INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Staley knew it was going to take a whole sport for his Los Angeles Chargers squad to have an opportunity at beating the Miami Dolphins. In entrance of a prime-time viewers, the Bolts responded with one among their finest video games of the season.
Justin Herbert threw for 367 yards and a landing and a short-handed protection acquired one of the best of the Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa as Los Angeles beat Miami 23-17 on Sunday evening.
The Chargers (7-6) moved into place for the ultimate AFC playoff berth, forward of the New York Jets. Their maintain although can be short-lived if New England beats Arizona on Monday evening.
“It was an unimaginable crew win,” Staley stated. “Defensively we answered all of the challenges within the sport that we needed to face. Justin made a variety of successful performs and actually made good selections all through the sport.”
Herbert — the sixth total choose in 2020, one behind Tagovailoa — accomplished a career-high 39 passes on 51 makes an attempt for his twenty first 300-yard sport. He turned the primary NFL quarterback to throw for 13,000 yards in his first three seasons.
“There have been a variety of good issues from all three phases. The protection did an unimaginable job,” Herbert stated.
Tyreek Hill scored two touchdowns for the Dolphins, one among them on an unbelievable restoration of Jeff Wilson Jr.’s fumble that Hill took 57 yards to the tip zone. However Tagovailoa had his worst sport as an NFL starter, finishing 10 of 28 passes for 145 yards and a landing because the Dolphins (8-5) misplaced their second straight.
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“I’d say the defenses that we’ve performed have been enjoying precisely what we’ve anticipated them to play,” Tagovailoa stated. “It actually simply goes again to the small print of how we play our offense, and we’re not all dialed in with that.”
The Chargers held Miami to 219 yards regardless of not having security Derwin James, cornerback Bryce Callahan and defensive lineman Sebastian Joseph-Day due to accidents. The Dolphins got here in with the league’s top-ranked go offense.
“We knew he liked to throw contained in the hashes,” Chargers linebacker Drue Tranquill stated. “He was gonna attempt to get Tyreek and Jaylen (Waddle) in on these dagger routes, so we undoubtedly packed the center a bit of bit and compelled him to attempt to throw it outdoors.”
LA’s offense was buoyed by the return of Mike Williams, who had missed 4 of the final 5 video games with a excessive ankle sprain. Williams had six catches for 116 yards, together with a 10-yard landing whereas getting each toes in bounds close to the again of the tip zone to increase the Chargers’ result in 10-0 early within the second quarter.
“I felt fairly good. I simply wished to be obtainable for the entire sport for my crew, simply make performs and assist us come out with the win,” Williams stated.
Austin Ekeler, who completed with 104 scrimmage yards, had a 1-yard run off left sort out on fourth-and-goal with 18 seconds left within the quarter to increase the result in 17-7.
Cameron Dicker kicked three discipline objectives, together with one from 29-yards that gave the Chargers a 23-14 benefit with 2:40 remaining. Dicker’s kick capped a 17-play, 79-yard drive that took 8:39 off the clock. Keenan Allen had three catches for 32 yards on the drive and completed with 12 receptions for 92 yards.
“I simply actually felt like that took the air out of them a bit of bit. Then, for us to make it a two-possession sport, that was undoubtedly what we wished. We might have liked to have scored a landing there, however I actually felt like we managed the tempo there,” Staley stated.
Hill completed with 4 catches for 81 yards, together with a 60-yard TD within the third quarter on Tagovailoa’s finest throw of the evening. Chargers cornerback Michael Davis slipped in protection on the LA 40, permitting Hill to make a simple catch and saunter untouched to the tip zone to get Miami to 17-14.
Miami’s Jason Sanders booted a 55-yard discipline objective with 1:10 remaining, however Los Angeles recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock.
“That’s onerous to take. There’s a variety of funding, and it’s not adequate,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel stated. “I assumed the protection performed properly sufficient for us to win. There’s stuff we will clear up, for positive.”
SCOOP AND SCORE
The Dolphins had 5 web yards and one first down on their first three possessions earlier than lastly getting on the scoreboard, because of Hill.
On second-and-4 from the Miami 41, Wilson fumbled whereas tackled by Chargers security Alohi Gilman throughout a 6-yard acquire. There was a scramble for the unfastened ball till Hill picked it up, modified course and shortly sprinted to his proper and up the sideline.
Hill turned the one participant within the Tremendous Bowl period to attain TDs by way of receiving, dashing, kick return, punt return and fumble return.
RECORD BOOK
Hill broke Mark Clayton’s 38-year outdated Miami mark for receiving yards in a season. Hill has 1,460 yards on 100 catches, whereas Clayton had 1,389 yards on 96 catches in 1994.
Ekeler completed with eight receptions for 59 yards. His third catch moved him previous Kansas Metropolis’s Kimble Anders (369) for essentially the most by an undrafted operating again within the frequent draft period. Ekeler now has 375 receptions in his six-year profession.
INJURIES
Dolphins: Wilson suffered an ankle damage in the course of the second quarter. Security Eric Rowe had a hamstring damage within the third.
UP NEXT
Dolphins: At Buffalo subsequent Saturday evening.
Chargers: Host Tennessee subsequent Sunday.
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