Jarvis Landry’s throw was off target.
But the look he appeared to shoot his intended receiver afterward was right on the money.
After one-hopping a gadget pass to tight end MarQueis Gray on Sunday, Landry seemed to stare down Gray for a few seconds before turning his attention to the next play.
That exchange, caught by local TV cameras, was one of several flashes of frustration by Landry against the Jets. New York held Miami’s “best player,” in the words of coach Adam Gase, to a season-low three catches for just 33 yards. Landry came off the field hot on more than one occasion.
“He gets frustrated at times, but he’s a competitor,” Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill said. “I just think his drive to win is extremely high and he’s very emotional. Sometimes he lets his emotions get up on him a little bit. In the end, he just wants to win, wants to do everything he can to help this team win and that’s what you want.”
Landry’s intensity has been a matter of great debate in the month since his illegal high block on Aaron Williams, which injured Williams and drew a stiff fine from the league. But don’t count Gase among those worried about Landry’s behavior toward both the opposition and his own teammates.
“I think there’s a lot of us that have a certain way that we deal with things,” Gase said. “I know there’s sometimes, and you guys can’t see it, that I’m losing a little bit of my mind. Everybody handles it different.”
By and large, that fire has been a blessing, not a curse, for Landry. Why? His intensity is transferable. He seems to run a defender over every week — Landry knocked off Jets safety Marcus Gilchrist’s helmet near the goal line Sunday — and every time, it fires up his teammates.
