Their yardage advantage was 275-0 in the first 16 minutes, and the score was 35-0 before the Texans registered a first down.
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The Miami Dolphins (3-3) are coming from a 44-26 win over the Houston Texans last week in which they outscored their opponents 41-0 at halftime.
“With the changes that happened, we honestly feel like it was a new season”, Sheppard said. Campbell has managed to right that wrong, and has discovered a set of relatively fresh legs for the Dolphins running game as a result.
“It’s not me, it’s this team”, Campbell said.
Dan Campbell needed only two weeks to get the Miami Dolphins out of last place.
O’Brien showed no ability to maintain his decision as he flip-flopped between the two with no rhyme or reason. To compound their misery, running back Arian Foster hobbled off the field late in the game with an Achilles tendon injury that might end his season. He’s in the defensive huddle, the offensive huddle, and today he made our special teams huddle.
Routing Tennessee and Houston might have gotten the NFL’s attention, and the Patriots’, but winning at New England Thursday night will be the ultimate statement. The defensive tackle finished the game with six tackles, two sacks (his first two of the season), three tackles for loss, two passes defensed and three quarterback hits. Tannehill has two or more touchdown passes in five straight games.
Andrew Luck threw TD passes of 87 and 46 yards to T.Y. Hilton, and an 8-yard TD pass to Donte Moncrief with 3:46 left to make it 27-21. Miller’s success also allows for the ability to run a successful play action. Amid the Dolphins’ utter domination of the Texans in the first half, which ended with the Fins up 41-0, Miller had 14 carries for 175 yards and a touchdown and three catches for 61 yards and a score.
On the season, the Miami Dolphins average 248.5 yards in passing and 117.5 yards in rushing.
The Dolphins began pulling their regulars at halftime. The Texans defense gave up four touchdowns in the first half that were 50-yard plays or longer.
Texan’s coach Bill O’Brien spoke about the back-up QB saying, “Anything that has to do with Ryan Mallett, I can tell you right now, the way that will be answered by me is everything that we do as far as discipline or anything, personal problems, whatever it might be, is handled internally, in-house”.
The big, strong-armed quarterback was given every opportunity to be the man in Houston, but he never took full advantage. Cutting a semi-starting quarterback over a missed flight is the kind of desperate “I’m taking back control of this locker room” overreaction that coaches presiding over imploding teams tend to reach for, so you can’t blame Smith for stepping in and stopping O’Brien.
“I just got caught in traffic”, Mallett said. “I need to be better”.
The only blemish on an otherwise flawless first half was a missed extra point attempt. His passer rating was a sky-high 158.3.
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Even last season, when Miami was 11th in the National Football League with 24.3 points per game, they should’ve been in the top 10.
