If you don’t think trench play matters in this era of pass-happy football let this 20-13 loss teach you an important lesson. Football is won and lost in the trenches most weeks, and the Dolphins have struggled at the line of scrimmage a lot this season. The Broncos game plan was to target Miami’s underbelly, and that strategy worked. Expect other teams to copy this approach, working to bully the Dolphins at the line of scrimmage.
The Dolphins finally hit a pothole on their push for the playoffs, losing to an underdog Broncos team who brutishly controlled both sides of the line of scrimmage.