The Miami Dolphins are 2-5 and it’s looking like the Buffalo Bills are cruising to an AFC East title without much resistance. A win for the Bills on Sunday against the Dolphins would all but guarantee that Miami has no shot at catching up.
But Mike McDaniel says there’s no time to sulk after their 28-27 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
“The answer is not to take the foot off the gas,” McDaniel said. “It’s to take a hard look, which will probably be pretty rough tomorrow, but that is what it is. We have to fix it. We have to get the win … no team’s going to frankly give a (expletive) about our problems.”
Those problems on Sunday included the inability to sack Kyler Murray or force any Cardinals turnovers, as well as four fumbles by the Dolphins offense. While Miami scooped three of those off the turf, one was shoveled out of the back of the end zone by Tua Tagovailoa for a safety.
“We can’t have those type of issues. You can’t just give free points to people,” McDaniel said. “That ended up being the difference in terms of points but it wasn’t just that play. There’s a multitude of things that ended up in points, like not connecting and settling for a field goal on the 7-yard line earlier.
“Those are things that add up, so hard lessons and they have to be lessons learned if you want it to change and so we’ll have an opportunity to do that. It’ll be a long week, but we get what we deserve.”
For now, the Dolphins don’t deserve anything more than two wins and 10th place in the AFC.
And unless Miami corrects its errors very soon, this season will be a lost cause and it’ll be time to turn the Dolphins’ attention toward making major changes for 2025 and beyond.
