The Miami Dolphins were steamrolled in Northern California against the San Francisco 49ers this past Sunday. The team looked somewhat promising in the first half \u2014 moving the ball well against a stout Niners defense. They trailed by just 8 points at halftime \u2014 merely a single touchdown, plus two-point conversion away from making it a nail-biter. Unfortunately, the Dolphins came out flat in the second-half \u2014 both on offense and on defense \u2014 and were ultimately trounced by a score of 35-13.<\/p>\n
Choosing a Most Valuable \u2018Phin for Sunday\u2019s game against the 49ers was not an enviable task. There wasn\u2019t much \u201cgood\u201d to go around against San Francisco. But\u2026 that\u2019s just how this season is going to go, and this job must be done, so I will do it to the best of my ability.<\/p>\n
Plenty of people mentioned how Dolphins rookie linebacker Jacob Rodriguez should have won team MVP for his week one performance that saw the youngster notch 14 combined tackles against the Las Vegas Raiders. Well, on Sunday against San Francisco, Rodriguez followed up his stellar week one performance by adding another 8 combined tackles against the 49ers \u2014 good for second on the team behind safety Michael Taaffe.<\/p>\n
It is the second week in a row where a rookie has taken my weekly MVP award, which exemplifies what this season is all about for the Miami Dolphins. This young team needs to establish a solid foundation before it can get flashy. If Miami\u2019s rookies become major contributors this season \u2014 and it already looks like Rodriguez is going to be one of those top contributors \u2014 the Dolphins will be better in the future for it.<\/p>\n
Week One – WR Caleb Douglas<\/p>\n
Week Two – LB Jacob Rodriguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins were steamrolled in Northern California against the San Francisco 49ers this past Sunday. The team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1007764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,57982,2737,2087,6],"class_list":["post-1007763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-dolphins","tag-dolphins","tag-football","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-dolphins-rookie-updates","tag-miami-dolphins-roster","tag-miamidolphins","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117315211302984334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}