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Dolphins let run game lead way against Jets’ top-ranked rush defense

57. 86. 72. 66. 61. 171. 11. 68. Those are the rushing totals allowed by the New York Jets in their first eight games of the season. That averaged to 74 yards per game allowed, the best per-game average allowed in the league over the first eight weeks of the year. New York allowed just 3.3 yards-per-attempt heading into their game with the Miami Dolphins.

And the Dolphins simply did not care about those stats.

The Dolphins gained 137 yards on the ground on Sunday, with Jay Ajayi picking up 111 of those. The team picked up 4.