Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel didn't believe the cold weather at Lambeau Field was the reason his team missed 20 tackles against the Green Bay Packers. Other players on defense with this assessment.
Starting linebacker Jordyn Brooks was not one of them.
“I felt like we left the way we played up to the elements,” Brooks told reporters after the 30-17 loss. . “I thought we were gentle, so easy. I thought we were soft today.
“I don’t know if the boys were too cold. I don’t know what it was, but I feel like the elements played a role in how we played as a group.”
Brooks, who joined the Dolphins on a three-year deal in the offseason after spending the first four seasons of his career with the Seattle Seahawks, finished with nine tackles in the loss.
Earlier this season, several Miami defensive players were outraged by their former teammate DeShon Elliott and called out the Dolphins in a podcast appearance. But that description of the franchise came just months after safety Jordan Poyer, who joined the Dolphins in the offseason, said he previously knew the team as one that would do this .
The “soft” label for the Dolphins loses nothing after the team missed 20 tackles on Thursday, especially when that description comes from the team's own locker room.