Disappointing, frustrating, discouraging, all of these adjectives could be used to describe the Miami Dolphins 2015 season after 10 games.
The team’s latest setbacks was on Sunday when the team lost at home 24-14 to the Dallas Cowboys. While the Dolphins defense wasn’t terrible, they couldn’t prevent the Cowboys from scoring 10 points in the fourth quarter, including a 16-yard pass to Dez Bryant that put the game on ice.
Now at 4-6, where do the Dolphins go from here? Yes, Miami is still technically in the wild-card race, but does anyone truly believe they will win five out of last six games to make the postseason a possibility?
“After all of this and everything that’s been said and done, we still have a chance,” Dolphins interim head coach Dan Campbell said. “I mean we still have an opportunity. It’s still out there for us. We know what we’re capable of. When we do it right we can play good football and we can compete with anybody in this league when we do it right. We just got to clean up these mistakes. I mean you just take away two or three of those mistakes and we’re back in this game. Yeah, certainly they need to know that there’s still hope out there.”
“We need a win, that’s pretty much it,” Brent Grimes said on Monday’s locker room session with the media.
While the Dolphins are just 1.5 games back of Buffalo for the last wild-card spot in the AFC, the team would likely have to win out because they currently lose tiebreakers with virtually every contending team.
“We’ve still got a chance,” defensive end Olivier Vernon said. “We’re not making up any fairy tale. We know what we’ve got to do.”
If the Dolphins are to turn around their season, it has to start with their offense. Miami is currently 26th in the NFL in total offense and points per game as they are only averaging 20.5 per contest.
The Dolphins defense isn’t much better as they are also ranked 26th in the league as they give up an average of 389.8 yards per game.
The only games the Dolphins have scored 20 points or more this season were against the Tennessee Titans (38) and the Houston Texans (44).
Third-down conversations have also been a problem as the Dolphins have converted 27.8 percent third-down plays for first downs.
The good news is, the Dolphins have four of their last six games at Sun Life Stadium. The bad news is, that might not help as Miami is 5-6 at home since the beginning of the 2014 season.
Miami will travel to East Rutherford, N.J. to take on the New York Jets this Sunday as they will be looking for their first AFC East divisional win of 2015.
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