Dolphins-Bills preview: Is Miami in deep trouble?

Yahoo Sports host Andrew Siciliano, senior NFL writer Frank Schwab and senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein preview Thursday night’s AFC East clash – with Buffalo looking to remain undefeated and Miami trying to avoid an embarrassing loss that could spark some serious changes for the organization. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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So it’s the Dolphins and the Bills for TNF to open it up in Buffalo.

Miami is 0-2 and they’re desperate, and Buffalo is 2-0.

What Tua said about Josh Allen was basically, and I’m paraphrasing here, he does things that I can’t do, like physically, I can’t be Josh Allen.

Like he is so special, and very rarely do you hear one say something like that when comparing themselves to a peer.

Like there’s oh yeah, like he’s really good, I mean all the guy.

Like much respect, but to actually say, like, I can’t do those things.

Like I, I’m just almost like I’m playing a different sport.

It kind of, it kind of put into focus for me right now where the Dolphins are.

Like they’re 0 and 2 and they need this and they know that if they lose this and it, and they lose badly, Frank, and they go to 0 and 3 on national TV losing the division rival again with the Bills coming up, it is getting late early in Miami.

Yeah, absolutely.

I, I’m reminded of the Charles Barkley quote when the ’92 Dream Team was happening.

I don’t know who Angola is, but Angola is in trouble, and the Dolphins in this game are in trouble.

Like the Dolphins have the worst secondary in the league and they’re facing Josh Allen.

Good luck, guys.

And look, you guys know, I think you know by now that I dabble in the betting world too, and I look at it this way, the line is 12.5.

I think it’s the largest line of the season so far, Ravens-Browns was probably 12.5 too.

If the Miami Dolphins don’t cover that spread, and I know Stephen Ross isn’t exactly sitting around saying, are we gonna cover or not, but you could just imagine it.

If the Dolphins lose by two or more touchdowns in this game, and Stephen Ross has some extra days to think about all this.

I don’t know if I’d be answering my phone if I’m Mike McDaniel.

I hate to say it that way.

We’ve talked very flippantly about Mike McDaniel’s future, and I hate doing that because he’s a really good guy, and I’ve liked him as a coach.

But if you’re 0 and 3, your season’s pretty much done.

You have maybe one of the most talentless teams in football right now.

That roster is bad.

You know, it’s not going to get any better.

I don’t know.

Yeah, they go out and lose 42 to 20 or something like that, which is perfectly on the table.

That’s what the Bills just did to the Jets.

Yeah, this, Mike McDaniel at that point would be on borrowed time, I think.

Yeah, and I think also you have to ask yourself what’s actually reasonable against the Bills, because we saw a Jets team that just played the Bills, and before that, they played the Steelers and the Jets looked good.

Justin Fields, the running offense, everything was working.

The defense, they got four sacks on Aaron Rodgers, and all of a sudden the Bills come to town and the Jets can’t do much of anything.

Well, that’s a team that had some success against the team.

I just feel like with this Dolphins team, you really have to ask yourself and I mean, if I’m Steven Ross, I’m not even necessarily saying, like, if you lose, that’s anything.

I almost, I’m like, I just want to see something.

I want to see the fight from the team.

I want to see that you can have a little bit of offense against the Bills, because I think it’s almost unrealistic, and maybe this is crazy to expect the Miami Dolphins’ defense to be able to slow Josh Allen when you’ve seen what he’s able to do and what he’s able to do with that offense.

And so I think you need to be realistic.

I will say, though, the one thing the Dolphins have going for them is sometimes Thursday games are just weird.

And I don’t mean from an injury standpoint, although they’re obnoxious from an injury standpoint, and that’s a whole other health and safety conversation we should have.

But I do think that sometimes just like the exact opposite of what we’re expecting happens when they’re not playing on Sundays.

Dolphins-Bills preview: Is Miami in deep trouble?

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