Dolphins held players-only meeting after blowout

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Miami Dolphins players held a players-only gathering connected the team's disconnected time Tuesday successful the aftermath of their 33-8 loss to the Indianapolis Colts successful Week 1, to marque definite they remained "on the aforesaid page."

The Dolphins allowed Indianapolis to people connected each 7 of its violative possessions Sunday, portion their 211 yards of discourtesy marked their lowest full nether manager Mike McDaniel successful a crippled which backmost Tua Tagovailoa starts.

Sunday marked 1 of Tagovailoa's worst games, arsenic well; helium completed 14-of-23 passes for 114 yards and a touchdown, but threw 2 interceptions and mislaid a fumble, portion besides posting the worst full-game passer standing of his career.

After the game, the Dolphins' backmost said helium was looking guardant to seeing which of his teammates showed up Tuesday to ticker film. He told reporters Wednesday that helium was blessed with the turnout.

"I got the discourtesy unneurotic and we had a gathering astir things that we wanted to bash to bent our hats connected this week, points of accent and however we privation to spell astir it this week," helium said Wednesday. "We got each of that communicated to those guys, truthful that's what we've got.

"I thought that that was the chill thing, is that was their process going into Week 1; win, lose, you got to spot a batch of the aforesaid guys backmost successful the movie room, backmost successful the gathering rooms and I thought that was a chill thing."

Last season, the Dolphins mislaid six of their archetypal 8 games and contempt a precocious push, finished 8-9 and 2 games retired of the AFC playoff picture.

Linebacker Jordyn Brooks said that Tuesday's gathering was a mode to support things from getting retired of manus aft a perchance demoralizing loss.

"Losing the mode we did tin beryllium discouraging. Outside sound - radical talking, household talking, everybody talking," helium said. "(The gathering was) conscionable benignant of making definite that everybody's together. When you suffer similar that, it's casual for radical to get discouraged, commencement looking, questioning possibly yourself oregon others. So making definite that we each locked backmost in, making definite that the content is inactive there.

"You suffer belief, you don't person nothing. So making definite that everybody's inactive connected the aforesaid leafage and travel backmost adjacent week, stronger."

Miami has a captious three-game agelong coming, each against part opponents. It hosts the New England Patriots connected Sunday earlier traveling to Buffalo connected a abbreviated week to play the Bills connected Thursday Night Football successful Week 3. The Dolphins past get a afloat 10 days to remainder and hole for a Week 4 matchup with the New York Jets connected Monday Night Football.