Cleveland wide receiver Terrelle Pryor made Hard Rock Stadium his personal playground on Sunday.
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“It’s the best coaching staff I’ve ever played for”, said Terrelle Pryor, who had 200 total yards and a touchdown playing receiver, running back and quarterback. “Whatever we think it takes to help us win a game”, Jackson said. Pryor was everywhere, catching eight passes for 144 yards, running for 21 and a touchdown and throwing for 35.
The Dolphins had to like their chances against rookie quarterback Cody Kessler, who was making his first career start. “It meant a lot to me this week, the support I got from my hometown of Bakersfield and not a whole lot of people know about Bakersfield or have been there or really understand but it’s a great town”, said Kessler, who became the team’s third quarterback in as many weeks because of shoulder injuries to Robert Griffin III and Josh McCown.
Can the Miami Dolphins take out their frustrations of a slow start to 2016 on the banged-up Cleveland Browns when the two meet today at 1PM ET?
After struggling with two interceptions in the first half, Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill finished 25 of 39 for 319 yards and three touchdowns.
Wideout Josh Gordon is still serving his four-game suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy, and as it stands now, is eligible to return Week Five. Kenyan Drake led the pack with 37 yards on his nine carries.
The 1-2 Dolphins have a short turnaround as they head to Cincinnati to face the Bengals on Thursday night. The team fell behind early before turning it on in the second quarter, taking a 13-10 edge into halftime.
Browns first-year coach Hue Jackson won the toss to start overtime and chose to kick off, a decision his counterpart understood. Instead it was Browns corner Briean Boddy-Calhoun, who most fans had no idea was even on the team before the game. The first two weeks of the season have been a tale of two different games. Right now, we are concerned about the Cleveland Browns. In all, Miami had 115 yards on the ground.
Cody Kessler had an alright Cleveland Browns debut.
Sproles’ ability to catch passes out of the backfield will serve him well in Week 3, as he goes up against a stout Pittsburgh run defense.
Why Jackson would put the game in the hands of a rookie quarterback rather than try and pound the ball on a tiring Miami defense is a mystery. For instance, defensive end Carl Nassib has a hand injury and center Cameron Erving has a bruised lung that will keep them out of Sunday’s game, opening a spots for another defensive lineman and offensive lineman on Sunday. After the offense scored one touchdown in week 1, and no touchdowns in the first half of week 2, the groans were getting louder.
“We’re too up and down on offense”, Gase said. He wants to get every call from the officials, and they’re not going to do that all the time. Pasztor had two of his penalties were drive killers as they came on the Browns 14 play drive to open the third quarter that resulted in a missed field goal.
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Dropping last Sunday’s game at New England, the Dolphins did give us some areas to be happy about. It all set up for the Browns to win the game, but (likely former Browns kicker) Parkey had other ideas, missing his third field goal of the game as time expired.
