After outscoring opponents by 46 points during a two-game span, Dan Campbell’s Fins appeared poised for a slugfest, but simply could not get anything going offensively. Ja’Wuan has been playing good football.
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Lewis topped 100 yards from scrimmage in each of the first two games this season. Prior to the game against the Patriots, Dolphins’ left tackle Branden Albert captured the general sentiment of the entire offensive line when he said, “Nobody wants to be sitting back there pass blocking all day”.
“‘It’s not always about stats and tackles”, Hightower said. You can’t have mistakes and if you do, you can’t have many of them. “In Dion’s case, he’s been a productive guy in a lot of different areas for us”.
Miller’s struggles placed more emphasis on Ryan Tannehill and the passing game who were unable to get anything going all night, save for one very impressive 80-yard drive to start the second half.
Wake had one sack on Brady and seven in the past three games after being shut out in the first four.
The Patriots defense deserves big time kudos again. He’s piling up volume, he’s avoiding mistakes, he’s putting points on the board, and it sometimes seems like his receivers drop more passes than he misses throws. That 52-yard field goal started out headed for the Red Wing Diner then curved like a Wiffle ball through the uprights.
It was another night, another no-doubt-about-it victory for quarterback Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
“It’s something I’m asked to do, and I’m going to go out there and do it the best way I can”, Lewis said. Do they have enough talented edge players to take advantage of one-vs-ones? Players, coaching staff did a great job tonight and it was a good win. The only positive for this defense is that they limited Brady and the Pats to 3-for-12 on third-down situations.
“Yes, we definitely did come together”, Gronkowski said. A big part of that was the fact that defensive end Cameron Wake got healthy.
Dion Lewis returned from injury and pulled in six catches for 93 yards and a touchdown. “We’ll see what happens with this”.
I know no one likes to talk about kickers, but how can I not give a little credit to the guy who just set a Patriots record of 26 consecutive field goals without a miss. Players like Terrell Suggs have done it in the past, but it looks to be a long road before Wake can return to the field.
Thursday night’s contest was a flawless illustration of how rough life can be for an National Football League head coach. And by the time that Broncos game rolls around on November 29, who knows what Peyton Manning’s shaky health status will be? It’s hard to say who blew the coverage because no one was within 10 yards of Lewis when he caught the ball.
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Beating the Bills is critical because the Dolphins are 0-3 in the division, which puts them at a disadvantage in playoff tiebreakers. He also writes for Examiner.com as the New England Patriots Examiner. Miami has committed such a high percentage of their salary cap to their front, that failure to dominate games shows up the inadequacies at other positions.
