Buffalo @ Miami
1 2 3 4 FINAL
BUFFALO 7 3 0 0 10
MIAMI 3 10 7 10 30
MIAMI – In a
game that more closely resembled a drunken alley brawl than an NFL football
game, the Miami Dolphins (2-1, 1-0 AFC East) defeated their bitter rivals from
Buffalo (1-2, 0-2 AFC East) 30-10 in Miami.
Both teams
combined for six turnovers, a 22% third down conversion rate and frustrated
coaching staffs.
The Bills were
only able to muster 168 total yards on offense, with a paltry 40 rushing yards.
Aaron Rodgers received no help from his receiving corps with a combined 11
drops by his receivers.
“You’re paid
to catch the ball, then you catch the damn ball,” Bills coach Rex Ryan said.
“Dammit. This is a damn shame. I hate our wide receivers – all of them.”
Thomas Rawls
was the star for Miami with 142 yards rushing and a pair of touchdowns (one
coming on a 58 yard catch and run on a screen pass).
Having been
linked to an Al Jazeera report linking him to PED use in his past, Rawls had to
backpedal for the first time all day when cornered by reporters at his locker.
“Look, that
is crap,” Rawls said. “There is not truth there – they are just trying to get
readers.”
Rawls and
his Dolphin teammates stay home next week to take on Todd Bowles and the New
York Jets (1-2). The Bills head home to take on the New York Giants.
Philadelphia @ New York Jets
1 2 3 4 FINAL
PHILADELPHIA 0 0 0 0 0
NEW YORK 10 7 0 6 23
NEW YORK – The
New York Jets (1-2) were able to right the ship that is their 2015 season with
an emphatic wire-to-wire shut out victory against the Philadelphia Eagles (1-2)
Sunday in the Meadowlands 23-0.
The New York
defense gave up only 157 yards on a day when the game was never in doubt.
“This is the
type of defense we are going to play for the rest of the year,” Jets coach Todd
Bowles said. “Our owner called me in last week and asked me if we were a team
wanting to go 0-16. I told him we’d fix it all against Philadelphia.”
Cam Newton
efficiently led his offensive attack with a 20-23 day with no turnovers.
“I love our
ground game,” Newton said. “David (Johnson) killed it for real. He was
unstoppable.”
The Jets
travel to Miami to square off against the Dolphins (2-1) in New York’s first
AFC East game of the season.
