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Trent Murphy Prepares For Quick Dolphins Attack

Trent Murphy hopes to lean on his past experiences against a quick-paced Dolphins offensive approach.

Trent Murphy is hesitant to call the NFL a “copycat league,” because each team tries to throw in its own wrinkles and adjustments throughout the season to keep its opposition guessing.

But as the second-year outside linebacker prepares for Sunday’s 2015 season opener against the Miami Dolphins at FedExField, he knows he has plenty of recent experiences from which he can draw to try to do what he can to stop a quick-paced offensive attack.

And it all begins with quarterback Ryan Tannehill, a rising star under center for the Dolphins who turned in a career year last season by completing 392-of-590 passes (66.