Looking Back at the Miami Dolphins’ Worst Offensive Performance of this Decade
In the long history of the Miami Dolphins, they’ve been held to zero points in only 24 regular-season games. The lion’s share of those dud performances came in the 2000s and 2010s (a rough time for fans of the team), but one actually did happen somewhat recently, in this decade.
Back in September of 2021, the Dolphins matched up against a Buffalo Bills team that’s had their number in recent years, and they were on the wrong end of a shellacking.
Miami actually started Jacoby Brissett over a very young Tua Tagovailoa in that game, and the former looked like a deer in the headlights going up against Josh Allen. Probably no single player was more responsible for the Dolphins’ failure to put points on the board than Brissett, who threw zero touchdowns, threw one interception, and was sacked four times.
But the veteran quarterback was obviously not the only offensive player who was subpar for the Dolphins. They got little out of their running back room, as no single player ran for more than 25 yards (Myles Gaskin) for the game, and in total, the team ran for just 71 yards on 20 carries.
Miami’s 35-0 loss to Buffalo in its second game of the season marked a low point in a really rough first half of the season for head coach Brian Flores’ club. The Dolphins lost all but one of their first eight games of the campaign and dug themselves a hole that even a seven-game winning streak later on couldn’t pull them out of, as they wound up missing the playoffs with a 9-8 record.
Dolphins fans are surely hoping they won’t see another zero-point performance from their team anytime soon, but the possibility that it happens in 2026 can’t be ruled out. Miami has an inexperienced quarterback at the helm and a receiver corps around him that leaves plenty to be desired.