MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The scenes around the quiet visitors’ locker room late Sunday afternoon at Hard Rock Stadium painted a portrait of a team that has come to the sobering realization all hope for a successful season has expired.
Jamal Adams, the emotionally combustible second-year safety, stood motionless, facing his locker with a towel around his waist and one around his neck, gripping the walls and looking like he wanted to ransack the entire room in a rage.
Guard Brian Winters, wearing a faraway stare of utter despair and disgust, sat on the bench in front of his locker in a state of undress, half in his uniform and half out, long after teammates around him had showered and changed into street clothes.