{"id":80338,"date":"2025-12-12T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80338\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:05:16","slug":"miami-dolphins-look-to-end-steelers-34-year-monday-night-home-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80338\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins look to end Steelers&#8217; 34-year Monday night home winning streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Miami Dolphins will attempt to end a Monday night home winning streak that the Pittsburgh Steelers have had for 34 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Steelers have won 22 straight home games on Monday night, a streak that dates to 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: Dolphins look to end Pittsburgh&#8217;s home dominance on MNF<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cold weather has been a big topic this week, with temperatures in Pittsburgh forecast in the 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dolphins running back De&#8217;Von Achane, who exited last week with a rib injury, was a full participant at practice Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While Achane looks like he will be ready to go, Pittsburgh star pass rusher TJ Watt is hospitalized with a lung injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a slow start to the season, Miami is now among the hottest teams in all of the NFL, riding a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/sports\/football\/dolphins\/tagovailoa-leads-dolphins-to-4th-straight-victory-defeat-jets-34-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">four-game winning streak.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A key to that success is that the team has shifted its focus from an air-it-out offense to a ground-and-pound approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Miami has four 150-yard rushing games this season while the Steelers rank 21st in the NFL in rush defense. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said he never underestimates a Mike Tomlin-led team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;That&#8217;s 20 years of over .500 football play, and we&#8217;ll have to put a good work week together,&#8221; McDaniel said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve played them multiple times, and it&#8217;s always been that same story: to earn a win, it will not be handed to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Miami has won five of six games following a 1-6 start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Portions of this article courtesy of the Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins will attempt to end a Monday night home winning streak that the Pittsburgh Steelers have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16780,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-80338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-color","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80338","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=80338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}