Hill had six receptions for 122 yards and one touchdown on the first half. Hill kept it going and didn’t stop until he had nine receptions for 157 yards and one touchdown. On the third play of the game Tagovailoa went over the middle to hit wide receiver Tyreek Hill on a 54-yard touchdown reception. For the season he’s 72 of 101 for 1,024 yards, eight touchdowns and two interceptions. He’s only been sacked once in three games. In a nod to the offensive line, Tagovailoa wasn’t sacked Sunday for the second game. Tagovailoa completed 12 consecutive passes at one point last season. Tagovailoa completed his first 16 passes before ending 23 of 26 for 309 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, and a 155.8 passer rating (158.3 is perfect). This was absolutely amazing, and a great statement by the Mike McDaniel-Tua Tagovailoa offense. You don’t have to be a history major from Yale to know that covers a lot of good history.The overall record is 73 by Chicago, but that was in the playoffs in the 1940 championship game. Or to look at it the proper way: The Dolphins scored more than any Marino team, any Super Bowl Dolphins team or any NFL team had in the past 57 years. There was McDaniel, explaining why he didn’t go for that field goal to score the most point in NFL history. Three games in, the Dolphins are 3-0 and showing they can not only play into the deepest part of this NFL season but be the kind of team that makes history. His taking four game balls for touchdowns scored had to be another record. But he ran for 203 yards on Sunday, which was - more history - a franchise record for a rookie. One by one, Dolphins players said they’d never been in a game like this. But when you score a number that’s a speed limit, the day’s about the offense. It gave up 13 points Sunday (a late touchdown Denver kickoff return). “I think that part of what we try to do with the Dolphins is work relentlessly hard, but in that process try to have fun doing it,” he said. It’s part of the culture he’s brought that runs counter to NFL norms. I’ve used this terse, traditional football word to describe McDaniel’s Dolphins this year: Whee! It applied again Sunday. “They’re like, ‘You’ve got to do that in a game. “When I did it in practice, everyone thought that was super cool, especially with the helmet cam you can watch it again,” Tagovailoa said. Tagovailoa gave a no-look shovel pass to De’Vone Achane that attending Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra sees in his game. The touchdown that summed up what’s at work right now was a measly 4 yards. One 54-yard touchdown came on the third play of the game when receiver Tyreek Hill was somehow wide open just as he often is. Tagovailoa was near-perfect again completing 23-of-26 passes for 309 yards and four touchdowns. Instead of Payton and Tom Brady they got McDaniel who resurrected quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. Maybe some grand karmic bin helped there, too. “Obviously that was embarrassing and tough to watch,’’ Denver coach Sean Payton said to start his post-game talk.ĭo you know how many decades of Dolphins coaches could have said that? For that matter, Payton could have been the Dolphins coach saying that now if things had worked out how team ownership and front officials plotted. *Only NFL team to ever score five rushing and five passing touchdowns in a game. *Most rushing yards (350) in franchise history *Most points in a game in the franchise’s 57-year history (passing 55 by the ’77 Dolphins) No one cared about some NFL record everyone had to google during Sunday’s fourth quarter to find. Sunday underlined what the first two weeks of the season suggested. The only second-guess here is why hotel reservations aren’t being safeguarded for Las Vegas in February for the Super Bowl. “I will be fine getting second-guessed by turning down NFL records,” McDaniel said. Should the scoreboard convert to Celsius? Some fans booed, but in a mock-boo kind of way, because everyone was intoxicated simply by seeing 70 points scored. “We try to keep good karma with the Miami Dolphins.”
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