If you’re going to lose games, you want it to be against a really good team and you want it to hurt,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said. “It’s an important building block along your progression for the season. Instead, they got knocked around by a defense wearing throwback uniforms who looked and played like Buddy Ryan’s ferocious group led by Reggie White and Jerome Brown. The Dolphins (5-2) had a chance to showcase the league’s most prolific offense in a prime-time matchup in Philadelphia. Three of the NFL’s most-hyped teams had a rough Sunday. Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions failed their biggest test against a stingy defense. Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills gave Bill Belichick a week off from job speculation. Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill and the Miami Dolphins’ high-octane offense were shut down by a gang of kelly green Eagles.
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