Indianapolis Colts’ Matt Hasselbeck practices, considered probable for Sunday

The Miami Dolphins and the Indianapolis Colts have both seen better days. The Colts enjoyed short-lived success with him in the pocket, building a three-game winning streak after he threw for 315 yards and two TDs in a 25-12 win over Tampa Bay in Week 12. It would not be surprising for the Dolphins to draft some new players, pick some up in free agency and have the only returning starter be center Mike Pouncey.

“I think we have enough talent”, Campbell said. “I told them to finish the race”. “Bad play by me”. They should look for a more defensive minded head coach that can recruit a strong offensive coordinator. “It’s never one man’s fault”. That’s true whether the Colts have a shot at a playoff berth or not. The Dolphins (5-10) were eliminated two weeks ago.

Because the Houston Texans (8-7) also won, the Colts (7-8) had to await the results of later games to determine if they still had a mathematical chance at a playoff berth in the season’s final week. “So we just need guys to stick together, toughen up mentally and physically and fight”.

Gore, behind two rushing touchdowns over the course of the first half, pulled the Colts to a 15-6 advantage by halftime.

The third quarter of this one was a little less eventful, with the only scoring coming off a Dolphins field goal with just under four minutes to play to cut the score to 15-9. The only way for the Colts to come out on top in this is for the following to happen: Broncos beat Bengals on MNF, Broncos beat the San Diego Chargers next week and the Miami Dolphins beat the New England Patriots, while the Bengals also lose to the Ravens, Jets lose to the Bills and the Saints lose to the Falcons. “The defence really delivered”. That appears to be the case after the Colts placed Charlie Whitehurst on injured reserve Monday afternoon. He was needed for only one more snap – out of the victory formation on the final play. They have turned that team around and both sides of the ball are doing well. In his average career win, Tannehill throws the ball 30 times.

To make it, and perhaps save Pagano’s job, Indianapolis still needs a lot of help from around the league and another win from its depleted quarterback corps. “That’s something we have to fix”. The rest of the Miami Dolphins found out about Douglas’s snap-fu roughly three seconds too late, at which point Tannehill was already being mauled by Indianapolis Colts defenders like a scene from The Walking Dead.

Meanwhile, the reactions range from stoic to livid to just plain sad, but the general theme is exactly what Ryan Tannehill expressed Sunday at the end of a day that featured him getting sacked six times and throwing an end-zone interception. A questionable offensive pass interference penalty on Landry negated a Tannehill touchdown pass to Jordan Cameron, and they settled for a field goal.

Another bright spot is that wide receiver Jarvis Landry became the first Dolphins player to have 100 catches and 1,000 yards in the same season. He scored on a bulldozing 37-yard run in the first quarter, had a 27-yard burst in the second quarter that preceded his second touchdown, from 11 yards out, and by intermission had 72 yards on six carries.