Category: Miami Dolphins

MIAMI GARDENS — Miami Dolphins second-year outside linebacker Chop Robinson left Thursday night’s game against the Baltimore Ravens with a concussion. Robinson was initially evaluated in the team’s sideline injury tent before walking out with a towel draped over his head as he went to the locker room to undergo further evaluation. He was ruled out later in the first half. Robinson will now have to clear a five-step concussion protocol in order to return to play. He’ll have extra time, with Miami’s next game on Nov. 9 against the Buffalo Bills. Robinson was a first-round pick of the team in...

Here’s a look at how the Miami Dolphins (2-6) and Baltimore Ravens (2-5) match up in six key areas ahead of Thursday night’s Week 9 game at Hard Rock Stadium (8:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video, CBS-4): When the Dolphins run: Miami showed its greatest commitment to the run all season in Sunday’s 34-10 win at the Atlanta Falcons with 37 rushing attempts, and it produced a season-high 141 rushing yards. All three running backs were incorporated from the start. De’Von Achane rushed for 67 yards on 18 carries. Rookie Ollie Gordon II had 46 yards on 10 attempts and was big in extending drives in...

ATLANTA — If you knew a few days ago that one team, either the Miami Dolphins or Atlanta Falcons, would rush for 141 yards and that same team would hold its opponent to 45 yards rushing you’d have bet every dollar you had that it’d have been the Falcons producing the good statistics. But it wasn’t the Falcons that did the damage Sunday, it was the Dolphins. Stopping the run was absolutely huge. Stopping the run led to the Dolphins playing their best game of the season in a 34-10 blowout win over the Falcons. “Monumental,” is how coach Mike McDaniel described that aspect of the game. ...

MIAMI GARDENS — I don’t know how, or if, Miami Dolphins coaches and players can keep this team together any longer. You get the sense things are falling apart, but still somehow being loosely held together even in the wake of Sunday’s potentially back-breaking 29-27 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. But at some point soon these players are going to realize that they’re not a good team, which is what their 1-5 record screams. At some point soon these players are going to realize, as I have, that their assessment of their talents a mere two months ago (I had them winning nine games) was off...

MIAMI GARDENS — When Miami Dolphins cornerback Jack Jones was called for the pass interference that sealed the team’s fate late in last Sunday’s loss to the Carolina Panthers, Fox broadcast cameras captured him arguing vehemently with officials. Upon reflection and watching the play, in coverage against Panthers wide receiver Hunter Renfrow, Jones acknowledges it had the appearance of pass interference, but he didn’t view himself as ultimately culpable. “With all honesty, that last call, when I watched it on film, it looks like a PI because he stops, he flares,” Jones said. “On that play, I...

It’s now safe to say Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel shouldn’t be back next year. The rest of this season is simply an exercise in how long owner Steve Ross allows McDaniel to twist in the breeze. This isn’t a knee-jerk reaction. This is cumulative. We’ve watched the Dolphins for the past three-plus seasons under McDaniel, capped by Sunday’s humiliating 27-24 loss at Carolina.  There’s no room left to question what McDaniel can accomplish the rest of this season. He can’t accomplish anything meaningful. This entire era is a lost cause, a missed opportunity. The player empowerment. The...

MIAMI GARDENS — The Miami Dolphins, who badly needed a victory, hosted the New York Jets on Monday and got that much-needed win, 27-21. But they might have lost star wide receiver Tyreek Hill for an extended period with a left knee injury. That was the bad news. The good news is the Dolphins (1-3) got their first win of the season and also extended their home winning streak over the Jets to 10 games. Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was efficient, the defense answered the call to play more violently (strictly in the football sense), and special teams continued making a big contribution to the...

MIAMI GARDENS — This Miami Dolphins season needed a whiff of good news, and got some with their first win of the season Monday night against the error-prone New York Jets. The Dolphins won, 27-21, to move to 1-3 on the season. The Jets fell to 0-4. But it was an expensive with with a key injury for the Dolphins. Here are 10 thoughts on the night: 1. The costliest 10-yard catch possible to the Dolphins season came early in the third quarter when Tyreek Hill was tackled by Jets safety Malachi Moore and tumbled out of bounds at the 36-yard line on the Jets sideline. Everyone immediately knew...

Quick thoughts from South Florida Sun Sentinel staffers as the Miami Dolphins get their first victory of the season, but lose one of their stars to injury against the New York Jets at Hard Rock Stadium on “Monday Night Football”: Chris Perkins, Dolphins Columnist The Dolphins forced turnovers, played reasonably good defense and reduced mindless errors. Those are all positive signs and sustainable activities. Monday’s victory provided reason for optimism despite the knee injury to wide receiver Tyreek Hill, which put a dark cloud over the victory. Still, it was good to see the Dolphins, and...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The belief that Thursday night’s game could be coach Mike McDaniel’s last leading the Miami Dolphins may be more outside noise than the inclination inside the organization. An NFL Network report ahead of “Thursday Night Football” against the Buffalo Bills indicated owner Steve Ross is not imminently considering change atop the football operation. “Stephen Ross, the Dolphins owner, does not want to fire Mike McDaniel. He doesn’t,” NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said on the Amazon Prime Video pregame show. “He wants this to work, likes him. He believes in him. He has invested...