Miami, FL
Miami Heat Urged To Cut Ties With Terry Rozier In Favor Of Unpredictable Bulls Guard
The Miami Heat’s fanbase is starting to grow tired of guard Terry Rozier’s lackluster play.
After landing with the Heat at last year’s trade deadline, Rozier appeared well on track for a strong campaign. Instead, the former Charlotte Hornet has only scored 20 or more points once this regular season.
If the Heat decide to listen to their community and cut ties with him, the fanbase has a perfect replacement idea. Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer reported the Chicago Bulls are willing to part with former No. 2 pick and unpredictable guard Lonzo Ball.
“No surprise, then, that Bulls executives, according to league sources, have been messaging to rival front offices that they are willing to discuss the majority of their roster in trade talks leading up to the Feb. 6 trade deadline,” Fischer wrote on The Stein Line. “Most notably, sources say, Chicago has expressed a desire to move LaVine, Vučević and Ball.”
Heat fans wasted no time calling for the front office to acquire Ball, with one fan writing, “Miami should cut their loses with Rozier and try to make this deal.” The reply gathered more than 100,000 views, and few disagreed with the idea in the comments.
Ball undoubtedly fits the mold the Heat are searching for in a backcourt partner for Tyler Herro, but the health concerns loom large for the former Los Angeles Laker.
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Anthony Pasciolla works as a contributing writer to Miami Heat On SI. He can be reached at ampasciolla@gmail.com or follow him on X @AnthonyPasci.
Miami, FL
Social Media Reaction to Dolphins Loss at Green Bay
The Week 13 loss at Green Bay was just too much for fans of the Miami Dolphins to bear on their own. They took to social media to voice their discontent after yet another late season, cold-weather loss.
The Miami Dolphins lost against the Green Bay Packers, 30-17, in the cold and (some) snow. They were looking to change narratives, but nothing changed. They were embarrassed in prime time on a national holiday.
Things could not have gotten much worse Thursday night.
One fan on social media said he wants to see the National Football League ban the Dolphins from playing on national television at night. The embarrassment that @joboken5 felt could easily be said for many Dolphins fans across the base.
Zach, a university student, said the Dolphins loss ruined the holiday joy of their fan base. With the rest of the winter holidays coming up and the Dolphins scheduled for two more cold-weather games, the holidays could be at further peril.
@cujoknows believes the season, when finished with cold-weather games, against better than average teams, is nothing more than a dumpster fire. It is hard to disagree with him, when the team is 0-for-cold weather games during the Mike McDaniel era.
Cujo thinks the Dolphins have their best shot at winning games when the temperature is over 60 degrees and teams have a below .500 winning percentage. The way the last two seasons have gone, we cannot find fault with the statement.
Zachapp posted his dismay at Washington’s muffed punt. He went so far as to call the Dolphins embarrassing.
UD from Utah, a/k/a @utahdolphin, as opposed to the UD from Miami named Udonis Haslem, believes the Dolphins are the softest team in the NFL. All UD wants, according to his profile is for the Dolphins to win a championship during his lifetime. Let’s hope he lives a long life and gets to see that happen.
A self-proclaimed Jets fan had snuck his way into the Dolphins timeline. He is this week’s Captain Obvious, but he really has little room to talk.
The Dolphins might not be able to win cold-weather games as a warm-weather team, vur what does it say for the Jets? The Jets play in a cold-weather climate and still can’t win at home.
Miami, FL
Packers freeze out Dolphins as Miami’s cold weather woes continue
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Jordan Love celebrated the Green Bay Packers’ victory on Thanksgiving by taking a bite out of a turkey leg and raising it in the air.
His feast was a long time coming.
Love led the Packers to a Thanksgiving Day triumph in Detroit last year but wasn’t given a turkey leg afterward, as is customary in these televised postgame interviews.
His teammates vowed to make sure Love got a turkey leg this time, and he earned it by throwing two touchdown passes to Jayden Reed in a 30-17 win over the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night.
“To be able to come in here, get the win, get the turkey leg after, it was very delicious,” said Love, who went 21 of 28 for 274 yards. “Just a little something to celebrate.”
Josh Jacobs brought a turkey platter into the locker room as Green Bay (9-3) commemorated a third straight victory.
The Packers, who have won seven of their last eight games, built a 27-3 lead and made a goal-line stand to thwart a comeback attempt.
Miami (5-7) continued its recent history of struggling in cold weather.
The kickoff temperature at Lambeau Field was 27 degrees (-2.7 Celsius) with 10 mph winds, light flurries and a wind chill of 18.
“I would say, from my standpoint and our team’s standpoint, we’re not going to use any of that as an excuse for why we didn’t get the start that we wanted,” said Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who was 37 of 46 for 365 yards with two touchdowns despite getting sacked five times.
The Dolphins have lost their past 12 regular-season or postseason games in which the temperature at kickoff has been below 40 degrees (4.4 Celsius).
The Dolphins’ most recent victory in a game with a kickoff temperature at 40 or lower was a 34-31 overtime triumph at Buffalo on Dec. 24, 2016.
Green Bay is playing three games in a 12-day stretch.
