Michael Floyd blows up defender on Julian Edelman 77-yard TD
The Dolphins will be one of the Wild Card teams in the AFC this year, and the Patriots were just able to crush them on their own home-field. The Dolphins have found some interesting ways to win this season and I’m sure that Sunday’s game will be no exception, and hopefully in the last home game of the season, the fans will make it a true home field advantage. With no interceptions and three touchdown, Brady sets the National Football League record for best touchdown-to-interception ratio.
LeGarrette Blount padded New England’s advantage with a one-yard touchdown run with 5:33 remaining in the game.
Sunday, the Chiefs beat the Chargers 37-27 in San Diego – Alex Smith had a quarterback rating of 112, four receivers had more than 40 yards, and the Chiefs were 8-of-12 on third down. After Edelman caught the Tom Brady thrown dime, he slanted inside.
Brady and Martellus Bennett connected on a two-yard pass to get New England on the board in the first quarter. That said, the Patriots have the even greater motivation of clinching the AFC’s No. 1 seed with a win themselves, which could lead to a large Dolphins deficit in the second half. The Patriots, on the other hand, continued to spend the majority of their time on offense in Miami’s zone.
With Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr breaking his leg in Week 16, Brady seems to be the most likely MVP candidate to come out of the AFC.
The Dolphins defeated Pittsburgh, 30-15, when the teams met on October 16, as running back Jay Ajayi rumbled for 204 rushing yards. The Dolphins beat the visiting Steelers 30-15 on October 16 to start a run of nine wins in 10 games before the regular-season finale loss. It was that play that sent the Patriots bench over-the-top.
They will have their work cut out for them vs. the Steelers, a team that is no stranger to the playoffs.
New England lost their previous three meetings in Miami Gardens.
Quarterback Matt Moore, in for injured starting QB Ryan Tannehill, logged 205 passing yards, two touchdowns, and an interception on Sunday. “Obviously there’s a lot to learn in our offense and things we ask him to do but he’s gotten better every day and certainly helped us today”. In his first major action since joining the team, Floyd made a massive contribution.
But as well as Miami (10-6) has played in the past two-plus months, it was nearly knocked out on this one in the first half.
“I’m in a good place”.
It might have been the easy play to utilize Garoppolo and keep Brady out of harm’s way, only a fortnight before the Patriots’ first postseason game in the divisional round at Gillette Stadium. Their next game will come against either the Miami Dolphins or the victor of the Houston vs Oakland/Kansas City game. Looking back on it, there were missed opportunities and obvious holes, and we were hard on just about everybody at times – that’s what we do here – but despite missing the playoffs once again, there were plenty of bright spots. And the first-year coach says his team can ill afford to play like it did against New England.