I do 20 of the teams for the Tuesday and Wednesday products. Andy does the other 12. And things are very busy around here on Sunday-Monday-Tuesday. So when Wednesday rolls around, and there’s a little more time to work with, I like to go back and take a closer look at games to get a better idea of what teams are all about. You always have a better understanding of a team when you see its game in its entirety. So first up for the double-check this week are the Bills and Dolphins. Andy did the write-ups on these teams, so I hadn’t previously looked at this game.

Starting with the Bills:

Sammy Watkins. He hasn’t done much yet. He was shut out by the Colts, and just one catch in this game. But I think he’ll be fine. He’s definitely their No. 1 wide receiver. He had a nice 39-yard completion in this game early. On their second drive, they tried to get him the ball on what would have been a 25-yard touchdown. He caught it but was out of bounds. And that was it. He tweaked a calf and was in street clothes on the sideline in the second half. Looked fine but wasn’t playing. Great time to pick up Watkins in a trade, I think, because he can still be a top-20 receiver going forward. Maybe top 15.

Percy Harvin. With the Vikings and Seahawks, they were always trying to get Harvin the ball on quick throws. Just quick flanker screens where he could run after the catch. Here, for the first time in his career, he’s being used as a proper wide receiver, running downfield routes, and I like the look of it. I remember him catching a bomb for a touchdown early in the Colts game, and they tried to get him another one of those in this game that just missed. Hands and route-running ability seem fine. He’s definitely the No. 1 option if Watkins misses any time, and might be a viable No. 2. They’re still using him on a few end-arounds per game, and he’s back there for kickoffs as well. At some point this year, he’ll probably take one of those back for a touchdown. I liked him a lot more than I expected to.

Robert Woods. What if Watkins were to miss a game or two. Would Woods be a viable fill-in? I didn’t see it. Here was a game where Watkins was sidelined for the final three quarters. They passed for 277 yards and 3 TDs. Woods caught 4 passes for 38 yards. Chris Hogan played just as much and caught 3 passes for 42 yards, with a 38-yard touchdown.

LeSean McCoy. I guess his hamstring isn’t right. He’s not limping around or anything, but I saw them working on it during the first quarter, with the trainer trying to stretch it out. He didn’t look particularly fast or elusive on the field, carrying 11 times for 16 yards. He caught a touchdown pass. He didn’t jump out as being a guy trying to play hurt, but looked very ordinary. Word now is that they’ll hold him out for a game or two, hoping to get him back to 100 percent. Sounds like a good idea.

Karlos Williams. If McCoy sits out, then I think we can start thinking about Williams as a top-5 back when he’s filling in. He’s a big, fast dude, and he keeps busting loose for big gainers. He had a 15-25 yard touchdown in the opener against the Colts, and he sealed this game with a 41-yard score. He’s 6-foor-1 and 230 pounds, so a big back like Matt Jones in Washington. And at times it looks like people don’t want to tackle him. In this game, he consistently gained extra yards after the first guy hit him, often plowing for 5-10 extra yards.

Tyrod Taylor. In the preseason I was intrigued by his mobility. He might average 40 rushing yards per game, I figured. But he’s a lot better as a passer than I expected. In this game he didn’t run much at all – just 3 times for 12 yards – but completed 21 of 29 passes for 277 yards and 3 TDs. Many of his passes were of the vertical, downfield strike variety (the kind of throws that Alex Smith and Ryan Tannehill can’t or won’t make). With the run-pass dimension, he looks like he’ll probably be a top-10 fantasy quarterback this year.

Boobie Dixon. They’re still kicking around the notion that he could handle a lot of their short-yardage and goal-line work, I think. They used him on one third-and-one carry in this game. With McCoy presumably sitting this week, I would guess Dixon would get 5-10 touches as the No. 2 behind Williams. That might include a 1-yard touchdown. But he was pretty awful in this game, with his 5 carries going for minus-1 total yards.

Charles Clay. Came up big against his former team, with 5 catches for 82 yards and a touchdown. Can’t believe how bad the tackling was on his touchdown – was like watching a flag football game in a PE class at a middle school.

For the Dolphins:

Ndamukong Suh. The reality is setting in that the Dolphins may have made the biggest mistake of the offseason when they signed him to the largest contract ever given to a non-quarterback. He looks like just a guy out there, and they’ve committed $60 million in guaranteed money to him. Not sure if they’re not using him right, or if this is a case of a player losing motivation after winning the PowerBall. Right now it looks like a disaster. Miami has some talented individuals, but that’s a bottom-10 defense right now. They’ve struggled against the run in every game.

Ryan Tannehill. Speaking of bad contracts, the Dolphins signed Tannehill to a big extension in the offseason, including $45 million in guaranteed money, and I’m guessing they’ll probably want to get out of that deal. I just don’t have much confidence he’s ever going to develop into one of the top 20 quarterbacks in the league. He can’t seem to throw deep, and too many suspect decision. Not an awful quarterback, but not a guy you want to be paying big money.