The Packers beat the San Francisco 49ers 38-10 on Sunday and will visit the NFC North-leading Detroit Lions next Thursday night.
“I thought we played well for it being a short week,” Packers safety Xavier McKinney said. “I thought we came out there and had the right mindset. And we started fast, and that was the key to today’s win.”
Love and Reed connected on touchdown completions of 3 and 12 yards, Jacobs scored from 1 yard out and Brandon McManus kicked two field goals as Green Bay led 27-3 midway through the third quarter.
Miami tried to rally.
Tagovailoa’s 14-yard pass to De’Von Achane – and a 2-point conversion pass to Jaylen Waddle – cut Green Bay’s lead to 27-11 with 2:43 left in third. After Miami stopped Jacobs for a 2-yard loss on third-and-1 to force a punt, the Dolphins drove again and had second-and-goal at the 1 early in the fourth quarter.
“We fought hard,” Dolphins defensive lineman Calais Campbell said. “We have no quit in us. I really genuinely believed we were going to give ourselves a chance to win at the end.”
Green Bay’s goal-line defense vanquished those hopes. After Rashan Gary stopped Achane on second down and Tagovailoa couldn’t connect with Jonnu Smith on third down, Quay Walker made a fourth-down sack with 9:33 remaining.
A 49-yard completion from Love to Jacobs then set up McManus’ 33-yard field goal with 5:02 left.
Miami completed the scoring on a deflected 12-yard touchdown pass from Tagovailoa to Tyreek Hill with 3:04 remaining.
Miami’s slow start enabled the Packers to take command.
After forcing a three-and-out on the opening possession, the Dolphins gave Green Bay a first-and-goal opportunity when Malik Washington muffed a punt and Robert Rochell recovered at the 9.
The turnover set up Love’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Reed on third-and-goal.
Green Bay reached the end zone again on its next series as Jacobs’ touchdown capped a 12-play, 76-yard drive that lasted nearly seven minutes.
The Dolphins had first-and-goal at the 9 in the second quarter but settled for Jason Sanders’ 33-yard field goal.
Green Bay then scored 10 points in the final 96 seconds of the half to make it 24-3.
On third-and-2 from the 12, Reed caught a pass around the line of scrimmage and used a downfield block from Dontayvion Wicks to reach the end zone.
After Tagovailoa overthrew Achane on fourth-and-5 from the Green Bay 38 with 22 seconds left, a couple of completions from Love to Tucker Kraft helped the Packers get into position for McManus’ 46-yard field goal as time expired.
From that point on, it was pretty much just a matter of making sure Love didn’t go hungry.
“That was the one thing that was the most important to me, was making sure Jordan got his leg,” Kraft said.
Miami, FL
Dolphins-Packers 2024 Week 13 Five Biggest Storylines
The Miami Dolphins will look to even their record at 6-6 when they face the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Thanksgiving night.
The Dolphins are on a three-game winning streak with victories against the Los Angeles Rams, Las Vegas Raiders and New England Patriots. The Packers are 8-3 and coming off a Week 12 rout of the San Francisco 49ers.
The Dolphins and Packers are meeting for the first time since Christmas Day 2022 when Green Bay left Miami with a 26-20 victory.
Here are the five biggest storylines for this year’s Week 13 matchup.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but the Dolphins haven’t had a lot of success in cold-weather games in recent years. While the conditions in this one won’t be anywhere near as brutal as those in Kansas City in January, it won’t exactly be South Florida weather either. The Dolphins will need to show at some point that conditions don’t matter to the way they operate on offense and defense and this would be a good place to start.
Of course, at the forefront of the weather factor will be quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, even though we’ve already addressed this narrative based solely on his record being a bit overblown. More importantly here is whether Tagovailoa can continue the ridiculously high level of efficiency he’s shown since coming back against a Packers defense infinitely better than what the Dolphins saw against the Raiders and Patriots.
This game will feature an interesting quarterback battle between 2020 first-round picks Tagovailoa and Jordan Love. The latter has had a bit of an up-and-down season, starting with a scary-looking ankle injury in the opener in Brazil. The biggest issue for Love this season has been turnovers, and the Dolphins would make their task of winning a lot easier if they can pick him off once or twice, and a couple of sacks wouldn’t hurt either.
A big key to the Green Bay is the running game, which is led by free agent acquisition Josh Jacobs. The Dolphins had a lot of success stuffing Jacobs last year at Hard Rock Stadium, but he was running then behind the Raiders offensive line and his quarterback was Aidan O’Connell, who the Dolphins didn’t have to worry about nearly as much as they do Jordan Love. Keeping Jacobs in check, at least to a certain degree, is a big key in this game.
We hate to keep harping on the special teams, but that’s just life, especially if we go back to that 2022 meeting at Hard Rock Stadium and remember that Keisean Nixon had a 93-yard kickoff return for Green Bay. He didn’t score on the return and the Dolphins held Green Bay to a field goal, but the point remains. And it won’t be as simple as having Jason Sanders kicking off deep into the end zone to prevent a long return because the ball simply doesn’t travel as well in the cold — and, again, it will be cold.
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