Orchard Park, N.Y. -- Tyrod Taylor has killed the Dolphins since he became the Buffalo Bills' starting quarterback in 2015.
In five games against the Dolphins, Taylor has 1,232 passing yards, nine touchdowns and zero interceptions. He's completed just under 65-percent of his passes while running for 193 yards and two touchdowns. The last three games have come against Adam Gase's Dolphins, and the mere mention of Taylor's success elicits a groan.
"I'm aware," Gase said.
So what makes Taylor so successful against the Dolphins? This is, after all, the same defense that shut down Tom Brady a few weeks ago and has ranked near the middle of the pack in most pass defense categories this season. Taylor just seems to have their number.
"I think he's done a great job of, one, protecting the football," Gase said. "And I think he's done a great job where a lot of guys when they play our defensive front they do panic and those guys get to them. Where he's done a good job of staying in the pocket and when he does see a lane or he can get outside the pocket, he does it and he really hurts us when he does. Whether he runs it or they scramble drill us and we don't stay tight on the receiver and he gets us for a big play. I think his patience has just been really good against us, and he's not affected as much as some of the other guys that we've played with our pass rush. He just does a good job of kind of taking each play as it comes. If something bad is going on he finds a way to get out of it."
It doesn't hurt that LeSean McCoy and Charles Clay have both also had plenty of success against the Dolphins. McCoy has three touchdowns in two healthy games he's played against Gase, while Clay has 13 catches for 154 yards and two touchdowns in his last two games against the Dolphins.
"It's tough when you play a guy that's athletic and has a really good feel in the pocket and then he's hitting the receivers and running backs when we're playing him, it makes it extremely tough," Gase said. "When you've got the guy you've got in the backfield, it makes it even scarier because if he gets the ball to him and there's a lot of space that's when you have some issues.
"When you have possibly the best running back in football in the backfield and you have a quarterback who has hurt us the way he's hurt us, tight ends always have played well against us the last three times we've played them, it's a tough group to prepare for. You better know where Shady is all the time, because he can hurt you in a million different ways."