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Galant · Nov 14, 2014

It's almost entirely about the defense but hey, not a bad write up.

Dolphins Riding Defense into Playoff Contention After Big Victory over Bills

If defense wins championships, it's getting harder and harder to count out the Miami Dolphins. With a 22-9 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Thursday Night Football, the national TV audience was reminded how nasty some of the pieces of the Dolphins defense can be. It isn't just that they held the Bills to nine points, but it was also the relentless pass rush that reduced the Bills offense to a quivering heap.
Understand that this was a must-win game for the Dolphins. According to Mike Beuoy and Reuben Fischer-Baum of FiveThirtyEight.com, "A win by Miami would boost its playoff chances to 50 percent, and Buffalo’s would drop to just 4 percent. But a Bills upset would give them a slight advantage over the Dolphins and keep the AFC playoff race more interesting."
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The linchpin of the entire unit is defensive end Cameron Wake. Though he's been overshadowed by players like Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller and Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, Wake has been one of the best players in the league for some time.
Over at Pro Football Focus (subscription required), Wake is the top 4-3 defensive end in the NFL by a wide margin, even though he's not the league's sack leader. Much of what Wake does—the double-teams he draws, the way offensive coordinators have to account for him, the opponent's inability to run plays completely away from him—shows up on the field far more than on the stat sheet.
Perhaps just as impressively, Wake's hits may not always count on the stat sheet as a sack, but he lays the wood as well as anyone in the NFL. And the physical toll that backs and quarterbacks feel after he's introduced himself a few times on the field have a cumulative effect over the course of games.
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MrClean · Nov 14, 2014

I'm just glad he spelled linchpin correctly. I get so tired of seeing it spelled lynchpin.

Itsdahumidity · Nov 14, 2014

86 yards allowed in any half is very impressive! Keep it up guys.

djphinfan · Nov 14, 2014

Best defense ever..in my years.

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