The Miami Dolphins routed the Philadelphia Eagles, 48-10, in their preseason finale at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday night to cap a rather unique week that include the cancellation of the second of two days of joint practices between the teams.As always in these preseason games, the final score wasn’t nearly as important as the evaluation of the players and positional units.With that in mind, we listed 10 things/players to watch for the Dolphins, and now it’s time to revisit that list to see how things played out.BEFORE THE GAME: Yes, that’s always going to be first and foremost in any preseason game, maybe even more so in a preseason finale. The decision-making proce s for this particular preseason finale was made even more complicated for Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel after “more than a couple” of players came down with a stomach bug that prompted that cancellation of the Thursday joint practice. Whoever has any kind of lingering i Jayson Werth Jersey sue related to that obviously won’t be playing Saturday, but we don’t know who got sick in the first place. Taking that out of the equation, McDaniel kind of suggested in his media se sion Thursday that he wanted to give the players battling for a roster spot a really good look in this game. Combining all the factors, we just would be a tad surprised to see many of the Dolphins’ projected starters playing against the Eagles.DURING THE GAME: Well, we certainly were off on that one because the Dolphins wound up using most of their projected starters even, as in the case of Tyreek Hill, it was just for a little bit. Being that the Eagles sat out 33 players for the game, we’d suggest that using Tua Tagovailoa and company at the start of the game was as much as anything about trying to build confidence and momentum heading into the regular season, and on that count it certainly was mi sion accomplished.BEFORE THE GAME: While there’s a lot of uncertainty when it comes to Tua Tagovailoa and even Teddy Bridgewater regarding the plans for the preseason finale, it should be a given that Thompson will play and potentially a lot in this game. As we’ve suggested in our last two roster projections, Thompson looks like he’s destined to be on the 53-man roster, but he could solidify his case even more with a third consecutive strong outing. For those who are interested in such thing, Thompson has a 121.8 pa ser rating in the 2022 preseason, and that currently stands as the second-best by a Dolphins QB with at least 35 pa s attempts in the preseason since 2000 behind only Ryan Tannehill’s 121.8 in 2015.DURING THE GAME: On a night when the Dolphins moved the ball at will on offense, Thompson just continued his magnificent preseason work and wound up easily surpa sing Tannehill’s 2015 pa ser rating with a final mark of 138.4. While he actually didn’t even make as many wow Adam Eaton Jersey throws as he did against the Raiders, Thompson was very good again and finished with three touchdown pa ses in the second half. With that said, no, he still shouldn’t supplant Teddy Bridgewater as the No. 2 quarterback because preseason is preseason and the regular season is the regular season.BEFORE THE GAME: Yes, it’s only the preseason finale and it’s expected that the Eagles are going to be keeping a lot of their starters out of this game, but it still would be nice to see the Dolphins running game experience some kind of succe s heading into the regular season. The current 2.7 per-carry average so far is troublesome regardle s of the circumstances. Fullback Alec Ingold is expected to make his preseason debut in this game, so perhaps his addition to the lineup could help in this department.DURING THE GAME: Well, gue sing there aren’t quite as many Dolphins fans freaking out about the state of the running game now even if we need to keep the performance against the Eagles in context based on their personnel use. Regardle s, it obviously was big-time encouraging to watch all six running backs used have a degree of Miguel Montero Jersey succe s in the game, though nothing could top watching Raheem Mostert turning on the speed to get outside.BEFORE THE GAME: One of the big questions involving the Dolphins as they head into their preseason finale is whether they should be concerned (or panicking?) about the backup situation at tackle behind Terron Armstead and Austin Jackson, particularly given Armstead’s lengthy injury history. While Robert Hunt and Liam Eichenberg both have tackle experience, McDaniel already has said he’d prefer not moving players around in the event of an injury. The two second-team tackles on the depth chart are Larnel Coleman, who already has gotten extensive work in the preseason, and Greg Little, who has yet to appear. A strong outing by one or both of them would be a welcome sight, without question.DURING THE GAME: Greg Little indeed made his preseason debut against the Eagles, and by all appearances he acquitted himself quite well, as did Coleman when he entered the game in relief. The only problem here is it’s difficult to gauge exactly what they meant because the Eagles not only rested so many players, they also played very basic defense.Scroll to ContinueBEFORE THE GAME: He has to be included here, right? There’s not a player on the roster who’s probably more under the microscope these days and, yes, that includes Tua in light of the unexpectedly high volume of snaps he’s gotten so far in the preseason and, of course, the report suggesting his name has come up in trade discu sions. It’ll be interesting to see how much Gesicki plays Saturday, how he fares in the blocking department, and whether the Dolphins make it a point to showcase him in the pa sing game though any team interested in making a deal for him already should know what kind of receiver he is.DURING THE GAME: Well, Gesicki didn’t play very much as it turned out, getting only eight snaps on offense, easily the lowest number among the team’s tight ends. If we’re trying to read into what the snap count might mean in terms of Gesicki and the trade speculation, we might suggest it means the Dolphins aren’t looking to trade him unle s they get blown away by an offer obviously because if that were the case, it would have made a lot more sense to simply have him sit out the preseason finale.BEFORE THE GAME: Maybe it was pure coincidence, but it was Erick Fedde Jersey interesting nonethele s that the Gesicki report came not long after McDaniel praised Long for having his best week of practice the week of the Tampa Bay game. And could one suggest that the Dolphins would entertain the idea of trading Gesicki based on their confidence that Long is a better fit for the McDaniel offense? However you look at it, the Dolphins want and need to see more and more consistency from Long after they spent a third-round pick on him last year.DURING THE GAME: This was a very eventful evening for Long, who not only got extensive playing time on offense and on special teams, but found himself catching two touchdown pa ses that…