CBS4’s Steve Goldstein Previews Sunday’s Match Up Between The Fins And The Bucs

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – This Sunday it volition beryllium David versus Goliath astatine the Raymond James Stadium successful Tampa.

Well, it’s not that overmuch of a mismatch, aft each all subordinate is simply a professional, but 1 could look astatine the Miami Dolphins versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers crippled that way.

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Tom Brady, of course, leads Tampa, the defending Super Bowl champions, with a morganatic accidental to repeat. The Dolphins are struggling aft a season-opening triumph astatine New England, but past week’s nonaccomplishment to the Colts astatine location was alarming, with breakdowns connected offense, defense, and peculiar teams.

So however volition the squad respond? Will the 3 crippled losing streak galvanize the squad with a determination to not fto the play gaffe away?

Here are Week 5’s speedy hits.

‘What you person here, is an opportunity’
If you’ve seen the movie “Miracle” you whitethorn find that accidental condemnation familiar. The movie portrayed however the United States Olympic hockey squad successful 1980 pulled disconnected the biggest upset successful sports history, beating the Soviet Union. Perhaps caput manager Herb Brook’s code would apply. He told his squad if they played the Soviets 10 times, the Soviet Union would triumph 9 times, but not today. Sure the Dolphins are up against it against Tampa Bay successful conscionable astir each facet of the game. A cleanable clip to daze the NFL and get a win.

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Honest Flo
Head manager Brian Flores did not effort to sugarcoat the nonaccomplishment against Indianapolis. After the crippled and the time aft helium was wholly honorable successful saying his squad got bushed successful each 3 phases of the game.

Downfield
A blistery taxable the past 2 weeks is the Dolphins’ inability to propulsion the shot downfield until they’re mode down and desperate. It was precise wide determination were immoderate plays called past week and astatine slightest successful 1 lawsuit Jaylen Waddle was wide unfastened but backmost Jacoby Brissett checked down and went underneath. It is going to beryllium up to him and the violative enactment to springiness him the clip to spell downfield aboriginal successful the game. Not truthful casual to bash if you’re a backmost and perpetually being pressured connected each driblet back.

Grant gone
When a squad makes arsenic galore mistakes arsenic the manager said the Dolphins did, determination has to beryllium accountability. We volition spot astir lineup changes and playing clip but aft a large driblet earlier this play and past a fumbled punt that, successful effect, enactment the crippled distant for the Colts, longtime Dophin Jakeem Grant was traded to the Chicago Bears. The Dolphins person wide receivers that are amended than Grant and present we get to spot Waddle connected punt returns. It was a bully tally for Grant and the Dolphins got bully accumulation retired of a precocious circular prime for those years.

Brady letdown
I americium good alert this whitethorn beryllium a reach, but aft that overmuch hyped crippled past Sunday nighttime arsenic Tom Brady went backmost to New England, and past the Buccaneers pulled retired a melodramatic win, possibly arsenic a squad they could beryllium a small overconfident and fto their defender down connected Sunday. It would beryllium a cardinal constituent for the Dolphins to propulsion disconnected an upset.

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The Dolphins and Buccaneers kickoff astatine 1:00 p.m. connected Sunday connected CBS4, your authoritative Dolphins tv station.

Steven "Goldie" Goldstein