Sitting at 3-3 and heading into their bye week, Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores had a conundrum on his hands. With playoff-caliber teams in the Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals up next on their schedule, how the Dolphins fared over that next couple of weeks would be the inflection point of their season.
Even though quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was playing at a high enough level that very few would have ever thought about benching him — the veteran's 75.3 overall grade ranked 16th among all starters at the time — Flores made the difficult decision to do just that.