Traditions are important. In football they are almost considered sacred. Maybe that’s why the Rams didn’t want to break the tradition that sees them defeated against the Miami Dolphins. The Rams and Dolphins have met 15 times in the history of the NFL, and the Rams have only won in 1976 and 2001, and even on this occasion it was the Dolphins who prevailed 23-15.
The result says a lot about the game, because the Rams’ 15 points all came from field goals
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It wasn’t a good match. The two attacks were painful to watch, a little less so than Miami’s but mostly because the Rams’ defense made more mistakes than the Dolphins’. The trend of the game, in fact, was clear from the start, with the Dolphins suffering pressure from the opposing front seven and looking like they were on the verge of having to finish the first Down
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This was the leitmotif of the evening for Miami when they were on offense. Great pressure from Turner, Verse, Young and Fiske, many negative plays stopped in the offensive backfield and then the intuition of Tagovailoa (or rather “Tongavailoa” as Joe Buck called him throughout the game) to catch a secondary that was clearly not up to the front seven for Los Angeles. And even when the break arrived that could finally turn the game around, as on the occasion of Rozeboom’s interception (!!!), the Los Angeles attack immediately returned the ball to the opponents with a Fumble
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With the roles reversed, almost the same thing happened, because the Rams were also often blocked behind the line of scrimmage
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What surprised most of all was the horrible performance of the attacking line, which returned two starters in Steve Avila and Jonah Jackson and which saw Joe Noteboom replace the injured Rob Havenstein. It probably wasn’t a good idea to change 3/5 lines in one fell swoop, even considering that both Beaux Limmer and Justin Dedich certainly didn’t disfigure in the last few games.
This victory keeps alive a flame of hope for the Dolphins, who go to 3-6, even if very faint, given that the Division now seems gone, and it will also be necessary to understand the extent of the injuries to Fuller (concussion), Conner and Jones for the next matches. At the Rams, however, we are licking our wounds and we see the Cardinals and 49ers moving away, making the playoff goal increasingly difficult to achieve. With Monday evening’s performance, then, it will be very difficult to keep up with more organized and structured teams than these Dolphins who, however, without making any major mistakes, managed to take the entire prize home.
