{"id":219986,"date":"2025-10-12T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219986\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:00:07","slug":"chargers-29-27-dolphins-oct-12-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219986\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers 29-27 Dolphins (Oct 12, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — \u2014 Justin Herbert<\/a> escaped the Dolphins’ pass rush and connected with <\/a>Ladd McConkey<\/a> for a 42-yard catch-and-run in the final minute, setting up Cameron Dicker<\/a>‘s fifth field goal of the game, and the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> rallied to beat Miami 29-27 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins overcame a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter and took the lead when Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Darren Waller<\/a> with 46 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Nyheim Hines set the Chargers up at Miami’s 35 with a 40-yard return of the ensuing kickoff. On second-and-10, Herbert stepped up in the pocket, got free from the grasp of Jaelan Phillips<\/a> and threw a short pass to McConkey, who broke a tackle and ran out of bounds at the Miami 17. Dicker’s 33-yard kick won it for Los Angeles (4-2), which snapped a two-game skid.<\/p>\n

Herbert completed 29 of 38 passes for 264 yards and two touchdowns. Kimani Vidal<\/a>, getting the bulk of carries for Los Angeles\u2019 banged-up backfield, finished with 18 rushes for 124 yards and had a 7-yard touchdown catch. McConkey had seven catches for 100 yards and a TD.<\/p>\n

Tagovailoa, who finished with 205 yards passing, threw his third interception of the day on Miami’s final possession, and the Dolphins (1-5) were booed off the field at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n

Both of Herbert\u2019s TD throws came in the second half as the Chargers turned a four-point third-quarter deficit into a 10-point lead in minutes.<\/p>\n

The Chargers\u2019 opening drive of the third went 13 plays for 77 yards and ended in Herbert extending the play to find McConkey in the end zone. That put Los Angels ahead 16-13. <\/p>\n

Tagovailoa was intercepted on Miami\u2019s next drive, leading to Vidal\u2019s score that gave the Chargers a 23-13 advantage.<\/p>\n

Tagovailoa was 21 of 32 with his second three-turnover game of the season. His first pick landed in Jaylen Waddle\u2019s hands before popping out of the receiver’s grasp and into the hands of safety Tony Jefferson<\/a> on Miami\u2019s second play from scrimmage.<\/p>\n

De’Von Achane<\/a> had 16 carries for 128 yards and two TDs \u2014 including an electric 49-yard score in the first. His 4-yard run in the fourth pulled Miami within six points with about seven minutes left.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo lose like that, it\u2019s like, what more could we have done?\u201d Achane said.<\/p>\n

After Miami\u2019s much-maligned defense limited the Chargers to three field goals \u2014 one of the worst red-zone teams in the NFL, Los Angeles failed to find the end zone on its first three trips inside the 20 \u2014 the Dolphins led 13-9 at halftime.<\/p>\n

In a well-executed two-minute drill, Tagovailoa led a nine-play, 83-yard scoring drive highlighted by a bobbled 49-yard catch from Waddle to set up Riley Patterson\u2019s 27-yarder to end the half.<\/p>\n

Waddle\u2019s big gain was the Dolphins\u2019 second play of 40-plus yards in the half. Miami only had just two such plays on the season entering Sunday.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Chargers: Host Indianapolis next Sunday.<\/p>\n

Dolphins: At Cleveland next Sunday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — \u2014 Justin Herbert escaped the Dolphins’ pass rush and connected with Ladd McConkey for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-219986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}