Hasselbeck hurts right shoulder, Clowney damages left foot on Sunday

Douglas was filling in for injured Pro Bowl center Mike Pouncey.

“He feels like it’s on his shoulders, but it’s not”, Miami interim coach Dan Campbell said.

However, Whitehurst suffered a hamstring injury in the fourth quarter that had him limping noticeably. “I mean, it (was) my fault”.

“I didn’t say anything on ruling him out”, Pagano said before being asked if Luck would play if the Colts were eliminated before kickoff. He had a chance to win the game for the Dolphins on four straight plays in the final minute of the game. A questionable offensive pass interference penalty on the Dolphins’ Jarvis Landry negated a Tannehill touchdown pass to Jordan Cameron, and they settled for a field goal. The South Florida native was playing in Miami for the first time.

In short, very few things went right for the Dolphins in this game.

The loss dropped the Dolphins to 5-10 and gave them a double-digit loss total for the first time since 2011 when they started 0-7 and finished 6-10.

There was no report of an issue with Donte Moncrief, but the receiver missed all of practice for the second week in a row and still played but was relatively invisible with just two receptions for 15 yards, so keep an eye on that.

Many think for a small market, and a team that has only won 11 games since 2013, would find it hard to attract high caliber free agents.

“We did our job today”, Whitehurst said.

“I was running a route, and the guy ran into me”, Landry said.

-PASSING OFFENSE: F. The numbers weren’t that bad. This forced Tannehill to under throw a fade route to DeVante Parker in the corner of the end zone, which resulted in an interception. But Tannehill was sacked six times, including on the final offensive snap when C Jamil Douglas snapped the ball on one instead of on two. Miller ended up rushing for 31 yards on 15 carries and only had 27 yards combined in the last two weeks. Returning for his final senior season (redshirt junior), Gore rushed for 945 yards and 8 touchdowns.

Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has been recovering from a lacerated kidney and a partially torn abdominal muscle he sustained on November 10, and Matt Hasselbeck is nursing a shoulder injury. And it didn’t matter.

There was a pass rush, and it made big plays. This was a failure.

The Miami ground attack is ranked 22nd in the league, compared to the 25th-ranked rush defense of Indianapolis. It wasn’t a good showing.

The Dolphins were down by nine with just over five minutes remaining when Campbell elected to kick a field goal on fourth-and-goal from the Indianapolis 2. The Dolphins averaged a mere 3.3 yards per carry as a team. No team plans in Training Camp to use their backup(s) for more than half of a season, but that has been the case for the 2015 Colts.