Getty QB Gardner Minshew II of the Jacksonville Jaguars
Gardner Minshew and the Jacksonville Jaguars (1-1) will host Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Miami Dolphins (0-2) at TIAA Bank Field Thursday night.
The game starts at 8:20 p.m. ET and will be televised on NFL Network. If you don’t have cable, here’s how to watch a live stream of the Dolphins vs Jaguars online for free:
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Dolphins vs Jaguars Preview
While neither team has tallied many wins over the last several seasons, this game actually has the potential to be a high-scoring shootout with loads of offense if last week’s results are any kind of indicator.
Both teams just got done almost taking out a current 2-0 team, and they each did so behind solid efforts at quarterback. The Dolphins are coming off a 31-28 loss to the Buffalo Bills in which Fitzpatrick went 31-47 for 328 yards and two touchdowns, while the Jags just gave the Tennessee Titans everything they could handle, falling 33-30.
Minshew went 30-45 for 339 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions in the loss. The picks were costly ones, but after just two games into his second season with the team, former Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell, who is now an analyst, thinks Minshew is the real deal.
Brunell, who holds just about every quarterback record in the team’s history, said this week that he has been beyond impressed with what he has seen from the second-year quarterback.
“He’s started 14 games and many times he looks like he’s been playing 14 seasons,” Brunell said about Minshew this week. “He carries himself so well. He has confidence. He threw an early interception against the Titans, and it doesn’t phase him. He’s one of those quarterbacks that understands that you got to have a short-term memory in this league.”
Jacksonville is tied for 10th in the NFL in scoring offense, averaging 28.5 points a game. Despite rumors the team planned to tank the 2020 season in order to draft Trevor Lawrence, Minshew and company aren’t having it.
“It’s week-by-week,” Minshew said. “We’re going to take what they give us. As long as we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot, we could be a really, really good offense.”
As for the Dolphins, they’re still a rebuilding unit, and coach Brian Flores seems to know his team is a work in progress.
“I think there have been some opportunities for us to make plays and we haven’t made them – a couple of dropped interceptions, lost edges, a couple of missed tackles,” Flores said. “These guys, they [the Jaguars] have some weapons. It’s a good, young team. They play tough, they play hard, so it will be a tough battle”
Miami is averaging 19.5 points a game, and they’re giving up 26, which won’t win you many games in this league. Miami has a trio of solid running backs, including Matt Breida and Jordan Howard, but they only totaled 99 yards on 22 attempts against the Bills. If the Fins call a few more running plays to help Fitzpatrick out, their offense could potentially find more of the balance it has been missing. They’ll be facing a Jags defense that has allowed 3.8 yards per carry so far this year, so they won’t have an easy time of it in this one.