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Herbert completed 39 of 51 passes for Los Angeles (7-6), which
controlled the ball for more than 39 minutes and nearly doubled
Miami in total yardage. Mike Williams caught six passes for 116
yards and a TD for the Chargers.
Herbert led long drives all game, including one of more than 8
1/2 minutes in the fourth quarter that set up Cameron Dicker's
28-yard field goal with 2:40 left that made it 23-14. Jason
Sanders bombed a 55-yarder to pull Miami within six points at
the 1:10 mark, but Nick Niemann recovered an onside kick near
midfield to seal the outcome.
The Dolphins managed only 219 yards, 60 coming on Tua
Tagovailoa's third-quarter touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill that
pulled Miami within 17-14. But Tagovailoa struggled mightily
against a short-handed defense, completing only 10 of 28 passes
for 145 yards.
Miami (8-5) fell two games behind Buffalo in the AFC East.
Los Angeles controlled most of the first half, running 43 plays
to the Dolphins' 24. Yet the Chargers didn't score until the
second quarter, largely because a fourth-and-goal play from the
2 on their first drive didn't produce points.
But they took a 3-0 lead when Dicker converted a 33-yard field
goal 46 seconds into the second quarter, then made it 10-0 when
Herbert found Williams for a 10-yard touchdown pass at the 9:49
mark.
Miami got on the board with a weird touchdown just over a minute
later. Hill recovered a Jeff Wilson fumble and zipped 57 yards
to pull the Dolphins within three points.
But Los Angeles had the final say with a 13-play, 90-yard drive
that Austin Ekeler finished with a fourth-and-goal scoring run
from the 1 with 18 seconds remaining in the first half, giving
the Chargers a 17-7 lead at the break.
--Field Level Media
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