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Defense is only giving up 18.5 per game

I really don't like this defense and the scheme, but the offense should be light years better on paper. If the offense was good as it should be, the defense would look a lot better. If you hold teams to 20 points or less in the NFL, you should win. Unfortunately, the Dolphins are once again one of the most boring teams in the league. Even Jax is a lot more fun to watch than them.
 
if the Jets are any good at all they would have scored 35 to 40. Receivers were open all day long
 
All the Jets needed to score was 8 points to win this one. The D did not look very good but the O was pathetic.

No, in fact I found it refreshing that we weren't kicking fg's to try and make it respectable like we've done so many times in the past.

It was the one silver lining to this game.
 
There are NO contested throws, none I have seen.

So far the opposing QBs are 49-62 for almost 600 yards and 2 TDs, no ints.

That's beyond terrible and if we can't figure out how to run the ball a little, it may get worse.
 
There are NO contested throws, none I have seen.

So far the opposing QBs are 49-62 for almost 600 yards and 2 TDs, no ints.

That's beyond terrible and if we can't figure out how to run the ball a little, it may get worse.
1 pass defensed in two games by Xavian Howard.

Defense is giving up 18.5 ppg (albeit against two anemic offenses) but the offense is only scoring 12.5 ppg. So the defense needs to hold other teams to 12 points or less to give us a chance to win.
 
If the offense can't stay on the field then points will go up with our opponents. There isn't a defense that sustain the time of possession we have given up, something's got to give.

Yes its been a problem for the last 5 years. In that time the average number of plays per game per unit is 64.3 for the league. The Dolphins have ran 61.3 on offense and faced 67.1 on defense during that period. Almost 6 plays a game differential amounts to 460 extra plays faced by the defense over that 5 year period. That differential is the worst in the league by a wide margin.

Play differential 2012-2016

Miami -460
Tennessee -354
Jacksonville -340
Cleveland -274

Good company right there. LOL

Other other end of spectrum

New Orleans +384
New England +305
 
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