Three Takeaways Miami Dolphins Week 13 at San Francisco 49ers NFL 2022

All year, Miami has methodically chewed up chunks of yardage. Since the aerial display we saw in Baltimore back in September, Miami’s longest offensive touchdown was the 29-yard dime from Tagovailoa to Jaylen Waddle in Detroit. Sunday in Santa Clara, Miami found paydirt from 75 and 45 yards out by going to Sherfield and Tyreek Hill.

Hill, who logged nine grabs for 146 yards, leads the NFL in both catches (96) and receiving yardage (1,379). The yardage leaves Hill just 10 yards shy of Mark Clayton’s 1,389 yards in 1984, the Miami Dolphins franchise record for single-season receiving yards.

Tagovailoa, who now has five touchdown throws of 40-plus yards this season and a league-leading 75 passes of at least 15 yards, explained the process of the two long scores.

“We were in 20-personnel, I think they were in base. They had no adjustments to the bunch. They just had their backers stacked inside and ended up bringing a guy off the edge to that side so there was a little pocket, a little area that was voided. So we gave Trent (Sherfield) that ball and he turned that into a touchdown,” Tagovailoa said.

“Then the other play, we went fast on the ball and we saw quarters. They gave us the right coverage for the right play and we took a shot,” Tagovailoa said of the Hill touchdown.