In this game, the Dolphins used mostly spread formations, with Tannehill firing short balls all over the place. The Patriots used a similar kind of game plan a week ago and shredded the Bills. In this game, it didn’t work at all for Tannehill. Comically in the second half of this game, Tannehill set a team record with 160 straight attempts without an interception. Then he threw 3 picks in his next 13 throws, including one returned for a touchdown.

On Miami’s first drive, it ended with Tannehill special. He sent a short ball at Greg Jennings at the line of scrimmage. Jennings had a guy right on him, and no chance of somehow picking up 5 more yards to pick up the first drive. And Jennings dropped it anyway. A double fail. Miami had the ball seven times in the first half, with 4 punts and 3 interceptions. Ugly.

The game ended with Tannehill throwing 7 straight incompletions inside the 10.

Miami running game. The Dolphins have no ability to run the ball. They don’t have a fullback, and their main tight end (Jordan Cameron) is really just another wide receiver. There’s no physical component in this offense. They ran for 102 yards in this game, which seems reasonable enough. But 56 of the yards came on the final drive of the game, when they kept running balls. They ignored the run for the entire, then finally ran it 7 times on their last drive. Whatever.

Miami had a first-and-goal at the 2 in the third quarter of this game and never even gave a run look. They stuck in their spread formations and threw incompletions on four straight plays.

Lamar Miller entered this game with an ankle injury, but he didn’t look hurt to me. He wasn’t limping, and he was still in the game late in the fourth quarter. They just didn’t use him much. Just 7 carries, and Jonas Gray seemed to play just as much in the first half. The Dolphins had just activated Gray, and I think he’s their No. 2 tailback now. I believe Damien Williams is more of a third-down back.

I consider Miami to be a bottom-5 running team until they show me otherwise.

Bill Lazor. Part of the problem here is the offensive coordinator. He came over from Philadelphia, and he was going to incorporate some of the same things Chip Kelly does. That was the theory, and the running plays look the same in style – the read-option looks. But there’s no tempo. There’s no hurry-up. And that’s a big part of the Kelly philosophy, trying to make defenses run and to tire them out. It looks like a disaster.

Jarvis Landry. He catches a ton of balls in this offense, working the short routes. Typical game for him in this one, with 8 catches going for only 67 yards. He also caught a 2-point conversion, and I saw them trying to get him the ball on a similar play at the goal line later. He’s also their punt returner, and he was back there for kickoffs for the first two thirds of this game.

Rishard Matthews. I noticed in the preseason that Matthews looked surprisingly good. Wait a minute, I remember thinking. Is this guy just as good as Greg Jennings and Kenny Stills? Thus far it’s playing out that way. Matthews scored in the opener at Washington, and now he’s gone over 100 yards two games in a row. Those guys seem to be out there a similar amount of time, but Matthews is getting more looks than those veterans. Especially Stills, who just doesn’t seem to get his number called. Jennings had maybe his worst game as a pro on this Sunday. He dropped 2 balls early. When they finally came back to him with a third throw (for a 10-yard gain) it was late in the fourth quarter. Matthews caught 6 passes for 113 yards and 2 TDs. His 46-yard touchdown, however, was kind of weird. The ball was so badly underthrown that the defensive back overran it and fell down. I don’t expect Matthews will be a top-40 receiver going forward. Too many different receivers involved, and this entire offense could be drastically reworked in the coming weeks.

DeVante Parker. The 14th pick of the draft, recall. I have pretty much written him off thus far. He missed most of the offseason after undergoing foot surgery, and they have a bunch of other wide receivers. But here I got to see him in meaningful action for the first time. I think he was out there for a series in the second quarter, and he played a bunch at the end. He caught 3 passes for 46 yards, and you can see that he’s bigger and more athletic than their other wide receivers. When they return from their bye in Week 5, I would expect he’ll be playing more and catching more than either Jennings or Stills, and he might move ahead of Matthews before long as well. There’s a reason they selected him in the first round. At the end of the game, they tried to get him the ball three times on throws into the end zone. I wasn’t writing down the exact results, but at least one of the throws was really poor.

Joe Philbin. In my eyes, the Dolphins have been the league’s most disappointing team thus far. They have talent, but there are scheme issues and the team doesn’t seem to have any fire. They were thoroughly outplayed at Washington in Week 1, and now they’ve lost to the Jaguars and Bills. Blown out in their home opener. Now they’re playing the Jets at Wembley. If they lose that one (and I think they will) I have to wonder if Philbin will still be their coach when they get back to the United States. If you’re going to fire a coach during the season, around a bye week is the time to pull the trigger. Maybe a new coach would give this team a much-needed spark.

—Ian Allan