From the Press Room: Steelers at Dolphins

Holding down your spot: The Dolphins' 16-10 victory over the Steelers on Sunday night included Miami scoring a combined 13 points on its first three possessions and three thereafter, none in the second half.

Inside linebacker Myles Jack maintained that's another indication of the direction in which the defense is heading.

"One we kinda simmered down, figured out what they were doing, made some adjustments and kinda got a better hold of that," Jack said. "I really like how our defense weathered the storm towards the end. Obviously, you wanna start out better and try to put the (Steelers') offense in better scenarios. But I like how we picked it up, nobody got mad, nobody got down, just continued playing. And even throughout the third and fourth quarter, crunch time, I felt like defensively we really strapped up.

"We're jelling together at the right time, everything's coming together. Guys are figuring out where they need to be. Coaches, I think they're getting a better feel of what we got. And I feel like it's all coming together at the same time. We're a special defense. We're capable of a lot of things.

"Even scenarios like when we get thrown out at midfield, I think there's like two or three minutes left in the game, everything looks bad. We all run out there, we're all looking at each other like, 'It's not over, we're about to get this stop and put our offense back on the field.' The confidence, that's the main thing, everybody can trust everybody and know that everybody's gonna hold down their spot. You just focus on your job, that's when special things happen."

Jack was asked if his teammates were likewise encouraged, even at 2-5.

"I hope so, man, because I feel like the sky's the limit," he said. "We got a pretty cool opponent next week that we gotta go to against (undefeated) Philly. It'd be nice to spoil them and get this thing on the road, get our bye week going and get our minds right.

"I think the sky's the limit. I see a lot of positive things from our offense. I see a lot of positive things from our defense. I think we can be a really good team."

"I feel like, for one, it's early in the year. You could say we're six or seven plays from our record looking completely different but at the end of the day we still got 10 games left. We could put a stop, kinda contain (Tampa Bay quarterback) Tom Brady, then come back to this dynamic offense where you got (wide receiver Tyreek) Hill, (wide receiver Jaylen) Waddle, (running back Raheem) Mostert and we're giving 'em 16 points, I feel like there's definitely something to build off. So I'm excited. I'm not quittin.'"