{"id":444696,"date":"2026-11-02T01:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T01:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444696\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T01:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T01:02:37","slug":"dolphins-patriots-instant-analysis-from-miamis-24-19-loss-to-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444696\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins-Patriots: Instant analysis from Miami&#8217;s 24-19 loss to New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick thoughts from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/sports\/nfl\/miami-dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Florida Sun Sentinel staffers<\/a> on the Dolphins\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/11\/01\/dolphins-blow-10-point-halftime-lead-drop-rain-soaked-game-to-patriots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loss to\u00a0the New England Patriots at Hard Rock Stadium as Miami falls to 1-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Perkins, Dolphins Columnist<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins held on for as long as they could but the better team won Sunday. Patriots QB Drake Maye crushed the Dolphins in the second half and Miami\u2019s run game, No. 7 in the league entering this week\u2019s games, never got anything going against New England\u2019s run defense, which was No. 8. The Dolphins needed a pass rush in the second half and it never materialized. The secondary also needed to make a play but it couldn\u2019t get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>David Furones, Dolphins Writer<\/p>\n<p>It looked like the Dolphins could continue to roll with the momentum established in last week\u2019s first win against the Jets. The defending AFC-champion Patriots were a different animal, though. Miami put together a really nice first\u00a0half, but Drake Maye picked the secondary apart in the second half, and it snowballed into 21 unanswered points.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Svekis, Assistant Sports Editor<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins had a second straight shaky second half after leading at the intermission, and while they were able to stave off the Jets last week, the Patriots just had too much quality for Miami to recede so significantly. Still, progress with an ultra-young team needs to be measured incrementally, and the rookies (Jacob Rodriguez, Caleb Douglas, Kevin Coleman) and other\u00a0youngsters flashed with some plays yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Keven Lerner, Assistant Sports Editor<\/p>\n<p>Drake Maye found his groove in the second half and sort of left the Dolphins in his dust, or, mud as the case was. Still, the Dolphins had their moments. There is evident growth in areas each week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick thoughts from South Florida Sun Sentinel staffers on the Dolphins\u2019 loss to\u00a0the New England Patriots at Hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,1763,125,124,10830],"class_list":["post-444696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-new-england-patriots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444696","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=444696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}