It's typically not all that fun to play an NFL team after its bye week. While you are coming off of a brutal Sunday and then just had to go through a week of practice, the last thing you want to do is battle a club that has had two weeks of rest.
The poor Miami Dolphins will have to do that twice in 2019.
Per Steven Ruiz of USA Today Sports, the Dolphins are one of six teams that will have to face teams coming off of their bye weeks twice this upcoming season, as they will have to take on the Buffalo Bills in Week 7 and the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 8.
Miami was already not considered to be a very good team going into this year, and now, it will be at a rather severe disadvantage twice because it will simply not be as rested as its opponent.
On top of that, those two games will happen in consecutive weeks, and both contests will be on the road.
My goodness, that is brutal.
Of course, it may all end up working out for the Dolphins in the end, because it really would behoove Miami—a team that is surely not going to make the playoffs—to end up with as strong of a draft pick as possible next year.
The Dolphins are coming off of a 2018 campaign in which they won just seven games. They have made the playoffs only once since 2009, and they have not won a playoff game since the 2000 season.
Follow Us
Subscribe