Miami Dolphins: Is It Time to Shut Down the Best Players Yet?

The Jets (6-5) came out with an exclamation point in a dominant victory over their AFC East rival in the Miami Dolphins (4-7).

Ryan Fitzpatrick was razor sharp while lifting the New York NY Jets to their best offensive showing of the season.

The Miami Dolphins lost their seventh straight AFC East game, and fifth of this season, this time dropping to the New York Jets 38-20.

Miami’s longest gain on the ground Sunday was 4 yards by Jarvis Landry, a wide receiver. Their 38-20 loss to the Jets was the fourth in the last five games, and ended any realistic playoff hopes.

This was the first Jets season sweep of the Dolphins since 2006.

“I just felt like it was time to move in another direction”, Campbell said. He also had a touchdown, on a huge 31 yard run.

A touchdown run by Chris Ivory and field goal by Randy Bullock were matched by touchdown catches by Miami’s Greg Jennings and DeVante Parker to account for the remainder of the scoring in what essentially served as garbage time.

Neither team scored again until there were eight seconds left in the half, when Fitzpatrick zinged a pass to rookie Devin Smith, who had dropped what would’ve been 46-yard touchdown against Houston a week earlier, for a 16-yard score. Williams’ interception was his team-high fifth of the season. Matthews was the intended target on a third-down pass by Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill and briefly had a hand on the ball that was sailing behind him before he was leveled by Jets S Calvin Pryor. Then the Green & White let it back out to 21 points when Fitzpatrick assembled the offense’s third 70-yards-plus march en route to his second TD strike to Marshall, a fade over Grimes. There’s nothing I can say that’s going to make that look better. To make matters worse, the team lost four players to injury: center Mike Pouncey (right foot), receiver Rishard Matthews (ribs/chest), defensive tackles Earl Mitchell (calf) and C.J. Mosley (calf). Matthews got up slowly and walked to the sideline gingerly.

The game was never really in question. Despite a knee injury that slowed him throughout the week of practice, Landry still recorded 13 receptions for 165 yards with a touchdown.

This game is important for both sides and is eerily similar to their last match-up 4 years ago when the Jets came in 8-6 and the Giants came in 7-7 with everything on the line.