MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Regardless of enjoying Thursday night time’s sport in opposition to the Baltimore Ravens from the confines of their residence stadium, the Miami Dolphins encountered some difficulties due to the visiting group’s followers.
Ravens’ followers packed 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 group’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 group noise performed a task within the early miscue.
“With the Ravens followers, it perhaps obtained somewhat muffled with my cadence and the group noise,” he stated. “We talked about it on the sideline after and obtained that corrected.”
Kicker Riley Patterson missed the following 35-yard area 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 concerning the defensive look, it was what we had been calling the play for and that is flat out a controllable that our group 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 pink zone 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 wish to dictate the phrases. You wish to repair stuff, and, yeah, it sucks,” he stated. “That sucks. All of that does, however I feel it is a fairly constant formulation of followers get pleasure from profitable. Our expectation is that we’ve got to do the work and do the best issues for followers to benefit from the expertise. And sadly, we did not do this tonight, so we have to get again to work to offer them one thing to cheer about.”
4 days after a 34-10 street win over the Atlanta Falcons, the Dolphins appeared able to maintain their momentum going in opposition to 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 “usually a foul omen” to path in a sport you ought to be profitable. Tagovailoa stated Miami’s offense “could not discover our movement.”
The sport obtained out of hand within the third quarter, when Baltimore (3-5) outgained the Dolphins 166-39 and opened a three-score lead.
With the Dolphins’ report dropping to 2-7, their worst begin since McDaniel took over in 2022, linebacker Jordyn Brooks provided a blunt evaluation of how the group performed Thursday.
“We have to capitalize after we get right down to the pink zone,” Brooks stated. “We simply had too many turnovers as we speak, and I really feel like that basically harm us. … I felt like we performed nicely defensively within the first half, however turnovers — that kills you. Not capitalizing, not scoring after we might, giving them the ball again, giving them an additional set of downs. Gamers like [the Ravens’ offense], they are going to discover a solution to get into the tip zone.
“We have to capitalize after we’ve obtained the prospect to and play complementary soccer. … Till we learn to not beat ourselves, we can’t win a soccer sport.”
Miami has a 10-day break earlier than internet hosting the Buffalo Payments in Week 10.