Miami Dolphins linebacker Jordyn Brooks didn’t maintain something again about his workforce’s effort after a 30-17 loss at frigid Inexperienced Bay on Thursday.
“I assumed we had been tender,” he mentioned, per ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques. “Easy as that, I assumed we had been tender
in the present day. I do not know if guys was too chilly. … I do not know what it was. I really feel
like the weather performed a component in how we performed as a gaggle, and that was the
outcome that we received.”
On Friday, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel appeared to agree with Brooks, saying, per the Miami Herald, “I noticed a constant failure of tacklers to deliver their ft by the sort out.”
Per NextGen Stats through ESPN, the Dolphins missed 20 tackles towards the Packers.
“Them guys regarded like they was chilly on the market,” Inexperienced Bay working again Josh Jacobs mentioned about Miami.
Now the Dolphins (5-7) could not get the outcome they anticipated
on the finish of the common season.
With the defeat, Miami’s possibilities of making the postseason slipped to 12 p.c, per ESPN.com. The second-place Dolphins path Buffalo (9-2) by 4.5 video games within the AFC East. With a win Sunday at dwelling over the San Francisco 49ers, the Payments can clinch the division.
Miami’s loss provides one other log to a roaring fireplace of a story that it can not win in chilly climate. Per ESPN, the loss to Inexperienced Bay was the Dolphins’ seventh straight when the temperature at kickoff is under freezing.
To make the playoffs, Miami most likely should win out towards the Jets (at dwelling), Houston (street), 49ers (dwelling), Browns (street) and Jets (street) and maybe get assist from different groups.
Do not maintain out hope, Dolphins followers. These final two video games are nearly assured to be performed in situations a lot, a lot colder than South Seaside.
