Crowd flips the script as Dolphins stumble in 28–6 home loss

The Dolphins played successful Miami, yet it seldom felt similar a location game. A oversea of Ravens supporters filled Hard Rock Stadium and acceptable the code aboriginal successful Baltimore’s 28–6 win. On a fourth-and-1 during Miami’s 3rd drive, close tackle Larry Borom flinched aft Kyle Van Noy’s pre-snap question and drew a mendacious start. Tua Tagovailoa said the infinitesimal reflected the environment: “With the Ravens fans, it possibly got a small muffled with my cadence and the assemblage noise. We talked astir it connected the sideline aft and got that corrected.” The ensuing 35-yard effort sailed wide.

Self-inflicted wounds specify the night

Mike McDaniel’s fury flashed connected the broadcast, and helium clarified it later. “That was astatine self-inflicted wounds,” helium said. “In captious fourth-and-1… that’s level retired a controllable that our squad knows keeps you from winning. So [I was] irate astatine thing but ourself.” Miami’s issues piled up: 3 turnovers, a 2-for-12 people connected 3rd down, and 3 bare red-zone trips, including a fumble and a fourth-down incompletion from the Ravens’ 13. Fans streamed retired precocious successful the 3rd 4th arsenic Baltimore stretched the pb to 22; immoderate of those who stayed wore insubstantial bags and adjacent popcorn buckets.

A promising commencement that went nowhere

For a half, Miami controlled the shot (18:29 to 11:01) and outgained Baltimore 226–109, yet trailed 14–6. McDaniel called it “generally a atrocious omen” to beryllium down successful a crippled you should beryllium winning. Tagovailoa admitted the discourtesy “couldn’t find our flow.” The crippled flipped aft halftime, with Baltimore outgaining Miami 166–39 successful the 3rd 4th to prehend control. Linebacker Jordyn Brooks was blunt: “We’ve got to capitalize erstwhile we get down to the reddish zone… excessively galore turnovers… Until we larn however to not bushed ourselves, we won’t triumph a shot game.”

The nonaccomplishment drops Miami to 2–7, the worst commencement of McDaniel’s tenure, 4 days aft a 34–10 triumph successful Atlanta suggested momentum. The Dolphins person a 10-day model to reset earlier hosting the Bills successful Week 10. As McDaniel enactment it, fans “enjoy winning.” The task present is to springiness them thing worthy the noise.