Trent Sherfield’s TD Should Not Have Counted

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The wildest play of the NFL’s 272nd and last recreation ought to have been known as again by penalty.

That’s in keeping with Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, who met with reporters Wednesday for the primary time since his crew misplaced the division championship to the Buffalo Payments.

The distinction in that recreation was a landing. The Payments bought a first-half landing on a catch by Trent Sherfield on a deflected go that Fangio insists ought to have been negated by the officers.

“That’s a little bit little bit of buzzard’s luck,” Fangio stated. “Eli [Apple] might’ve stored competing as a result of as soon as the ball is tipped, there’s no extra go interference. However it occurs that quick. They’d linemen downfield on the play clearly. I imply manner downfield as a result of it was an RPO. Sadly, the officers didn’t catch it.”

Trent Sherfield stored his toes in! 😱

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Miami Dolphins’ Vic Fangio Readies for Chiefs

The Dolphins will want these sorts of breaks to go their manner, and never towards them, to beat the defending Tremendous Bowl champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at their very own house Saturday evening.

Whereas the Chiefs’ offense isn’t the identical because it’s been in years previous, they nonetheless have Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.

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For a Dolphins protection pulling go rushers of their mid-30s off the road Tuesday to play Saturday, it’s a tricky problem.

However there’s some purpose for optimism. They only compelled three Josh Allen turnovers and held the Payments to 14 factors.

“We hung in there,” Fangio stated. “We bought some takeaways within the pink zone. We gave up a number of yards, however we didn’t quit the factors. They’re an awesome offense. They’re going to maneuver the ball on all people. So it’s important to provide you with some performs, and our guys battled, and we bought some performs. It was below duress. They’d a number of performs. Our guys simply performed actually good general.”

Is that the Dolphins’ blueprint for Saturday?

“You hope. We’d wish to not allow them to drive it so long as Buffalo did, however they’re clearly very able to that with Mahomes at quarterback and the expertise they’ve on offense. I imply, I believe if we maintain them to 14, that might be good.”

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