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(SportsNetwork.com) - Theres a subtle change that occurs once a team expects to be above .500 in the NFL. No longer are wins just enough. Instead, even 14- point wins are parsed for bad moments. That could now be the case for the Miami Dolphins, who improved to 4-3 with a 27-13 defeat of in-state rival Jacksonville, but have spent at least some of the subsequent week - while preparing for a visit from cross-country foe San Diego - explaining why the toppling of the Jaguars wasnt exactly a highlight reel. The Dolphins scored twice on interception returns against Jacksonville, a happy defensive occurrence that bailed out a largely impotent offensive unit that went three-and-out on its first three series, had just three first downs in the first 30 minutes and scored 13 points against a team with one prior victory that had already surrendered 33 or more points four times. Miami has won two straight, but is nonetheless just 25th in the league in passing with a weekly average of 231.3 yards - a number thats got wide receiver Mike Wallace, in the second year of a lucrative deal he signed when exiting Pittsburgh as a free agent, irritated. He caught two passes for 59 yards against the Jaguars and failed to score for the first time since Week 4. Its frustrating. It has got to change, he said. Were not going to get nowhere like that. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who completed 16-of-29 passes for 196 yards, a touchdown and an interception, agreed. He, by the way, has been sacked seven times in two games and has been curiously ineffective at home this season, completing barely 55 percent of his throws for 627 yards, five TDs and three interceptions in three games. It has to be better, he said. We have to get this corrected. Still, Miami has won the past seven matchups in the series that have occurred in South Florida, dating back to a classic divisional playoff game in 1982. Extending that streak, given Tannehills recent difficulties, could be a product of a ground game thats churning out 138 yards per week to rank sixth in the league. The Chargers have been gashed for 293 rush yards in losing two straight. You have to be able to understand that its not all bad when you lose and its not all good when you win, San Diego linebacker Dwight Freeney said. Its about the team that is standing at the end. We are going to play a Dolphins team that does a lot of things. To be fair, the Chargers have shown signs of doing a lot of things, too. San Diego lost in Week 1, but then reeled off five straight victories before skidding back to 5-3 with consecutive losses to Kansas City and Denver. Quarterback Philip Rivers averaged better than 300 yards and had 14 touchdowns to a single interception in the five-game skein, but has been picked off twice while the average has dipped to 228.5 yards against the Chiefs and Broncos. In two starts at Miami, his completion percentage is eight points lower than his career average. The Dolphins, too, are best in the league at limiting yards per pass attempt - 10.2. This is a 16-game season, its a 16-round fight and weve won five and lost three, Rivers said. Its one big game is the way I see it. Weve had a couple rounds where weve got knocked around a little bit. We have to regroup and try to go get round number nine at Miami. San Diegos defense could use the same rallying cry. The Chargers have allowed 11 more points and 105 more yards, on average, across the last three games than they had in their initial five. And theyll enter the game with the Dolphins perhaps without the services of cornerback Jason Verrett and linebacker Jahleel Addae, both of whom are questionable. Addae suffered a concussion after a pair of hits last week, the second of which saw him convulsing after helmet-to-helmet contact. It hasnt been our best ball. I know we are kind of banged up, Freeney said. But this is the NFL and the other team doesnt care. So we have to find a way to somehow put our best product out there. WHAT TO WATCH FOR Lock Up the Gates Canton-bound tight end Antonio Gates is having another spectacular season for the Chargers - 32 catches, 417 yards and nine touchdowns - so bottling him up will be a task for Miami. His shadow for the day could be safety Rashad Jones, though it wouldnt be shocking to see the Dolphins employ a cadre of Gates-related blankets including linebackers Kelvin Sheppard and Koa Misi, too. Beating the Replacements For a funk-enduring quarterback like Tannehill, the matchup with the Chargers is well-timed. San Diego could be without a pair of starting cornerbacks in the aforementioned Verrett and Brandon Flowers, whos sustained a concussion. Whether its them or someone else, a major challenge will be making sure this isnt the week that the Tannehill-Wallace connection finds its sea legs. OVERALL ANALYSIS For all the issues each team has faced, theyve both got a lot of weapons, too, and its no accident that theyre a combined 9-6 through 15 games. Expect both Rivers and Tannehill to return to something approaching form, and anticipate the game to come down to a late-stage situation in which one guy makes a decisive play. The guess here is that its Rivers and that the Chargers will escape on the road. Sports Network predicted outcome: Chargers 24, Dolphins 20 Adidas Superstar Sverige . 