MIAMI GARDENS — After three games in which the Miami Dolphins have allowed more than 30 points, defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver sent a clear, impassioned message at his Friday news conference.

The defense is going to change its attitude, and the key word in the change: Violence.

“All of our problems that we need to solve can be solved through violence,” Weaver said Friday. “Yeah, they want to legislate it out of the game. But we play defensive football. And in defensive football, at some point, you draw a line of sand and you say, ‘I’m going to set the edge. I’m going to stick my helmet under this guy’s chin, and I’m going to set the edge. I’m going to violently take the ball away.’ And that’s what we need to do.”

The Dolphins are last in scoring defense, 31st in third-down defense

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