The Miami Dolphins are home for the final sprint to their (probable) season finale at Hard Rock Stadium. Miami has spent the last two weeks on the road against the Denver Broncos and the New York Jets and will now kick off a 3-game home stand this weekend against the Cincinnati Bengals. Miami has just three home games remaining this season barring any potential home playoff games courtesy of an AFC East division title this winter — so this will be an important stretch of play for Miami.
Getting nearly a month at home will be a nice break for the Dolphins and the team has drawn the easiest of their three opponents first: they’ll square off with the Bengals tomorrow afternoon and hope to move their record on the season to 8-4. What will the forecast be? Is there any chance that bad weather helps to even the playing field?
Location: Hard Rock Stadium — Miami Gardens, FL
Kickoff: 1:00 PM EST
- High Temperature: 79 degrees
- Percent rain: 15%
- Humidity: 66%
- Wind: 6 mph
Thankfully, sloppy play in this showcase can only be blamed on the Dolphins themselves, which means Miami’s formula of playing disciplined ball and not getting beat by mental errors and turnovers can be entirely in their control. And while the Dolphins don’t know who is going to be behind center to this point (or maybe they do, and they’re just not telling anyone), it won’t really move Miami’s forecast for this game all that much. With fairly clear skies overhead, Miami’s path to victory will look much like the rest of their season:
- Pass to set up the run
- Play smothering defense
- Don’t make mental mistakes
- Create turnovers
The Dolphins shouldn’t have to worry about taking the air out of the ball due to the rain, so consider their preferred method of winning football games fully on the table tomorrow against the Bengals.