Losers Of 4 Straight, Dolphins Seeing Bad Come In Bunches

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The atrocious comes successful bunches for the Miami Dolphins.

At immoderate constituent successful each of the past 4 games, determination has been a agelong wherever the Dolphins person fixed up astatine slightest 20 unanswered points.

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Not surprisingly, they’ve mislaid each four, including Sunday’s 45-17 debacle astatine Tampa Bay that sent Miami 3 games down Buffalo successful the AFC East race.

“We’ve got a radical that sticks together, that supports each other, that understands and knows however hard they work, however hard they prepare,” Dolphins manager Brian Flores said Monday. “We’re conscionable not getting the results that we privation close now.”

An elixir oregon 2 mightiness beryllium awaiting.

There’s lone 1 squad successful the AFC with a worse grounds than Miami. That would beryllium the Jacksonville Jaguars, losers of 20 consecutive games, and they volition beryllium the hostile for the Dolphins this Sunday erstwhile the teams conscionable successful London.

And if that wasn’t capable crushed for hope, the Dolphins mightiness get backmost Tua Tagovailoa backmost this week. Tagovailoa has missed astir 4 afloat games — helium was wounded successful the 2nd bid of Week 2 against Buffalo — with fractured ribs and is eligible to travel disconnected injured reserve this week.

Tagovailoa threw immoderate passes connected Monday, continuing to ramp up his rehab and recovery.

“He’s decidedly making progress,” Flores said. “We’ll benignant of instrumentality this time to day, but we’re hopeful that helium tin signifier this week.”

It’s been the aforesaid communicative for Miami each season: Running the shot has been a challenge, lone the New York Jets are averaging less points than the Dolphins aft 5 weeks, third-down conversions person not travel capable connected offense, third-down conversions are yielded acold excessively often connected defense.

But 3 of Miami’s adjacent 4 games are against teams successful akin positions: Jacksonville (0-5) awaits this week, past the Dolphins instrumentality location to look Atlanta (2-3).

A travel to Buffalo — the Bills are simply owning the Dolphins these days — awaits connected Oct. 31, to beryllium followed by a matchup with Houston (1-4). And erstwhile that agelong is over, Miami volition inactive person 2 games with the Jets and different with the New York Giants.

Things tin beryllium fixed. Maybe.

“Obviously, the cliché is, ‘It’s aboriginal successful the season, but it truly is,'” said backmost Jacoby Brissett, who has held the relation with Tagovailoa sidelined.

“We person a batch of shot up of america and we can’t absorption truthful overmuch connected the results. It’s conscionable much truthful getting amended each week and successful which I deliberation we are. I proceed to accidental it, but we really are getting better.”

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WHAT’S WORKING

Brissett. Give him recognition for the effort against the Bucs: 275 yards, 27 for 39 passing, 2 touchdowns, 1 interception. And helium played overmuch of the crippled portion intelligibly laboring done a hamstring issue.

WHAT NEEDS HELP

The secondary. This was expected to beryllium the spot of the defence and it was a catastrophe connected Sunday. Tom Brady embarrassed Miami by completing 30 of 41 passes for 411 yards and 5 touchdowns. Yes, he’s Tom Brady. But that was inactive the archetypal 400-yard, five-TD crippled of his career, and helium was relentless.

STOCK UP

RB Myles Gaskin. He had 10 catches (on 10 targets) and 2 touchdown grabs, 1 of the precise fewer agleam spots for the Dolphins.

STOCK DOWN

Everything else. Through 5 games, there’s thing that the Dolphins tin constituent to arsenic thing that’s been reliable oregon dependable connected a play basis.

INJURIES

Tagovailoa throwing connected Monday is simply a bully sign, though the biggest indicator of this week’s program for him volition apt travel Wednesday astatine practice. TE Adam Shaheen (knee) is considered time to time for now, and the Dolphins are unclear however overmuch helium volition beryllium disposable this week.

KEY NUMBER

3: This is lone the 3rd clip successful Dolphins past that they person started a play 1-4. The 2006 squad finished 6-10; the 2016 squad finished 10-6 and made the playoffs, losing successful the wild-card circular to Pittsburgh. There were 4 different Miami teams that started 0-5; nary of them made the playoffs.

NEXT STEPS

Off to London the Dolphins spell this week, jetting implicit Thursday nighttime to look the Jaguars determination connected Sunday.

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