MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Regardless of enjoying Thursday evening’s sport towards the Baltimore Ravens from the confines of their dwelling stadium, the Miami Dolphins encountered some difficulties due to the visiting crew’s followers.
Ravens followers flooded to Laborious Rock Stadium to witness a 28-6 victory over the Dolphins and impacted the sport early on. Dolphins proper sort out Larry Borom was flagged for a false begin on fourth-and-1 on the crew’s third drive of the sport after showing to react to Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy’s pre-snap motion.
After the sport, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa stated the gang noise performed a job within the early miscue.
“With the Ravens followers, it possibly received somewhat muffled with my cadence and the gang noise,” he stated. “We talked about it on the sideline after and received that corrected.”
Kicker Riley Patterson missed the following 35-yard discipline aim after the penalty.
Broadcast cameras caught an irate Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel’s response to the flag. After the sport, he clarified the place his outburst was aimed.
“That was at self-inflicted wounds that we have been placing such an emphasis on all issues associated to our operation,” he stated. “In important fourth-and-1 the place we’re fairly fired up in regards to the defensive look, it was what we have been calling the play for and that is flat out a controllable that our crew is aware of that retains you from profitable.
“So [I was] irate at nothing however ourself.”
Followers of each groups headed towards the exit en masse late within the third quarter when Baltimore took a 22-point lead; some Dolphins followers who stayed wore paper baggage and even popcorn buckets over their heads.
Miami turned the ball over 3 times Thursday, went 2-for-12 on third downs and failed to attain on any of its three redzone journeys, together with a third-quarter fumble and an incomplete move on fourth down from the Ravens’ 13-yard line. McDaniel stated he understood and even shared followers’ frustrations.
“Personally, you need to dictate the phrases. You need to repair stuff, and, yeah, it sucks,” he stated. “That sucks. All of that does, however I feel it is a fairly constant method of followers take pleasure in profitable. Our expectation is that we have now to do the work and do the precise issues for followers to benefit from the expertise. And sadly, we did not try this tonight, so we have to get again to work to present them one thing to cheer about.”
4 days after a 34-10 street win over the Atlanta Falcons, the Dolphins appeared able to preserve their momentum going towards Baltimore. Within the first half, Miami outgained the Ravens 226-109 and possessed the ball for 18:29 to the Ravens’ 11:01, however nonetheless trailed 14-6 at halftime.
McDaniel stated it is “typically a foul omen” to path in a sport try to be profitable. Tagovailoa stated Miami’s offense “could not discover our movement.”
The sport received out of hand within the third quarter, when Baltimore outgained the Dolphins 166-39 and opened a three-score lead.
With the Dolphins’ document dropping to 2-7, their worst begin since McDaniel took over in 2022, linebacker Jordyn Brooks supplied a blunt evaluation of how the crew performed Thursday.
“We have got to capitalize after we get right down to the redzone,” Brooks stated. “We simply had too many turnovers at the moment, and I really feel like that actually harm us. … I felt like we performed nicely defensively within the first half, however turnovers — that kills you. Not capitalizing, not scoring after we may, giving them the ball again, giving them an additional set of downs. Gamers like [the Ravens’ offense], they’ll discover a solution to get into the endzone.
“We have got to capitalize after we’ve received the prospect to and play complementary soccer. … Till we learn to not beat ourselves, we cannot win a soccer sport.”
Miami has a 10-day mini-bye earlier than internet hosting the Buffalo Payments in Week 10.