Miami Dolphins Adam Gase should have seen Sunday’s game coming

The Miami Dolphins didn’t just lose to the New England Patriots on Sunday they got beat badly. It was the worse loss in the Adam Gase era and he should have seen it coming.

Following the game Miami Dolphins head coach Adam Gase said “I didn’t see that coming” following the loss to the Patriots in Foxboro. The problem is he should have. He should have been prepared for anything instead he didn’t have any answers.

The Miami Dolphins offense was anemic. There is no way around it. The running game for the second week in a row was non-existent and the passing game was atrocious. Ryan Tannehill threw for 100 yards and it doesn’t matter what his QBR was following the game.

To say that Tannehill was the problem would be wrong. There was simply too many things that were wrong but Tannehill didn’t help either. His throws were off the mark and simply put he had a bad game. Quarterbacks do that from time to time. When coupled with everything else, it simply wasn’t meant to be.

The problems lie everywhere on the field. The Patriots played the majority of the game with seven defensive backs effectively eliminating the deep ball and the mid-range routes. Miami, built with offensive speed had nothing to give the Patriots to make them change their defensive strategy. That is on Adam Gase.

Gase’s play calling has been questioned throughout his time with Miami but on Sunday he had no answers. Everything he tried didn’t work. Was this bad game-planning or poor adjustments? Probably a little bit of both.

Injuries and personnel didn’t help. Miami lost starting center Daniel Kilgore to an arm injury and his replacement Travis Swanson made his presence known with his first snap going through Tannehill and to the Patriots setting up their rivals with excellent field position.

The Dolphins were without Ja’Wuan James later in the game. They had to use Sam Young and Ted Larsen who is filling in this season for the injured Josh Sitton didn’t help. DeVante Parker missed yet another game as well.

Still, Gase’s play calling was not conducive to beating the Patriots. Miami facing a four man defensive front almost the entire game could not get the running game on track from start to finish. Defensively the Dolphins because of the ineptitude of the offense couldn’t keep up.

Miami is not geared towards winning a shootout. We have seen this time and again and in New England the Patriots rarely lose. Adam Gase should have known that and he should have adjusted when it became clear that the Patriots were going to take away certain aspects of his game plan. He didn’t. And if he did then the execution on the field was poor.

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Next week the Dolphins play the 3-1 Cincinnati Bengals whose offense is very good and their defense isn’t bad either. It will be a tough road game but if the Dolphins hope to win that on the road they will need Adam Gase to prepare the team better and more importantly be prepared to make the in-game adjustments that give his offense opportunity to move the ball.

Nothing worked for Miami on Sunday. They were consistently in third and long situations and had no plans for getting out of it because the execution wasn’t there. Gase needs to find answers as he can’t rely on trickery to move the chains. It’s unclear who these Miami Dolphins are even after the first 3-0 start since 2013.

Adam Gase must find a way to get the running game established. He has two very good running backs but his desire to split the carries doesn’t allow either one to build momentum but then again, the offensive line is doing them no favors with poor blocking.

If the Dolphins are going to make a potential playoff run or challenge for the division, Adam Gase needs to figure out his offense. This was supposed to be an exciting offensive system and Gase himself said that he was not showing all of his deck during pre-season. Four games into the season and one brutal loss it has to be asked, what exacty is he holding back? So far, a couple of shuttle passes isn’t going to cut it.