Christmas Day turned bitter for Dolphins fans, just short of midnight, when Mike Nugent connected on a 30 yard field goal to hand the Jets a 13-10 victory in Miami.

Joey Harrington started and was sluggish again, although he avoided costly mistakes. He was 7 for 15 for 42 yards in the first half. Neither team scored until a Jets field goal with 2:25 left in the third quarter.

To start the second half, Cleo Lemon was inserted into the game and, again, the offense just seemed a little more interesting with him in there. He wasn't afraid to make some throws and the offense was most productive with him at the helm (although, the weather was better during the second half, I believe). He was 11 of 16 for 104 yards and a touchdown.

That TD was caught by Randy McMichael, who led the Dolphin receivers with 5 catches and 46 yards. Hagan looked good as well with 35 yards on 3 catches. Sammy Morris had 23 yards on 4 catches to go along with 14 yards on 6 rushing attempts.

Speaking of rushing, Ronnie Brown looked very good in his return, rushing for 110 yards on 18 carries (and catching 3 balls for 15 yards). The only question I have is... in a close game like this, if he's averaging 6.1 yards a carry - why didn't he carry more? It's not like we've got Dan Marino out there passing for us still.

In all, the defense was solid. Zach had 9 tackles. Jason Taylor had 3 tackles and a sack. John Denney made a heads up fumble recovery on a Donnie Jones punt where the ball bounced back and hit an unknowing Jets special teamer in the leg. Denney bounced on it for the recovery. Speaking of Donnie, he hit a career high with 10 punts, averaging 42.7 per.

Next Sunday, we'll finish the season off in Indy at 4:15 PM. The game has been moved back from 1:00 PM.

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