Neil Reynolds' Wraps Week 3
The NFL often rolls out phrases that are applied to the league's marketing efforts and a popular one a little while ago was 'Only in the NFL.' It pointed to the wild and unpredictable nature of what tends to become a total soap opera once the games kick off at 6pm each Sunday.
There were plenty of 'Only in the NFL moments last night as we watched the games unfold in the Sky Sports NFL studio. The Miami Dolphins gained more than 700 yards of offense and scored 70 points against the Denver Broncos, the Arizona Cardinals upset the red-hot Dallas Cowboys, Taylor Swift cheered Travis Kelce's every move as the Kansas City Chiefs and a New York Jets fan got so angry during his team's 15-10 loss to the New England Patriots that his false teeth flew out of his mouth.
It's not often you can put those words all together in the same sentence!
Let's start with the Dolphins on what was a truly historic night in South Florida. Miami came sprinting out of the starting gates – quite literally – and it quickly became evident that Denver had no answer for the speed of the Dolphins.
The numbers were startling. Miami racked up 726 yards of total offense – second-most in NFL history and just nine yards shy of the all-time record set by the Los Angeles Rams in 1951. Miami's 70 points was the second-most in NFL history and they could have added more but Mike McDaniel opted to take a knee at the end of the game rather than kick a field goal that would have given Miami the most points ever scored in an NFL contest.
That said, this was personal for McDaniel. The former Broncos fan was a ball-boy for Denver as a teenager but he never got an interview for their head coach position in 2022. Add in the fact that Miami reportedly pursued Sean Payton as
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