Quick thoughts from South Florida Sun Sentinel staffers on the Miami Dolphins’ blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium:
Dave Hyde, Columnist
You could see the Dolphins losing Sunday. But by a beatdown like that? Lamar Jackson had an MVP day against the Dolphins defense and Tua Tagovailoa couldn’t come close to matching that.
Chris Perkins, Dolphins Columnist
Baltimore is Miami’s House of Horrors part II (after Buffalo, where they’ve lost eight consecutive games). The Dolphins have lost five of their past six games in Baltimore. Depending on how things go in the playoffs, Miami might have to beat a quality team on the road to get to the Super Bowl. They’d better hope they don’t have to travel back to Baltimore.
David Furones, Dolphins Writer
A big game where the Dolphins had a chance to accomplish something special, and it just wasn’t there. In their defense, this Ravens team looks like a monster right now, continuing to roll off last Monday night’s beatdown of the 49ers. Being down Raheem Mostert and Jaylen Waddle on offense and having Xavien Howard go down during the game hurt, but the Ravens also had their own injuries to overcome.
Keven Lerner, Assistant Sports Editor
The Ravens, ahead 14-13 in the first half, put on their brass knuckles and outscored Miami 42-6 the rest of the way. That Titans loss just looms larger and larger as now-injury-racked Miami now needs to beat (or tie) Buffalo next weekend to win the AFC East.
Steve Svekis, Sports Senior Content Editor
Things could get sticky. Miami, with its loss to the Ravens, now is a loss to the 10-6 Bills from plummeting to the No. 6 seed in the playoffs and having to play in Kansas City in the wild-card game. And, who knows about yet three more injuries, including to quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. Perhaps fortuitously though, Buffalo has looked underwhelming in its past two wins, by two over the lowly Chargers and six over the even-more-lowly Patriots.
