A win is a win is a win. I’ve long said division games are different animals and any road win in Miami is a “take it” and ask no questions scenario.
TEAM TALK
Post Game Notes, Patriots-Dolphins: Patriots improve to 3-0 in the AFC East, win 3rd-straight vs. Miami; All five of Kyle Williams’ TDs have gone for over 30 yards; Rhamondre Stevenson becomes the 4th Patriots player to reach 4,000 yards; More.
Gamebook: Full Patriots at Dolphins stats.
Evan Lazar’s Post Game Observations: 8 takeaways from the comeback
win over the Dolphins. The Patriots woke up from a first-half nap to pull away in the second half for a 24-19 victory at a rainy Hard Rock Stadium.
Post Game Quotes: Patriots and Dolphins.
Post Game Pressers: Mike Vrabel – Drake Maye – Rhamondre Stevenson, Kevin Byard III, DeMario Douglas, Christian Gonzalez, Cory Durden, and Kyle Williams.
Patriots locker room celebration. (1 min. video)
Highlights: Patriots at Dolphins. (14 min. video)
Patriots Postgame Show: Breaking down the win over the Dolphins. “You take a win any way you can get it down in Miami.” (1 hour, 42 min.)
LOCAL LINKS
Mark Daniels gives us 5 Patriots takeaways as Drake Maye pulls off second-half comeback in Sunday’s win. 1. Patriots coughed it up.
Ethan Hurwitz shares 6 instant takeaways from the soaking-wet 24-19 win over the Dolphins. 1. Early offense struggles after Hunter Henry’s injury.
Alex Barth posts 5 takeaways after the Patriots hang on to win in slog-fest. 1. Turning things around.
Zac Cox details how Drake Maye guided the depleted Patriots offense to gritty win vs. the Phins.
Andrew Callahan lays out how the Patriots, again, are lucky to have Drake Maye.
Karen Guregian wonders if Drake Maye’s greatness is enough to carry the Patriots the rest of the way.
Mark Daniels notes Drake Maye makes Patriots feel ‘unstoppable’ even when everything goes wrong
Karen Guregian writes how without A.J. Brown, Romeo Doubs, and Mack Hollins – and losing Hunter Henry in the second quarter, it pretty much fell on Drake Maye to make it happen on offense in Miami.
Doug Kyed points out the unlikely wide receiver heroes who made big plays on Sunday.
Doug Kyed spotlights unheralded defender Corey Durden who balled out with his best game of season.
Doug Kyed picks through the best and worst to see what we learned from the Pats comeback win.
Zac Ventola points out 4 winners, 2 losers from yesterday.
Peter Gigliotti looks at the Good, Bad, and Ugly from the Week 8 victory.
Alex Barth tells us who got a game ball after the Patriots’ win in Miami.
Alex Barth reports the Patriots restructured TE Hunter Henry’s contract and wonders what will they do with the cap space they created.
NATIONAL NEWS
Jason Owens (Yahoo! Sports) Patriots avert disaster vs. Dolphins with big second half from Drake Maye to keep pace in stacked AFC playoff race. Patriots score 24 straight after slow start.
NFL Nation (ESPN) Week 8: Big takeaways, questions and spin from Sunday’s games. Can the Patriots sustain playing this way? More.
Albert Breer (SI) Week 8 Takeaways: Why these Bengals are different than previous teams; Plus, Pittsburgh’s “refreshing” openness, the Bucs’ emergence and more. “Credit to Drake Maye for pulling a messy win out of the fire, with a MASH unit around him. …”
Around the NFL (NFL) Week 8: What we learned from Sunday’s games. “Drake Maye completed 16 of 20 passes for 199 yards and two TDs against the Dolphins in Week 8. Maye was perfect on throws of more than 10 air yards, completing all five attempts for 149 yards and both of his touchdowns. Since Week 4, Maye has thrown six deep (20+ air yards) touchdown passes without an interception, the most deep touchdowns in the NFL over that span.” /Click for more commentary.
John Breech (CBS Sports) Week 8 grades for every team. Patriots C+, Dolphins C. “…Divisional games can be unpredictable, and they’re never easy to win, but the Pats came away with the victory here, and that’s all that matters.” More.
Gilberto Manzano (SI) Week 8 Lessons: One team that should consider trading a first-round pick for Jonathan Taylor; Plus, the Chargers should hold the next fire sale, and we take a closer look at the Raiders’ backfield.
Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) Week 8 Winners and Losers. Winner: Drake Maye. “Good quarterbacks find a way and Maye bailed out the Patriots. New England came back to win 24-19, with Maye making plays and the defense clamping down. … Maye was under constant pressure and his offense was going nowhere. But he figured things out in time to avoid a bad loss.“
Carter Bahns (CBS Sports) Week 8 winners and losers. Cowboys suffer epic collapse, Joe Burrow delivers historic heroics.
Mike Kadlick and Eva Geitheim (SI) Week 8 Winners and Losers: Cowboys’ embarrassing loss to Cardinals sinks playoff hopes; Plus, Broncos mounted a comeback over the Chiefs and Joe Burrow set new career-high.
Matt Verderame (SI) Week 8 Good, Bad and Ugly: Why the Jaguars could be AFC’s best; Plus, Tampa Bay defeated Atlanta without completing a pass, Chiefs fail miserably, and Lamar Jackson sustained a thumb injury.
Dan Graziano (ESPN) Judging overreactions to Week 8: Days numbered for Schottenheimer, Jackson?
Zachary Pereles (CBS Sports) Week 8 overreactions: Time for Vikings to bench Kyler Murray? Colts should fire Steichen? Andy Reid blew it.
VIEW FROM MIAMI
Eric J. Wallace (Palm Beach Post) Dolphins suffer another second-half collapse in loss to Patriots.
Barry Jackson (Miami Herald) Thoughts after a blown lead and 1-6 start: Why Dolphins rebuild seems even harder.
C. Isaiah Smalls II (Miami Herald) Dolphins blow lead as Drake Maye, Patriots storm back; More takeaways.
James Trefry (Dolphins Wire) 5 takeaways from Dolphins’ Week 8 loss to division rival. 1. Drake Maye led a depleted Patriots offense to a second-half comeback win.
Marek Brave (The Phinsider) Patriots vs Dolphins immediate reactions, winners and losers as Miami falls to division rivals.
Joe Schad (Palm Beach Post) Ollie Gordon’s costly penalty fuels Dolphins’ collapse vs. Patriots.
Marek Brave (The Phinsider) The Good, Bad & Ugly from the Miami Dolphins Week 8 loss. UGLY: Ollie Gordon II has ugly display on Miami’s sideline following penalty.
Mike Masala (Dolphins Wire) Studs and duds from Dolphins’ 24-19 loss to Patriots. Dud: Offensive line.
