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 have been delicate,” he stated, per ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques. “Easy as that, I assumed we have been delicate
at the moment. I do not know if guys was too chilly. … I do not know what it was. I really feel
like the weather performed an element in how we performed as a bunch, and that was the
consequence that we obtained.”
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 carry their toes via the sort out.”
Per NextGen Stats by way of ESPN, the Dolphins missed 20 tackles in opposition to the Packers.
“Them guys regarded like they was chilly on the market,” Green Bay running back Josh Jacobs said about Miami.
Now the Dolphins (5-7) could not get the consequence 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 in opposition to 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 virtually assured to be performed in circumstances a lot, a lot colder than South Seaside.
