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Bucs sink Dolphins for first victory
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Bobby Rainey scored a one-yard touchdown run with 10:19 remaining as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their first National Football League game of the season, 22-19 over the reeling Miami Dolphins on Monday.
The Dolphins have been struggling for the past week over the locker room bullying scandal that saw blocker Richie Incognito suspended indefinitely for a series of racist remarks and threats against fellow lineman Jonathan Martin, who left the team a week ago.
Now Miami can add to that the disgrace of allowing the last winless team in the NFL, Tampa Bay, to end that status and reach 1-8 while the Dolphins fell to 4-5, one game behind the New York Jets for the last American Conference playoff spot.
The bullying story dominated news around the Dolphins’ workouts before the first game since the scandal broke. But Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill would not blame the distraction nor the loss of the two blockers. “They were two starters but the guys who played those spots stepped up and replaced them and played pretty well,” Tannehill said.
Tannehill completed 27 of 42 passes for 229 yards and two touchdowns with one interception. But the Dolphins managed only two yards rushing, a record one-game low in team history, and the Bucs avoided their fifth 0-9 start in club history.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said before the game that he plans to meet with Martin and talk with him about the bullying claims, which are now the subject of an NFL investigation into workplace issues around the club.
“We have been careful in our statements and in our comments, as we have not wanted to make a rush to judgment until we know all of the facts,” Ross said.
(AFP)
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