With a 61-seater goal from Tyler Bass, with five seconds left in the final, the Buffalo Bills (7-2) ended the Dolphins’s victory dreams (2-6) on Sunday afternoon at Highmark Stadium at Orchard Park, New York.
It was moment of huge suspense because Bass had missed an extra point and there were doubts that from such a long distance he could achieve what he had not been able to do from close range. He did it and sealed the fate of the meeting.
The Miami team, which has not won at this stadium since 2016, played a great game and the proof of it was that only in the last moment was defined 30-27 in favor of the Bills.
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“We have shown progress,” our Florida coach Mike McDaniel said. But it hasn’t been enough. DeoVon Achane was the great figure of the Dolphins by air and earth. He scored touchdowns, ran for 63 yards and received 58.
Tyreek Hill was again influential with 80 yards receiving and Jaylen Waddle scored a touchdown.
Tua Tagovailoa repeated as the great conductor who everyone expects him to be. He always made the right decision and all afternoon made the Bills’s defense suffer.
Josh Allen, meanwhile, hit 25 of 39 passes for 235 yards and three touchdowns. There was a moment that defined the game and made the fans who filled the stadium tremble because it announced that the Dolphins would not be easy prey.
An interception by Jalen Ramsey at the start of the second period opened up great hopes for the Miami team, in the sense that in defense it was going to be a hard bone to gnaw.
The cornerback intercepted Allen at 3:15 minutes of the third period as Buffalo quarterback Bill tried to give Keon Coleman a touchdown pass to Keon Coleman in the scoring zone.
What happened next was a demonstration that the Surflorida attack was willing to give its own concert.
From there, from yard three, the Miami squad started a long offensive of 14 plays, 97 yards, and 8:21 minutes to complete it with a 14-yard touchdown pass from Tua to Achane.
The importance of the move was that the Dolphins showed their ground attack was unstoppable for the Buffalo Bills.
Raheem Moster was a key piece with repeated actions that could not be contained by the locals. Tua, for his part, had a great administration of the offensive and in this way, Miami made clear the Bills’s vulnerabilities.
Precisely, the Bills had opened the scoring at 8:26 minutes of the first quarter with a 40-teard field goal from Bass.
The South Floridan squad responded in the same way to tie the game 3-3 at 13:37 minutes of the first period with a 39-hole field goal from Jason Sanders.
At the end of the first half, the Bills were able to discount the lead 10-6 with a 49-yard field goal from Bass.
However, the Dolphins’s performance exceeded all expectations because in the game at Hard Rock Stadium, on the second date of the regular season, the Bills had outstripped the surflorida 31-10 in an unappealable way, the night Tua suffered a concussion.
The Bills, however, managed to get up on the board. Mostert lost the ovoid in an attack and made the home counteroffensive.
After the Dolphins’s defensive line-up had prevented Allen from orchestrating a touchdown, the quarterback could finally get it at 7:36 minutes into the third period with a one-yard serve for Mack Hollins.
That point lost to Bass could have been crucial. At least, in the next attack, the Dolphins scored a 23-foot field goal from Sanders and recovered the lead 13-12.
It was a coup fight. Allen combined with Ray Davis for a 63-yard touchdown and as if that weren’t enough, the quarterback went for the conversion and Coleman scored for the Bills to go back forward, this time 20-13.
With 2:40 seconds left on the chronometer in the fourth period, Achane scored a touchdown with an eight-yard run to tie 20-20 on the board.
The Buffalo Bills came back on the charge and with a dramatic two-legged pass from Allen to Quintin Morris went up 27-20 on the scoreboard with 9:36 minutes to play.
Bass was about to fail again at the extra point, but on this occasion, the ovoid crashed into one of the stops and entered the bow.
With a seven-yard touchdown, after Tua’s pass to Waddle, the Dolphins equaled the board 27-27 with 1:45 minutes to go end the game.
Then, a couple of penalties allowed the Bills to get closer to kicking range. Had Miami’s defense been more disciplined, Bass wouldn’t have had a chance to shoot the final field goal and the Dolphins would have gone in extra time. It was not so and we must try to be impeccable in the decisive hour.
