3 things learned in the Miami Dolphins soul crushing loss to the Chargers

The Miami Dolphin’s offense is a Swiss Army Knife if that Swiss Army Knife only had the corkscrew in it.

Sort of piggybacking off the last slide but the Miami Dolphins got figured out last night. They got figured out, early, and Mike McDaniel had no Plan B.

McDaniel can’t even go to his bread and butter, the running game, to help the offense. That isn’t working much either and now with Jeff Wilson Jr. getting injured, I wouldn’t expect the run game to suddenly get good.

The Chargers took away the middle of the field and dared Tua to throw anywhere else. Well, McDaniel didn’t dial anything up to the flats or outside the numbers unless it was a deep shot.

On top of that, it appears that Jaylen Waddle is a mere afterthought in this offense. I get that Tyreek Hill is the fastest man in the multi-verse, but man alive Waddle is a stud as well that deserves to have the ball come his way more often than it did last night.

This is where all the talk of being a genius and stuff like that is supposed to come into play. This is the time when that big brain figures out what else can this offense do with the personnel they have.

I really hope that McDaniel isn’t hiding Tua’s lack of arm strength with all these over-the-middle throws. I don’t want to hear all the stats about how Tua leads in YPA and all that. He doesn’t possess a big-time strong arm and that’s alright to a point. That point is now because if teams are going to be stationing that many defenders in the middle of the field and the running game is going to be non-existent, then throwing to other parts of the field has to happen.