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Dolphins Stun Baltimore with Incredible Comeback

Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle have monster days to help the Miami Dolphins improve to 2-0 on the season
Tommy Milligan - USA Today Sports

Simply amazing!

That's the only way to described what happened at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Behind Tua Tagovailoa's career-high 469 passing yards and career-high six touchdown passes, the Miami Dolphins came back from a 35-14 third-quarter deficit to stun the Baltimore Ravens 42-38.

The Dolphins won the game when Tagovailoa threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle with 14 seconds left in the fourth quarter, not long after Justin Tucker had given Baltimore a 38-35 lead with a 51-yard field goal.

Tagovailoa threw four of his franchise-record-tying six touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, including throws of 48 and 60 yards to Tyreek Hill, who had 190 yards on 11 catches.

Waddle finished with 11 catches for 171 yards as the Dolphins unleashed their new high-speed, high-octane offense.

It was a remarkable turnaround not only for the Dolphins but for Tagovailoa, who struggled in the first half but ended up tying a long-standing team record shared by Hall of Famers Bob Griese and Dan Marino.

Tua's other touchdown passes went to Waddle for 6 yards, tight end Mike Gesicki for 14 yards and River Cracraft for 2 yards.

TUA AND LAMAR JACKSON IN GREAT QB BATTLE

In the end, Tagovailoa came out on top in a duel with Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, who threw three touchdown passes and had a career-long 79-yard touchdown run.

Jackson's touchdown run was just one of three long plays for Baltimore, which also got a 103-yard kickoff return by Devin Duvernay to open the game and a 75-yard pass from Jackson to Rashod Bateman after he caught a short slant pass.

But the Dolphins defense finally found some answers in the fourth quarter, holding Baltimore to only a field goal.

More importantly, the defense stuffed Jackson for a 1-yard loss on a fourth-and-1 when Baltimore led 35-14, a play that turned the game around.

The fourth-quarter stop kept the Dolphins in the game and they responded with a quick touchdown drive capped by Tua's 48-yard pass to Hill after he got behind the Baltimore secondary.


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Alain Poupart
ALAIN POUPART

Alain Poupart is the publisher/editor of Miami Dolphins On SI and host of the All Dolphins Podcast. Alain has covered the Miami Dolphins on a full-time basis since 1989 for various publications and media outlets, including Dolphin Digest, The Associated Press and the Dolphins team website. In addition to being a credentialed member of the Miami Dolphins press corps, Alain has covered three Super Bowls (for NFL.com, Football News and the Montreal Gazette), the annual NFL draft, the Senior Bowl, and the NFL Scouting Combine. During his almost 40 years in journalism, which began at the now-defunct Miami News, Alain has covered practically every sport at one time or another, from tennis to golf, baseball, basketball and everything in between. The career also included time as a copy editor, including work on several books, such as "Still Perfect," an inside look at the Miami Dolphins' 1972 perfect season. A native of Montreal, Canada, whose first language is French, Alain grew up a huge hockey fan but soon developed a love for all sports, including NFL football. He has lived in South Florida since the 1980s.

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