The Miami Dolphins ensured that they won’t be joining the likes of the 2008 Lions or 2017 Browns in winless infamy by beating the rival New York Jets this past Sunday. But Dolphins QB Malik Willis isn’t keen on celebrating not being historically bad.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Willis dismissed the idea that getting their first win of the season was something worth celebrating throughout the week. He said that the goal has to be to get better and start stacking wins.
“We’re 1-5, so it’s not like we won the Super Bowl,” Willis said. “We’ve got to continue to get better, continue to work. We want to stack more of those, and to do that we’ve got to continue to get better from what we put on tape this past week and the weeks before that. That’s what’s important, keeping the focus on let’s try to go 1-0 this week. That’s what it’s about now.
“Just continue to focus, 24 hours after the game, you’ve got to focus on the next week. We’ve got another game coming this week, and if we’re stuck worrying about that, we won’t get any better. We lost five games in a row and we continued to get better, so after we win a game we have to try to get better.”
Was there any celebrating after the win?
That isn’t to say that the Dolphins were all somber and filled with frowns after beating the Jets and ending their winless run. Willis said that the team celebrated in the locker room after the win, but indicated that the celebrations didn’t extend beyond that.
“We did a good job celebrating as a team in the locker room after the game,” Willis said. “That’s when you have the most excitement, the most joy from putting it out there, putting it on the line for 60 minutes. All the guys celebrated and we had a good time.”
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Unfortunately, the Dolphins might find wins few and far between moving forward. They play the Patriots on Sunday, then the Lions before a winnable game against the Colts.
After that it’s Bills, Jets, Broncos, Bears, Packers, Chargers, Bills again and finally the Patriots again.
That looks to be about three or four winnable games and they’re not even guaranteed to win all of those games regardless.
Will Sunday’s win wind up being their last of the season?
