Amazon Reviewers Give Strong Message for Dolphins

The Miami Dolphins face a big test against the Buffalo Bills on Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime, and the first four NFL players in the pregame and postgame were featured very strong words about the importance of the game for Mike McDaniel’s team.

Buffalo has won the series recently, winning 11 of the last 12 games, which did not help the Bills win the AFC East title four years ago.

Amazon Prime analysts Richard Sherman, Andrew Whitworth, Tony Gonzalez, and former Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick participated in a Zoom media session Wednesday morning.

I asked them about their confidence in the Dolphins’ ability to take the next step this season and go from making the playoffs to winning the playoffs and even winning the AFC East title.

“It starts this game because they have to show they can beat Buffalo,” Sherman said. “Because if they beat Buffalo last year, then they’re playing Pittsburgh in the first game instead of going to Kansas City in first place. It’s things like that that you have to focus on, that changed look at the season. you know, they’re the better team this week, technically, they’re the more talented team.

Fitzpatrick was next to answer that question.

“I would say it’s a big lesson from last year,” he began. “And you know the point, I know you know Tua’s record in the cold, I say this team is built on speed. This team is not finesse. This team is explosive, but they need to get a home playoff game this year this over the hump is a playoff game.”

Both Whitworth and Gonzalez went further, pointing out that the Dolphins must improve their game if they hope to be legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

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“I think they should get those games started in Miami, because I think it’s a big influence,” Whitworth said. “You look at this offense, I think they need a chance to play a lot of these games in Miami, in the playoffs, and you’re going to take this story away a little bit. But the truth is in cold weather games. In those situations , there’s a winning style of football, and playing well on defense and being able to have a successful running game. You look at Andy Reid and the success the Kings have, but people don’t talk about that when they get to the games, they play a lot of 12 and 13 workers (one back and two and three tights respectively), and they run the football and they do a lot of things differently every year so far these last two years, the last playoffs, it’s the same game plan that executes and wins.

“And so it’s almost for me, to be able to understand that the NFL season is really, to me, broken into parts. There are these eight to ten games that start the season, we’re explosion, we win games, all those things. You will see everything as electricity, players, making games, and the last half of the season, the teams are beaten, and even if you have and the best player and is healthy, the game is slow, and you. You will be able to play football well and win if you can play defense, if you can run. football, whether you can do well on offense and not make too many mistakes of the other team. go out and play very successful football, and when you get to the game, you have to play football and have explosives built into it.

“And I think to me, when you look at the teams that make the run, there are little pieces that are built into it. And so this Dolphins team is the most important thing that they have to show that They can beat the Buffalo Bills. They have to show they can play football and play that way against good teams, which everybody does. respect that way, and that will give them such confidence to make the next season go.”

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Gonzalez was one analyst who doubted the Dolphins’ ability to run deep.

“There is, to me, no way the Miami Dolphins are going to go all the way to the Super Bowl,” he said. “They’re not enough. And physical-wise, when you look at the Kings, a lot of people are going to mistake them for saying, ‘Oh, well, they’ve got Patrick Mahomes and they’re a finesse team, and you look at them.’ in the end. In the year, they suddenly got their victory in the Super Bowl because of their defense, It is clear that Patrick is a great football player, but Chris Jones and Nick Bolton and Sneed that last year, McDuffie, boys children will come out and wake up. bring it to protect you.

“I mean, don’t get me wrong, the Dolphins have talented players on that side of the ball, if they stay healthy, I’d love to see that happen, go into the playoffs healthy. , but for now, until it’s proven otherwise, their style, I find it hard to believe they can have a good football team, be a playoff team, and I’m sure they will. know that, and they have it.

“They’ve got to be prepared, we’re going to be a physical team, but that’s what the Chiefs have done. Just copy them. You can be a finesse team and be a physical team at the same time. There’s no the reason why they can’t do that, but I haven’t seen, and we’ll see what they can do this year.”