Week 4 for the Miami Dolphins felt a lot like the first quarter of the 2020 season for the Dolphins as a whole. There was plenty of improvements from last year’s lethargic team in the early portions of the 2019 season — but overall this team’s youth and inexperience proved to be too much as the Dolphins butted heads with a superior opponent.
That’s perhaps the most frustrating piece of the puzzle for the Dolphins. This is a team that has had to play two legitimate MVP candidates in the first four games of the season in Josh Allen and Russell Wilson — both of whom have quarterbacked their teams to undefeated 4-0 records. And in Miami’s other loss, the Dolphins entered the season against the greatest coach of all-time,. who enjoyed unveiling a brand new offense for the first time in twenty years. The schedule makers weren’t overly kind to a Dolphins team that needed some generosity if they were going to hit the ground running this season.
But who deserves the bulk of the blame for Miami’s most recent loss, a 31-23 decision against the Seattle Seahawks? Here are our five biggest candidates:
QB Ryan Fitzpatrick
This was a full-on “Fitztragic” meltdown performance for Ryan Fitzpatrick. One week after he was incredibly in rhythm and seemingly couldn’t miss, Fitzpatrick seemingly couldn’t get anything right against Seattle’s zone coverages early on. While he did endure pressure on both of his two interceptions that seemed to influence his throws, Fitzpatrick threw at least two additional would-be interceptions that were simply just dropped by the defense.
His decision making was poor and he seemed to predesignate his reads on a handful of occasions instead of working progressions to find a more available receiver to target with the football.