AFC East is up for grabs, Dolphins begin Jets week (take 2)

Oct. 22 News and Notes 7 comments ---Bill

The Miami Dolphins kicked up their feet and watched the craziness that is the AFC East, unravel a bit on Sunday.  The Dolphins were on their bye week and the new CBA says that the team had to have 4 consecutive days without practice.  That stretch for the Dolphins went from Thursday through Sunday.  So the Dolphins had plenty of time Sunday to sit back and watch the madness of the AFC East from a fans perspective.  Entering Sunday, all 4 teams were tied with 3-3 records. Only the Dolphins would end the weekend with that record.

First, the Bills and Titans played a game that saw very little defense.  Titans and Bills exchanged punches, with the Bills eventually jumping out to a 34-28 lead in the 4th quarter.  Their defense would allow the Titans to score a touchdown on 4th down to take a 35-34 lead in the game’s final minutes.  The Titans would hold on to win, dropping the Bills to 3-4.

Then, we watched a crazy game between the Jets and Patriots.  The Patriots led 23-13 at one point in the 4th quarter, only to blow that lead and allow the Jets to tie the game.  After a fumble on the kickoff directly following the tying field goal, the Jets actually took a 26-23 lead.  Tom Brady, of course, lead the Patriots down the field for the tying field goal to force overtime.  In overtime, the Patriots kicked a field goal on the opening possession and the Mark Sanchez fumbled the game away.  Literally, a game ending fumble.  So this morning the Patriots sit atop the AFC East at 4-3, while the Dolphins are in second at 3-3, with the Bills and Jets tied for last at 3-4.

What Sunday showed was that the AFC is relatively even. The Jets went to Foxboro, without Darrelle Revis and Santonio Holmes and gave the Patriots all they could handle.  The Bills were one defensive stop away from being 4-3.  Immediately after the Jets game ended, Dolphins left guard, Richie Incognito tweeted “It’s officially Jets Week #TurnUp”.  That’s right Richie, it is Jets week.  And this week’s game is big for the Dolphins…..very big.  (cont’d on page 2, click below)

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  • Brewbear

    They have got to take it 1 game at a time and play each game for 60 min.We still need lady luck sitting with us.we are just not that good to have very many mistakes.

  • newengfinfan

    Agree with Brewbear, We have to play mistake free and play 60 minutes of football not 55. Of the 3 losses this year, it all came down to 5-6 minutes of mistakes.

    • Miami Jules

      Hey Fin… nice to see you… I also agree with you guys… 1 game at a time and play the full 60… as you may remmebr Fin, I have said this and added the bit about the lat 4th quarter when we have collapsed in the past. We have happily, now reversed our trend. We need to continue that trend reversal and the best way is to play one down at a time without trying to go for the win in one play when it’s late in the 4th and end up 2nd down and long, which, in the past, has translated to 3 and out. The way we played the Bengals and the Rams in the closing minutes of the game, is what we must do to keep winning.

  • Henry

    Okay…what gives with these multiple auto video launches every time I visit this web site. Its really annoying trying to read the article and have 3 videos playing at the same time. I understand the whole advertising revenue thing but this is way beyond.

    GO DOLPHINS !

    • Bill

      Henry, we understand your concern, unfortunately the advertisers populate the ads, sometimes they are banners, sometimes they are auto-play videos. We are in the process of negotiating with new advertisers to limit the auto-play ads

      • Steve

        I agree with the auto play ad comment! I will leave this page out of frustration when they pop up. I have no interest in their products or services….I’m here to read about my Dolphins!

        • http://www.phinnation.com Bill

          Thanks for your comment Steve, we’re hear to tell you about the Dolphins! As I mentioned to Henry, we are working to remove the autoplays so that only banner ads are shown. The autoplays do not happen all of the time, but we understand that they can be annoying, so we are trying to resolve the issue with our partners.