MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins have faced 3 teams this year that now have profitable data. They’re -3 in those games.
Versus all people else, they are 6-.
The craze could not be clearer and it was on exhibit once again Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany, where the Dolphins got at the rear of 21- from Kansas Town and wound up losing 21-14 to the defending Super Bowl champions. They looked superior in the second 50 % but the moment again not very good adequate.
“All we can proceed to do is function and not shed sight of where by we want to go as a workforce,” Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa claimed. “We’ve obtained to keep on to stick with each other and not deviate from that, no matter of what everyone outdoors is expressing, and we’ve just got to set our head down and retain going.”
Miami has lost game titles to Philadelphia (8-1), Kansas City (7-2) and Buffalo (5-4). Those three video games are the only kinds this time in which the Dolphins haven’t held a guide they trailed the Payments by 28, the Chiefs by 21 and the Eagles by 14.
Here’s the rundown of the groups the Dolphins have overwhelmed: the Los Angeles Chargers (3-4 coming into Monday), Denver (3-5), the New England Patriots (an AFC-worst 2-7) two times, the New York Giants (2-7) and Carolina (1-7). Only the Panthers (who were being up 14- early) held a direct of a lot more than 7 factors at any time towards Miami in people games.
Normal point differential in the 6 Miami wins: 18.2 points.
Common level differential in the a few Miami losses: 16.3 points.
“I know that NFL games, each and every and every just one of them is difficult,” Dolphins mentor Mike McDaniel claimed. “I think men and women undervalue bad data. It is tricky to get in this league. To get in any suitable against any opponent is one thing not to take for granted. As lengthy as you continue on to get better, in the long run that narrative will subside. But that is on us collectively from coaches and gamers alike to — if you want the narrative to modify, alter the narrative.”
What’s Performing
The protection. Probably this is not the very same nuts-variety-posting Kansas Metropolis offense from the latest years, but Miami nevertheless held the Chiefs to 267 yards, 174 of them by the air. Those were being Kansas City’s cheapest numbers in a regular-season sport in virtually two many years.
WHAT Desires Perform
Likely on the street. The variance in the figures is massive. The Dolphins are 4- at household, outscoring groups 174-74 and have averaged 516 web yards. On the highway, the Dolphins are 2-3, have been outscored 151-111 and have averaged 371 web yards.
Stock UP
Yet again, the defense, particularly in the next 50 percent. Excluding the remaining possession of the video game that experienced two kneeldowns by the Chiefs, Kansas Town had the ball four moments just after halftime – ensuing in zero details, a dropped fumble, three punts, 4 1st downs and 67 yards. Miami’s defense gave the Dolphins a likelihood. But groups should rating to defeat Kansas Town the Chiefs are winners of 31 straight when keeping an opponent less than 20 points.
Stock DOWN
Tagovailoa. Seem, he’s however acquiring a big time and totally ought to be in the MVP discussion. But he had time lows in completion share (61.8) and yards (193) against the Chiefs, and there were two highly-priced blunders on the final push when Miami experienced a likelihood to tie — a miscommunication with Cedric Wilson Jr. on the next-to-previous enjoy for the Dolphins, and then a mishandled snap on the closing participate in that sealed the end result.
Injuries
OL Robert Jones still left Sunday’s sport with a knee injury.
Essential Selection
33-1 — That was Miami’s record since the start of the 2010 period when it outscored an opponent by 10 or more details in the 2nd fifty percent. It’s 33-2 above that span now, mainly because the Dolphins outscored the Chiefs 14- following halftime on Sunday. (The other loss was Sept. 18, 2016, at New England, a sport in which the Dolphins trailed Jimmy Garoppolo & Co. — Tom Brady was suspended for “Deflategate” at that time — 24-3 at the fifty percent, just before outscoring the Patriots 21-7 in the closing two quarters but however dropping 31-24.)
Upcoming Actions
It’s a bye 7 days for the Dolphins, who will practice Tuesday, then just take a number of days off prior to returning subsequent 7 days and acquiring all set for a Nov. 19 dwelling game towards the Las Vegas Raiders.
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