Buffalos Show How Tough They are Making the Dolphins Pushovers

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“We kept playing to our strengths, kept running the ball. Kept hitting them with the same two plays repeatedly,” left guard Richie Incognito bragged about Buffalo’s outside tackle runs, which featured the guards pulling to block Dolphins linebackers on the second level.

There hasn’t been much this expensive Dolphins’ defense — with or without Cameron Wake, who suffered a season-ending Achilles injury against the New England Patriots — has been able to stop this season.

The Dolphins’ offense gets plenty of blame for the team’s struggles, as they should considering Miami has failed to score 21 or more points six times this season (24.7 was the NFL average coming into Sunday’s game). It is hard for any team to win when the offensive is merely putting up 17 points, like Miami did against Buffalo.

The Bills–Dolphins rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins. The teams, who are members of the American Football Conference East Division, play two games against one another per season. In the 100 regular season games between the teams in the series, the Dolphins lead 57–41–1 as of 2015. The teams have also met four times in the NFL playoffs. The Bills are 3–1 in the postseason, including a victory in the 1992 AFC Championship Game.
But the Dolphins’ defense didn’t give themselves a chance, allowing 420 total yards and 8.2 yards per play to the Bills.

The defense also allowed Buffalo to convert 8-of-13 third down attempts, two of which turned into touchdowns.

And what team can allow a season-high 266 rushing yards?

“It’s hard to win a game if you’re going to give the offense the run, especially for that many yards,” defensive end Olivier Vernon said. “We take [blame] for that one as a defense, especially the defensive line. We shouldn’t have let that happen.”

With the exception of Miami’s two-game winning streak — which came against mediocre Titans and Texans teams — the Dolphins’ defense has consistently struggled.

The Dolphins are averaging a dismal two sacks per game.

Miami hasn’t stopped the run all season, allowing 142 rushing yards per game.

And the Dolphins aren’t much better defending the pass. Opposing quarterbacks have a 97.1 passer rating against Miami’s defense. Detroit’s defense came into Sunday’s game allowing a league-high 111.1 passer rating.

Bills receiver Sammy Watkins caught all eight of the passes that came his way on Sunday. Despite being shadowed by Pro Bowl cornerback Brent Grimes, Buffalo’s top receiver had a season-high 168 receiving yards, and scored a touchdown on a 44-yard deep ball from Tyrod Taylor, who had a 146.5 passer rating.

“I messed up. Made some mistakes at the line and when you do that in this league they can make big plays so I take blame for it,” said Grimes, who shadowed his second receiver this season. “I didn’t bring my ‘A’ game. … Sammy Watkins had a great game.”

Before Sunday’s game, Grimes was one of the few defenders who showed up and performed well just about every week, and now even he’s struggling, just like this season’s defense.

And we’re only at the midseason point, which hints that things could get worse, just like they did late last season.

On September 7, 1980, the Bills recorded their first victory versus the Dolphins in 21 games. With a pair of touchdowns in the final quarter, Buffalo won 17–7. After the conclusion, fans at Rich Stadium rushed the field in celebration, tearing down one of the goal posts in the process. In 1983, the Dolphins hosted the Bills in rookie Dan Marino’s first NFL start. The Dolphins overcame a 14–0 gap to lead 35–28 in the final minute before Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson led a game-tying comeback. The game in the Miami Orange Bowl went to overtime, where Dolphins placekicker Uwe von Schamann was unsuccessful on two potential game-winning field goal attempts. The Bills won 38–35 when Joe Danelo made a 36-yard field goal attempt late in overtime;  it was Buffalo’s first road win in the rivalry for 17 years. Ferguson had 419 yards passing and five touchdowns in the game; the former set a franchise record. Other than those two contests, Miami won 11 of the other 12 games between the teams from 1980–86. United Press International termed the matchup “one of pro football’s most lopsided rivalries” in 1983. The Bills, however, won the series’ last six games in the 1980s. The first of those came in October 1987, when the Bills won 34–31 in overtime after trailing the Dolphins 21–0 in the first half; the game featured six combined touchdown passes by the teams’ quarterbacks, Marino of Miami and Jim Kelly of Buffalo. The last of the contests for the decade was a 1989 game decided by a two-yard rushing touchdown by Kelly as time expired.

Omar KellyContact ReporterSun Sentinel Commentary

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