if they were, it would certainly be for something other than a wide receiver like Davante Adams or Amari Cooper.