10-01-2018, 04:01 PM
(10-01-2018, 01:31 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Miami Dolphins .286 (6-15)Yeah , I hate playing Miami. It seems like it is always an ugly game and the Bengals usually look like they are sleepwalking. Maybe now that the Phins are 3-1 also and we have a chip on our shoulder, we can come out and take care of business.
San Francisco is next at .308.
Bengals beat Miami in November of 1977 to give them a 3-4 head-to-head record against the Fins. It would be 27 years before the Bengals would beat them again. The Dolphins won 9 in a row against the Bengals until we beat them 16-13 in 2004.
We have won 3 of the last six games, but they still give us trouble. We lost to them in both '12 and '13 when we were a playoff team and they did not even have a winning record. In '13 Nugent hit a FG to give us a 3 point lead with just 1:24 left, but Tannehill looked like Brady driving the team to a game tying FG on the last play. Then we lost on a safety in overtime.
None of this will probably have any effect on our ability to win Sunday, but it is interesting history.
The Bengals, in my view, are clearly better than Miami and a loss would completely deflate what they are trying to build.
