DOLPHINS (3-0) at BENGALS (1-2)
Kickoff: 8:15 p.m., Thursday, Paycor Stadium
TV: Prime Video, WSFL-TV (Ch. 39 in Miami-Dade, Broward); RADIO: Westwood One, WQAM (560 AM), KISS (99.9 FM), WQBA (1140 AM, Spanish)
Coaches: The Dolphins’ Mike McDaniel is 3-0 in his first season as a head coach; Zac Taylor, together with playoffs, is 20-35 in his fourth head teaching season total and main the Bengals.
Series: The Dolphins lead the all-time collection with the Bengals, 18-7, together with playoffs, and have received 5 of the previous seven.
Weather: 59 levels, 63 % humidity, 1 % likelihood of precipitation.
Line: The Dolphins are a 4 1/2-point underdog; the over/underneath is 47.
Injuries: Dolphins —Out: TE Cethan Carter (concussion), TE Hunter Long (ankle); Questionable: QB Tua Tagovailoa (again/ankle), OT Terron Armstead (toe), CB Xavien Howard (groin/glute), WR Jaylen Waddle (groin), S Brandon Jones (chest), DT Raekwon Davis (knee), WR Cedrick Wilson Jr. (ribs/toe); Reserve/PUP: CB Byron Jones (decrease leg); Injured reserve: OT Austin Jackson (ankle), CB Trill Williams (knee), TE Adam Shaheen (knee), S Clayton Fejedelem, LB Calvin Munson, FB John Lovett; Bengals — Out: DT DJ Reader (knee), TE Drew Sample (knee); Questionable: OT La’el Collins (again), LB Germaine Pratt (knee); Injured reserve: Seven gamers on IR.
Noteworthy: The Dolphins are one in all two remaining unbeaten groups coming into Week 4 (Philadelphia Eagles are additionally 3-0). Miami has executed it by means of a tough early-season stretch vs. the New England Patriots, on the Baltimore Ravens and vs. the Buffalo Bills earlier than Thursday’s sport in Cincinnati. …
If Tagovailoa is ready to play, it might be his first skilled matchup in opposition to Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow. The two third-year quarterbacks had been chosen fifth and first, respectively, within the 2020 NFL draft. Burrow was injured when their two groups met of their rookie seasons. …
The upstart Bengals, coming off a shock run to the Super Bowl in 2021, misplaced their first two video games of the season to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys earlier than bouncing again in Week 3 in opposition to the New York Jets. …
With a win, the Dolphins would get off to their seventh 4-0 begin and first since 1995. It would make McDaniel Miami’s first head coach to begin 4-0 and could be the franchise’s five hundredth victory, together with playoffs. …
The Dolphins enter with a four-game profitable streak in prime-time video games — 2020 at Jacksonville (Thursday) and at Las Vegas (Saturday), 2021 vs. Baltimore (Thursday) and at New Orleans (Monday). Miami is 5-6 all-time in Thursday night time video games because the bundle started in 2006. …
The Bengals will debut their new white-on-white uniforms for the prime-time sport.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com