MIAMI GARDENS — The Miami Dolphins entered Sunday’s home opener against New England badly needing a victory. They didn’t get it, losing, 33-27, to fall to 0-2 heading into Thursday’s game at Buffalo .

Fans were angry during the past week, angry enough to finance an airplane that towed a banner an anti-general manager and anti-coach banner reading “Fire Chris Grier. Fire Mike McDaniel.”

Fans also booed the Dolphins lightly early in the game. All was forgiven by the third quarter when the Dolphins took a 17-15 lead that they turned into a 20-15 advantage. But that happiness didn’t last long, and perhaps the same could be said for McDaniel’s future with the Dolphins . We’ll see.

This week will be ugly ; here are some of the top takeaways from Sunday’s game:

Dolphins should brace fo

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