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 believed we had been gentle,” he stated, per ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques. “Easy as that, I believed we had been gentle
as we speak. 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 gaggle, 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 deliver their ft by the deal with.”
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) might not get the consequence they anticipated
on the finish of the common season.
With the defeat, Miami’s probabilities of making the postseason slipped to 12 %, 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 house 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’t 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 in all probability should win out in opposition to the Jets (at house), Houston (highway), 49ers (house), Browns (highway) and Jets (highway) 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 circumstances a lot, a lot colder than South Seaside.