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Adidas Falcon Rea .Brothers B.J. and Justin Upton each homered and had an outfield assist, and the Braves held on for a 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night.ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - The Indianapolis Colts had no answer for Julius Thomas in the season opener, when Denvers big tight end scored a trio of touchdowns in single coverage against two linebackers and a safety.Afterward, Colts coach Chuck Pagano called him a monster and a matchup nightmare.Yet, when the teams meet again in the playoffs this weekend, its more likely the Thomas giving the Colts headaches will be Demaryius, not Julius.The Broncos star receiver (whos no relation to their standout tight end) overcame a slow start this season to score 11 TDs and set a franchise single-season record with 1,619 yards receiving on 111 catches.I cant be too excited, Demaryius Thomas said. What would make it better, we go out and win the Super Bowl because you cant take that from me but you can always take a record. So Im excited, but weve still got some work to do.Thomas provided the size and strength to go with the speed of Emmanuel Sanders, who set career highs with 101 catches for 1,404 yards and nine TDs in his first year in Denver.Both of them played through injuries. Thomas had a bum ankle and a jammed finger by the time the season ended and Sanders was dealing with a bad back from, a residual effect of all those hard hits from safeties.Those are tough guys, Peyton Manning said. Two outstanding years. Emmanuel shouldve made the Pro Bowl, in my opinion, with the statistics he put up and Demaryius has been a marked man from defences. To still have the year that he did ... both those guys are outstanding players.Meanwhile, Julius Thomas parlayed his three-TD performance in Denvers 31-24 win over the Colts in the opener to become the first tight end in NFL history to score a dozen touchdowns in back-to-back seasons.It sure looked like hed challenge Rob Gronkowskis NFL record of 17 touchdowns by a tight end set in 2011, too, when he hauled in his 12th TD on Nov. 9 against Oakland.He hasnt scored since.A sprained lower left ankle at St. Louis the following week knocked him out of that game early and helped keep the Broncos out of the red zone in a stunning loss that ultimately cost Denver the No. 1 seed in the AFC.It also led tto a drastic decline in red zone efficiency and in the way opponents defended Manning.ddddddddddddWithout having to worry about the star tight end, opponents played plenty of coverages with a single safety high, bringing the other down to clog up the intermediate crossing routes. That forced Manning to throw more outside the numbers, where he isnt always as accurate.Thomas kept insisting this injury wasnt anything like the right ankle sprain he sustained in 2011 that essentially cost him two full seasons before his breakout last year.He missed a month of games, however, and during that time the Broncos offence morphed from one predicated on the pass to one based on a grinding ground game.While Demaryius Thomas was capping another stellar season, Julius Thomas returned to action for the final three games but caught just three passes for 63 yards.Any time youre not able to do the things that you want to do and you know you can do, its frustrating, he said. But theres not much you can do about it. Just try to find a way to do all you can.He welcomed the Broncos bye last week that they earned as the conferences second seed.It was a big week for me. It was good to get some rest, Julius Thomas said. Every doctor will tell you the most important thing is rest, but its tough to do in the middle of the season. So I got a little bit of time to stay off it and get some treatment on it. It went well.Which team advances to the AFC championship on Sunday could come down to whether the Colts have an answer for Thomas this time — and whether hes the disruptor he was over the first half of the season or the non-factor he was down the stretch.I would imagine theyll do some things a little bit differently, said Thomas, who wouldnt mind seeing a linebacker or safety across from him again.Playing against man is probably one of the more fun parts of the game, he said. I dont know what theyre going to do. If you find out, just leave me a little note. But its going to be exciting. Regardless of what they do, well have a good plan. And its up to us to execute it.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '