10:04 PM ET
Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN
MIAMI -- The Miami Dolphins' pingpong tourney volition person to wait.
On the heels of a two-game losing streak, squad captains Tyreek Hill, Terron Armstead, Xavien Howard, Terron Armstead, Elandon Roberts and Jevon Holland decided the Dolphins' locker country needed to refocus successful mentation for Sunday's crippled against the Minnesota Vikings.
So they removed the centrally located array from the locker room.
Coach Mike McDaniel said helium was "pretty pumped" astir the decision, not needfully due to the fact that helium thought the array should beryllium removed, but due to the fact that it was an illustration of his captains taking ownership of the squad -- thing helium said helium challenges them to bash arsenic leaders.
"That, to me, is leadership. To me, enactment is acting, not talking," McDaniel said. "There's a clump of antithetic examples from those guys, and that's wherefore they're captains and that's wherefore I trust connected them, due to the fact that it's astir solving problems, not complaining astir them. They, collectively, arsenic a radical of players, wanted much clip concern during the week connected their jobs for Sunday.
"So alternatively of conscionable saying it, they did thing astir it."
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