De’Von Achane could hear the crowd at Hard Rock Stadium chanting “Three more points!” on Miami’s final drive. The Dolphins had the ball inside the Denver Broncos’ 30 with less than a minute left, and they were three points shy of breaking the NFL’s single-game scoring record. Instead of sending out his kicker for a potential record-setting field goal, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel elected to take a knee and run out the clock.
As another weekend of NFL football wraps up, Jason Whitlock evaluates which teams and players shined and which failed to perform. “The biggest star of the weekend,” he says, was “Tua Tagovailoa,” the Miami Dolphins quarterback who “absolutely lit it up” in the game against the New England Patriots. .
So he knows exactly what he's looking at when he coaches his guys,” Tagovailoa said. Nothing new under the sun for that guy. So we've got to come out, we've got to be prepared.