The Miami Dolphins are getting their first Sunday Night time Soccer Sport since 2017 as one in all two prime-time video games on the 2022 schedule, plus Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to go to for Christmas for an additional nationally televised sport, as their regular-season slate was introduced on Thursday evening.
Ex-coach Brian Flores’ return to Miami as a defensive assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Oct. 23 would be the nightcap of Week 7′s NFL motion. Three weeks prior, the Dolphins’ journey to Cincinnati will likely be Week 4′s Thursday evening affair on Sept. 29.
Whereas there was hypothesis the Dolphins’ street sport with the Detroit Lions could possibly be a Thanksgiving sport, they prevented that, however Miami will host the Packers on Christmas Day, when Rodgers performs in Miami for the primary time in eight years.
The Dolphins will kick off the common season towards the New England Patriots on Sept. 11 at Exhausting Rock Stadium, they usually additionally end the season at dwelling throughout the division, internet hosting the Jets.
Miami is not going to depart the nation in 2022 after getting a global sequence sport in London towards the Jaguars final season, however the Dolphins, with two journeys to the West Coast and several other extra up north, are slated to journey the fourth-most miles within the league. They may keep out west for the back-to-back December video games on the San Francisco 49ers, which pits new coach Mike McDaniel towards his former group, and the Los Angeles Chargers.
After getting annual journeys to New England and Buffalo out of the way in which by Halloween final season, these two probably frigid street video games will happen within the remaining 4 weeks.
The Dolphins’ three preseason video games have been additionally introduced, and Miami is not going to depart the state of Florida with the one street sport on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and residential video games to comply with towards the Las Vegas Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles.
Right here’s a breakdown of the Dolphins’ 2022 regular-season schedule:
Week 1: vs. New England Patriots, Sept. 11, 1 p.m., CBS
Final season, the Dolphins opened on the Patriots and had their finale at dwelling towards New England, sweeping each matchups. They open once more with the Patriots for a 3rd consecutive 12 months, however this time at Exhausting Rock Stadium. Tua Tagovailoa is 2-0 towards his former backup quarterback at Alabama in Mac Jones and 3-0 total towards coach Invoice Belichick and the Patriots in his profession after additionally profitable a rookie-year matchup in 2020. This matchup not has the added intrigue of Brian Flores going towards the group he spent a decade and a half with below Belichick, however now longtime Dolphins receiver DeVante Parker is in New England.
Week 2: at Baltimore Ravens, Sept. 18, 1 p.m., CBS
The Dolphins, who've by no means received at M&T Financial institution Stadium, go to Baltimore to start the street slate after internet hosting the Ravens final season for one of many extra shocking wins of the 2021 season. Miami had a 22-10 Thursday evening win at Exhausting Rock Stadium as a double-digit underdog. Additional native curiosity at all times comes from this matchup with Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson a Pompano Seaside native and Boynton Seaside Excessive grad.
Week 3: vs. Buffalo Payments, Sept. 25, 1 p.m., CBS
The Dolphins look to snap a seven-game shedding streak within the rivalry sequence towards the group that's the new king within the AFC East. Final season’s sweep by the hands of Buffalo began and ended Miami’s in-season seven-game shedding streak that bought the Dolphins to 1-7 earlier than turning issues round for wins in eight of their final 9.
Week 4: at Cincinnati Bengals, Thursday, Sept. 29, 8:15 p.m., Prime Video
The Dolphins get their first of two prime-time kickoffs, visiting the defending AFC champs and quarterback Joe Burrow, who has reached immense heights after going to the Bengals with the No. 1 decide within the 2020 draft. The Thursday nighter marks Miami’s first journey to Cincinnati since a 2018 loss.
Week 5: at New York Jets, Oct. 9, 1 p.m., CBS
Just like the Patriots, one other divisional foe the Dolphins swept in 2021. Miami has received 4 straight and eight of their final 9 within the sequence towards the Jets. This matchup is one other showdown of younger quarterbacks with New York’s Zach Wilson heading into his second season. The Jets rebuilt by the draft, very like the Dolphins did the 12 months prior, with 4 of the primary 36 picks in late April.
Week 6: vs. Minnesota Vikings, Oct. 16, 1 p.m., FOX
The final time the Dolphins received the Tremendous Bowl, it got here towards the Vikings, to conclude the 1973 season. That’s historical historical past at this level, however so is Minnesota’s final win in Miami, which got here in 1976 because the Dolphins have received their final 4 conferences at dwelling. Former Miami Central Excessive and Florida State standout Dalvin Prepare dinner is about for a homecoming right here.
