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Raheem Mostert scored two extra touchdowns to set Miami’s one-season document with 20, Tua Tagovailoa threw for 224 yards and a score and the Dolphins shut out the New York Jets 30- on Sunday without the need of star receiver Tyreek Hill.
Mostert walked into the conclusion zone untouched on a 2-yard run that set AFC East-top Miami (10-4) ahead 7- and gave the ninth-year running back his 17th dashing landing of the period — 1 additional than Ricky Williams, who established the report in 2002. The score was also Mostert’s 19th over-all, which broke the team record of 18 set by Mark Clayton in 1984.
Tagovailoa was 21 of 24 with an 87.5% completion share and a 60-garden touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle. He was changed by Mike White with 8:32 remaining and the Dolphins up by 30.
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A 7 days soon after Zach Wilson threw for in excess of 300 yards versus Houston, the Jets’ third-12 months quarterback’s working day was minimize limited when he still left late in the second quarter with a concussion. New York (5-9) was shut out for the very first time because getting rid of 26- at Denver in Week 3 of the 2021 period.
The decline seriously lessens the Jets’ playoff possibilities — and the opportunity of Aaron Rodgers returning from a torn Achilles tendon for a postseason run. Rodgers has explained one particular of the disorders of his comeback would be New York remaining in rivalry.
Hill, who entered Week 15 as the NFL’s main receiver, missed the initially video game of his Dolphins tenure following injuring his remaining ankle towards the Tennessee Titans final Monday night time. He has 1,542 yards getting and was on tempo for the initial 2,000-yard receiving year in league historical past.
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Hill’s absence made home for a standout match from fast 3rd-12 months receiver Waddle, who experienced a year-substantial 142 yards on 8 catches.
Waddle bought at the rear of Jets cornerback D.J. Reed for a 60-garden landing capture from Tagovailoa in the second quarter that put the Dolphins ahead 17-. Mostert then gave the Dolphins a 24-position halftime guide with his second touchdown of the working day, a 1-yard score in which he was once more untouched.
Wilson had spent much of the afternoon jogging from a domineering Miami defensive entrance that sacked him 4 periods, just one of which resulted in a fumble that gave the Dolphins the ball at the Jets 1 and led to Mostert’s first rating.
Wilson was 4 of 11 with 26 yards ahead of being changed by Trevor Siemian, who was 14 of 26 with 110 yards and two interceptions to basic safety Brandon Jones.
Inspite of missing many defensive starters, the Dolphins confined the Jets to just 4 yards in the initially fifty percent, the fewest yards permitted in the initially 50 % of a game since Dec. 13, 2015, when Denver confined the Raiders to minus-12 yards in the 1st fifty percent.
With the get, the Dolphins accomplished the period sweep of their division rivals a lot less than a month just after blowing out the Jets in Week 12, and bounced again from blowing a 14-level fourth-quarter guide Monday versus the Titans.
Match-Transforming CHUBB
Miami’s substantial-priced edge rusher Bradley Chubb experienced his finest recreation considering that getting traded to the Dolphins previous November with 7 merged tackles and two strip-sacks (a few sacks complete).
Chubb also experienced three quarterback hits, two tackles for decline and a fumble recovery for Miami’s No. 9-rated protection. He qualified prospects the NFL with six forced fumbles.
Accidents
Jets: DL Quinton Jefferson left with a hip harm and failed to return. … S Tony Adams left to be evaluated for a head damage, but was later cleared to return. … DL John Franklin Meyers injured his hip in the initially 50 percent and did not return.
Dolphins: Waddle still left briefly following hurting his upper body on a capture on the 1st sequence, but returned shortly afterwards. … RT Austin Jackson hurt his oblique in the 2nd quarter (indirect) in the 2nd quarter and didn’t return. … LB Emmanuel Ogbah left with a hamstring personal injury.
UP Upcoming:
Jets: Host Washington upcoming Sunday.
Dolphins: Host Dallas future Sunday.
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