Category: Miami Dolphins

MIAMI GARDENS — All day Sunday, the Miami Dolphins defense put in its work in the team’s 31-16 victory against the hapless New York Giants. The results were encouraging. They defense recorded a season-best in sacks (seven), a season-best in quarterback hits (14), didn’t allow an offensive touchdown, and held the Giants to 85 yards rushing, the second-best total of the season. The Dolphins defense, which was blamed for a lot of the problems of last year’s 9-8 season and therefore made some major changes in the offseason, turned in a solid game Sunday. “It felt like how it’s supposed to...

MIAMI GARDENS — For a true sense of what’s happening to De’Von Achane, don’t just look at his touchdown total or stopwatch time. Check the scoreboard as he sprints downfield. That’s what Achane does. In real time, his runs like Sunday’s 76-yard touchdown are over in scant seconds, a fireball of fury through the New York Giants defense in a manner that defines the speed all across this Dolphins offense. But pay attention to Achane’s eyes as he runs. He’s glancing up to the stadium’s video to watch the play on the scoreboard. “I’m not watching me,” he said after the 31-16 win against the...

MIAMI GARDENS — When the Dolphins needed a spark in their offense last week at Buffalo, the usual charges, wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle, weren’t there. Circumstances, with Buffalo’s top-rated defense acting as a catalyst, conspired to limit Hill to three receptions for 58 yards and Waddle to four receptions for 46 yards. It’s up to coach Mike McDaniel and offensive coordinator Frank Smith to make sure nothing along those lines happens again, and that includes Sunday’s 1 p.m. game against the lowly New York Giants (1-3) at Hard Rock Stadium. “I feel like nobody in this league...

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Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel may not have kicked the field goal for the NFL’s all-time single-game scoring record, but the historic 70-20 win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday saw at least 13 team or individual franchise records broken. Here are the team single-game records broken: — Most points: 70; — Most touchdowns: 10; — Most total yards: 726; — Most rushing yards: 350; — Most extra-point kicks made: 10; — Most points scored in the second half of a game: 35 (record tied). Here are the individual records: — Most touchdowns: Raheem Mostert, De’Von Achane 4; — Most points scored:...

MIAMI GARDENS — Give some love to the Miami Dolphins’ defense, which played more than a supporting role in Sunday’s 70-20 dominant victory over the Denver Broncos. The defense, hard as it is to believe, was a star. “We just played together,” linebacker Jerome Baker said. “It’s as simple as that.” You’d think it’d be hard to shine when the offense scores 10 touchdowns and a franchise-record amount of points. The Dolphins’ defense, one of the season’s big reclamation projects along with the offensive line and the run game, got some shine, however. Consider what the Dolphins’ defense did: *It...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It didn’t take every one of 466 yards passing, like the opener. But it was quarterback Tua Tagovailoa taking what the defense gave him. It was the run game providing balance. And it was the Dolphins defense making a rebound from a Week 1 performance the unit wasn’t proud of and the final stop. The Miami Dolphins went into Gillette Stadium to take down the New England Patriots, 24-17, The Dolphins (2-0) have now won five of their last six in the division rivalry with the Patriots. They start a season with two road wins for the first time since 2013. Quarterback Tua...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — So, perhaps we had it backward. Perhaps we should have expected the Miami Dolphins’ offensive line to play well in Sunday’s 36-34 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers, and should have expected the defensive front seven to be, well, sloppy. But that makes no sense. The Dolphins’ offensive line, which was shaky last season, was playing without Pro Bowl left tackle Terron Armstead, their best player. The offensive line was a major concern entering this season. And the Dolphins’ defensive front seven, which was good last season, and was projected to be even better this...

The Miami Dolphins, led by quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and wide receiver Tyreek Hill, were strong offensively against the Los Angeles Chargers during Sunday’s season-opening victory. Defensively, it wasn’t a great performance but it was a clutch one. (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=40bacbdb-084a-4980-bafa-92da3b5cd8f1&cid=38d5daa3-18ac-4ee1-a905-373c67622f25'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "40bacbdb-084a-4980-bafa-92da3b5cd8f1" , mediaId: "df7ff963-737a-4121-8ae8-ea549d3ef24a" }).render("0ef74f29baa647c9b7ee480f4f1c63b2"); });

At the very end, all Tua Tagovailoa had to do was kneel down, and after everything that happened in this opener — after everything that happened the previous nine months — it must have felt as he took that knee like all his prayers were answered. For the first time since going down with another concussion last season, he had a scoreboard to show for all his work. For the first time since returning to work last spring, the story wasn’t about ju-jitsu or why he considered retiring. For this first Sunday, his smile gleaming at the end and his star never brighter, the Dolphins quarterback...