It was true 5-on-5 basketball.
Author: Michael
After listing receiver Allen Lazard as a healthy scratch ahead of Week 12, Jets coach Robert Saleh offered a stern message on the veteran’s standing with the team following Friday’s 34–13 loss to the Dolphins.
A slow start to the 2023 season resulted in a shocking decision by Saleh to include Lazard, who signed a four-year deal worth $44 million in the offseason, among New York’s seven inactives prior the game. When asked for an explanation post-game, Saleh proceeded to put the six-year veteran on notice about his lackluster play thus far.
Let’s call a spade a spade: the Dolphins‘ 34-13 win over the Jets Friday was hardly compelling television.
New York kept it close in the first half, and it briefly seemed like the game would go halftime with Miami up 10-6. However, Dolphins safety Jevon Holland changed the tenor of the game by picking off a Hail Mary attempt and taking it the distance. Most of the second half was academic as Miami moved to 8-3 on the season.
Miami running back Raheem Mostert blasted the turf at MetLife Stadium, after teammate Jaelan Phillips went down with a non-contact Achilles injury during the third quarter of the Dolphins’s 34-13 win over the Jets on Black Friday.
After Aaron Rodgers went down in Week 1 of the season, many players have voiced displeasure with the safety of the field due to a rash of injuries sustained playing on the surface.
On the play in question, Phillips was trying to get around Max Mitchell in an attempt to rush quarterback Tim Boyle.
It was a horrible, exasperating, bloody, season-threatening game that the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins just played.
It was fittingly played on Black Friday because there was a whole lot of darkness and woe coming out of this one.
Start with the biggest issue:
Dolphins linebacker Jaelan Phillips suffered a calf injury in the fourth quarter that threatens his status for the remainder of the season. Phillips seemed to pop something in his right calf as he rushed the passer.
Phillips was not touched but went down in a heap.
Follow two rivalry games with CFP implications on Friday: Bo Nix has 10-1 Oregon ahead of Oregon State and No. 7 Texas (10-1) leads Texas Tech.
The Dolphins harassed Boyle throughout the day, sacking him seven times and intercepting him twice.
Dolphins linebacker Jaelan Phillips suffered a right Achilles injury late in Friday’s 34-13 win over the Jets, casting a shadow over Miami’s dominating victory.
Thanksgiving week in America’s two most visible college sports tends to be night and day in terms of its differences. In football, it’s the season’s climactic week, loaded with visceral hatred and occasional fisticuffs. In basketball, it’s the laid-back, good vibes week of Maui, Atlantis and other tropical tournaments.
Two teams that certainly did not get that memo are Jacksonville and Robert Morris, whose Friday afternoon matchup produced the strangest game of the Division I men’s season so far.
The highlight of the day was a 99-yard pick six by Jevon Holland while the game still looked in doubt. Miami pulled out the win and the Jets’ skid hit four games in a row.