MIAMI GARDENS, Fla – The Miami Dolphins defeated the Las Vegas Raiders 34-19 on Sunday.
The Dolphins executed a well-balanced offensive recreation plan, counting on their working recreation and brief passes to safe a win over the Raiders, who’ve now misplaced a league-leading six straight video games.
The technique paid off, because the Dolphins prevented any offensive turnovers and for the primary time all season, went a whole recreation with out punting the ball to the opposing staff. The solely drive Miami didn’t rating on was when the offense ended the primary half with the ball.
Tight finish Jonnu Smith was one of many stars of the sport after catching two of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s three landing passes whereas including 101 receiving yards, a career-high.
Smith informed reporters after the sport that he desires to maintain grinding together with his teammates irrespective of what the scoreboard says.
“Everybody had these same feelings over the last nine or so weeks,” said Smith. “We experienced it together, experience adversity, and that’s why it’s a special group.”
One of the standout players on Miami’s protection was Zack Sieler.
Sieler, who missed two weeks as a consequence of a fractured orbital he suffered in follow earlier than returning to the sphere final week, had a dominant efficiency with 4 tackles, a sack, and two quarterback hits. He’s a pressure on the sphere and a key to creating Miami’s protection click on.
Sieler said he and his former Dolphins teammate Christian Wilkins didn’t converse main as much as the sport since Wilkins had “blocked” all of his teammates regardless of being beforehand dominated out as he recovers from a foot harm.
Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel didn’t maintain again when talking about what Sieler and Calais Campbell’s dominant play means to the staff. Local 10 viewers can hearken to his feedback and the way he in contrast Sieler to a “binky” within the video on the high of this web page.
Campbell additionally informed reporters he is aware of easy methods to take pleasure in a win, however solely briefly. After Sunday’s victory, he reminded his teammates that there’s nonetheless loads of work forward.
“It feels good,” Campbell said. “But like I told the guys in the locker room, we’ve still got a big hole to climb out of. We can celebrate for 24 hours, but after that, it’s back to work.”
Dolphins sort out Terron Armstead additionally gave his ideas on the ten+ play, lengthy and methodical drives in Sunday’s win, and the way his staff might execute higher when given the chance.
Miami (4-6) will host the New England Patriots (3-8) in Week 12 whereas the Raiders (2-8) will host the Denver Broncos in a divisional conflict.
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