The Miami Dolphins fell to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday by a score of 15-10. While keeping it close only really counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades, as they say, it was Miami\u2019s narrowest defeat of the season through four tough contests. This team is getting better, despite the considerable limitations they are under regarding the mammoth amount of dead cap they are currently dealing with, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s long before they steal a victory to finally get into the win column this year.<\/p>\n
Of course there are still glaring problems on this team \u2014 covering tight ends has been one of those problems. T.J. Hockenson was targeted 13 times yesterday \u2014 he caught all 13 passes for a game high 119 yards receiving. Special teams is another \u2014 with multiple errors leading to fantastic starting field position for the Vikings on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n
Our Fins Up player from Miami\u2019s week three loss is defensive tackle Zach Sieler. It had been a rough start to the season for Miami\u2019s veteran defender, however, on Sunday against the Vikings, Sieler unleashed his frustrations on Minnesota quarterback Kyler Murray \u2014 sacking the diminutive passer twice on the afternoon to account for half of Miami\u2019s four sacks on the day.<\/p>\n
Sieler hadn\u2019t sacked an opposing quarterback since Week 16 of last season. He finished last season with just 5.5 sacks after having 10 sacks in both the 2023 and 2024 seasons. If he can continue the momentum he began building on Sunday, Miami\u2019s monster in the middle could easily surpass last year\u2019s sack total in short order.<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s Fins Down personality is once again special teams coordinator Chris Tabor. Tabor, a respected coach in the National Football League, has now been named in our Fins Down section twice this season \u2014 also earning the dubious distinction after week one\u2019s dismal performance from his unit.<\/p>\n
All afternoon long, Minnesota\u2019s offense was treated to great starting field position due to Miami\u2019s inability to cover kick returns with any competency. Tabor is working with what he has \u2014 and what he has is a bunch of young, inexperienced football players trying to make their mark on an undermanned Dolphins squad. However, it is his job to coach them up and maximize their abilities. Unfortunately, he isn\u2019t doing such a great job at that just yet\u2026<\/p>\n
His next opportunity to show that he should remain on Miami\u2019s staff will come this Sunday when the Dolphins host the Cincinnati Bengals at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins fell to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday by a score of 15-10. While keeping it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,135179,88527,125,124],"class_list":["post-419361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins-analysis","tag-miami-dolphins-stock-watch","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}