On Sunday, the Miami Dolphins had a 31-27 victory over the Detroit Lions, and all seems well. However, I had a huge issue with the Dolphins regarding their penalties. The Dolphins had 7 penalties accepted on Sunday. That doesn’t tell the whole story. The Dolphins also had 9 other penalties, but they were declined. It’s a troubling trend with the Dolphins lately. Against the Minnesota Vikings a couple of weeks ago, the Dolphins had 11 penalties including 5 on the second drive of the game that cost them potential points. The lost opportunity came back to bite them at the end of the game, in which they lost 


It started on the first play of the game on Sunday. The Lions running back got a 10-yard run and went out of bounds, but Elandon Roberts stood over him and taunted him. On the first play of the game really?? Roberts is supposed to be one of our team captains and this is something a team captain shouldn’t be doing. It was a stupid penalty that cost the team 15 yards. Penalties like that drive me nuts. 


It gets worse because the Dolphins were flagged for 5 encroachment penalties on defense. 5, omg how hard is it to not line up over the football? I don’t remember the Dolphins getting flagged for 5 encroachments or false starts in Brian Flores 3 years as head coach. Those are mental mistakes that get you beat. 


I was worried about the Dolphins losing their discipline with Flores no longer being the coach because he was a tough disciplined coach, whose teams ranked at the bottom in penalties. I was worried they would lose their edge in that department with Mike McDaniel being the opposite type of coach. McDaniels has done a lot of good things as the head coach, but this is one area he must fix because if these penalties continue it’s going to come back to bite the team as they did against the Vikings. I can handle the physical penalties, like holding, and pass interference, but the mental penalties are tough to accept guys not being lined up right or jumping offsides. These things must get cleaned up. 

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