Marcel Louis-JacquesOct 31, 2025, 01:42 AM ETCloseMarcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for enterprise writing in 2018.Follow on X
Ravens fans flooded to Hard Rock Stadium to witness a 28-6 victory over the Dolphins and impacted the game early on. Dolphins right tackle Larry Borom was flagged for a false start on fourth-and-1 on the team’s third drive of the game after appearing to react to Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy’s pre-snap movement.
After the game, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said the crowd noise played a role in the early miscue.
Broadcast cameras caught an irate Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel’s reaction to the flag. After the game, he clarified where his outburst was aimed.
Fans of both teams headed toward the exit en masse late in the third quarter when Baltimore took a 22-point lead; some Dolphins fans who stayed wore paper bags or even popcorn buckets over their heads.
Miami turned the ball over three times Thursday, went 2-for-12 on third downs and failed to score on any of its three redzone trips, including a third-quarter fumble and an incomplete pass on fourth down from the Ravens’ 13-yard line. McDaniel said he understood and even shared fans’ frustrations.
Four days after a 34-10 road win over the Atlanta Falcons, the Dolphins appeared ready to keep their momentum going against Baltimore. In the first half, Miami outgained the Ravens 226-109 and possessed the ball for 18:29 to the Ravens’ 11:01, but still trailed 14-6 at halftime.
McDaniel said it’s “generally a bad omen” to trail in a game you should be winning. Tagovailoa said Miami’s offense “couldn’t find our flow.”
The game got out of hand in the third quarter, when Baltimore outgained the Dolphins 166-39 and opened a three-score lead.
With the Dolphins’ record dropping to 2-7, their worst start since McDaniel took over in 2022, linebacker Jordyn Brooks offered a blunt assessment of how the team played Thursday.
“We’ve got to capitalize when we get down to the redzone,” Brooks said. “We just had too many turnovers today, and I feel like that really hurt us. … I felt like we played well defensively in the first half, but turnovers — that kills you. Not capitalizing, not scoring when we could, giving them the ball back, giving them an extra set of downs. Players like [the Ravens’ offense], they’re going to find a way to get into the endzone.
“We’ve got to capitalize when we’ve got the chance to and play complementary football. … Until we learn how to not beat ourselves, we won’t win a football game.”
CloseMarcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for enterprise writing in 2018.Follow on X
Kicker Riley Patterson missed the ensuing 35-yard field goal after the penalty.
Miami has a 10-day mini-bye before hosting the Buffalo Bills in Week 10.