Week 7: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, Oct. 23, 8:20 p.m., NBC
Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores, now a defensive assistant on Steelers coach Mike Tomlin’s workers, makes his return to Miami for a Sunday Night time Soccer storyline. Flores was head coach of the Dolphins for 3 seasons, going 24-25. He filed a class-action lawsuit towards the NFL and various groups claiming racist hiring and retention practices towards Black coaches. He alleged within the lawsuit that Dolphins proprietor Steve Ross provided him monetary incentive to tank and lose video games in 2019, which Ross has vehemently denied.
Week 8: at Detroit Lions, Oct. 30, 1 p.m., CBS
It was believed this could possibly be a Thanksgiving Day sport, however the Dolphins dodged a Turkey Day journey to Detroit as an alternative bought one on the eve of Halloween. Miami final had a Thanksgiving sport in 2011, a loss to the Dallas Cowboys. The Dolphins are 7-5 all time towards the Lions.
Week 9: at Chicago Bears, Nov. 6, 1 p.m., CBS
At any time when these two groups play, one has to suppose again to the historic 1985 Monday Night time Soccer matchup the place the Dolphins handed that 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl-winning Bears their one loss, defending the franchise’s 1972 reign of getting the lone undefeated group. The Dolphins visited the Bears for joint practices and a preseason sport in Chicago final August, however the two groups now have new head coaches.
Week 10: vs. Cleveland Browns, Nov. 13, 1 p.m., CBS
Deshaun Watson is coming to Miami — however not like that. The previous Houston Texans quarterback was linked to the Dolphins in commerce talks for a lot of the 2021 offseason and common season up till final November’s commerce deadline, however the Browns in the end made the transfer for him this offseason. Watson might additionally nonetheless face suspension stemming from the 22 civil lawsuits towards him with claims starting from sexual misconduct to sexual assault that he is not going to be charged criminally for.
Week 11: BYE WEEK, Nov. 20
Week 12: vs. Houston Texans, Nov. 27, 1 p.m., CBS
Miami has traditionally struggled towards the NFL’s final enlargement franchise because it entered the league in 2002. The Dolphins misplaced their first seven conferences with the Texans however have since received two of three. They host Houston for a second consecutive season after final 12 months’s 17-9 Nov. 7 win snapped a seven-game shedding streak and started a seven-game profitable streak.
Week 13: at San Francisco 49ers, Dec. 4, 4:05 p.m., FOX
New Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel returns to San Francisco to face the franchise he referred to as dwelling for the previous 5 seasons below 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, with the final coming as offensive coordinator. That is the additional matchup below the NFL’s 17-game schedule instituted final season, like the house sport towards the New York Giants was final season.
Week 14: at Los Angeles Chargers, Dec. 11, 4:05 p.m., CBS
The second assembly between quarterbacks from the 2020 draft in Tua Tagovailoa, whom the Dolphins chosen with the No. 5 decide, and Justin Herbert, whom the Dolphins handed on to draft Tagovailoa. Herbert has the 2020 Rookie of the Yr and a 2021 Professional Bowl choice to his benefit, however Tagovailoa received their first assembly, at dwelling of their rookie seasons. Miami will get its two West Coast journeys on back-to-back Sundays.
Week 15: at Buffalo Payments, Dec. 17 or 18, Time/TV TBD
The Dolphins’ final win in Buffalo got here on Christmas Eve in 2016, a key victory in Miami’s final playoff berth.
Week 16: vs. Inexperienced Bay Packers, Dec. 25, 1 p.m., FOX
Final 12 months’s prime seed within the NFC visits Exhausting Rock Stadium on Christmas in 2022. The Dolphins received their first eight all-time conferences towards the Packers, however Inexperienced Bay has since taken 5 of the final seven. Might this go to for Aaron Rodgers, who's 2-1 in his profession towards Miami, probably play a job in a 2023 offseason resolution for him ought to Tua Tagovailoa wrestle this 12 months, main the Dolphins to buy a brand new quarterback?
Week 17: at New England Patriots, Jan. 1, 1 p.m., CBS
After bookend video games towards the Patriots within the 2021 season, the Dolphins’ penultimate sport this season will likely be at New England after opening at dwelling with the division rival. Final 12 months, the Dolphins bought simply their second win in Foxborough since 2008 on that journey. They could possibly be in for a chilly one on New Yr’s Day.
Week 18: vs. New York Jets, Jan. 7 or 8, Time/TV TBD
This time, the Dolphins wrap up the season with a house finale towards the Jets. Might they make this one significant for playoff implications after, final season, getting eradicated in Week 17?
The Dolphins’ preseason schedule:
Week 1: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sat., Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m., CBS
Week 2: vs. Las Vegas Raiders, Sat., Aug. 20, 7 p.m., CBS
Week 3: vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Sat., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., CBS
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