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Alex Marvez @alexmarvez 6m6 minutes ago
So it's taken Suh all of 2 games to start doing his own thing. How do Kevin Coyle & Joe Philbin handle a guy w/more job security than them?
Not overly encouraging that you are ranked 5th in points allowed when your opponents are the Jags and Redskins.
Not suggesting the offense doesn't share in the blame but the defense is worse than the second half of last season.
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Angry. Embarrassed. Confused.
Go ahead and choose an adjective to describe how the Dolphins feel after losing 23-20 in Jacksonville. All of the above works.
“All 53 guys have a good reason to be pissed,” linebacker Kelvin Sheppard. “We’ve got to look at the tape, look in the mirror and evaluate ourselves.”
Miami was favored by seven or more points on the road for just the fifth time in the last 20 years yet lost to a Jaguars team widely considered among the worst in the league.
The Dolphins have been talking the talk since training camp began — throwing out words like Super Bowl and champions.
Yet they nearly lost in Washington last week before eking out a 17-10 win.
There was no escape in Jacksonville.
Whether you’re playing the Patriots or the Jaguars, it’s tough to win when you have 13 penalties for 112 yards and you don’t have a single rushing first down.
“I’m about as frustrated as I can be right now,” said tight end Jordan Cameron, who dealt with the loss and a groin injury that kept him out of the game in crunch time.
In reality, the Dolphins are 1-1 and there are 14 games left.
New England started 2-2 last season, including a 41-14 loss to Kansas City. The Patriots went on to win the Super Bowl.
But the difference is that the Dolphins have been losers for so long and this year was supposed to start with a bang.
The Dolphins signed defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh to a $114 million deal — the largest ever for a defensive player — so they could stop the run.
Through two games Suh has hardly been a force and the Dolphins are giving up 142 yards per game.
The offense — which averaged 24 points per game last year and was supposed to improve in offensive coordinator Bill Lazor’s second season — is averaging just 18.5 points in two games.
Some of the players say it’s way too early for panic — internally or from the outside.
“It’s been two games,” defensive end Derrick Shelby said. “We still have a lot of games to go. We have to put an identity for ourselves out there. We’re still searching for the answer but that’s not who we are, who we feel we are.”
The fan base isn’t so patient.
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The Dolphins have to quickly figure out why they can’t stop the run. Are they not putting the right personnel on the field? Does defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle have to change the schemes?
Miami has to figure out why they start games so slowly — a problem that has doomed them for several seasons under Philbin — and why they’re struggling in the red zone.