MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — It took Denver eight games to score 10 touchdowns last season. They gave up 10 Sunday alone.
The Broncos did not give up an all-time, single-game record number of points to the Dolphins on Sunday. Not because they did anything to deserve avoiding that scarlet letter piled on top of a 70-20 loss at Hard Rock Stadium.
Only because Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel opted not to listen to the bloodthirsty, blissfully bewildered fans on hand who saw their side score 10 touchdowns, knew no team had ever scored 73 in a regular-season game and booed McDaniel’s humanity while chanting, “three more points.”
McDaniel called the Dolphins off at 70.
Seventy.
In an NFL game.
Against a Broncos defense that entered the season fancying itself one of the game’s best and through three games is instead its worst.
“That’s the most embarrassing game I’ve ever been a part of,” Broncos inside linebacker Alex Singleton said, searching for words to describe an indescribably bad day at the office. “It’s the most embarrassing game I’ve ever watched. We’ve got to figure it out. Thank god it’s only one. But we can’t make it more.”
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