How panicked are the Miami Dolphins fans following their Week 1 shellacking to the Indianapolis Colts? According to Colts cornerback Xavien Howard, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was in “panic mode” on Sunday. And, according to a new infographic from Sports Betting AG, the Dolphins’ fans are too.
The company’s survey and data says that Dolphins fans are the No. 1 most apoplectic fan base in the entire NFL.
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NFL Fan Base Panic Data is based on negative posts on X, with the Miami Dolphins leading the way
According to a company spokesperson, Sports Betting AG collected data from the X platform based on how many tweets were doom-and-gloom regarding individual NFL teams.
“The graphic above is based on X data from Sunday evening until now (including the Monday Night game), tracking “panic” tweets from each NFL fan base,” Ryan Taylor said in an email. “For example, “The Chiefs are cooked,” “The Chiefs are screwed,” “The Chiefs are terrible,” “The Chiefs time is over.” “The Chiefs suck,” The Chiefs defense is horrible,” “Andy Reid should retire,” etc. It should be noted that all these tweets also have fan base identifiers, like #ChiefsKingdom.
“Even the teams who won on Sunday will have their fair share of “doomers,” – i.e. “We shouldn’t have won,” “We played terrible,” “Our offense sucks,” “Our defense sucks,” “Change quarterbacks,” “Fire the coach,” “We got lucky,” “We won’t win next week playing like that,” etc. Overall, over 120,000 tweets were tracked.”
The full results are as follows:
Dolphins — 9,064
Giants — 8,750
Lions — 7,890
Chiefs — 7,120
Bears — 6,644
Browns — 6,420
Ravens — 6,046
Cowboys — 5,713
Jets — 5,549
Seahawks — 5,133
Texans — 4,885
Falcons — 4,662
Saints — 4,466
Patriots — 4,269
Titans — 4,001
Panthers — 3,762
Broncos — 3,504
Cardinals — 3,276
Commanders — 3,027
Buccaneers — 2,787
Raiders — 2,616
Vikings — 2,422
Steelers — 2,273
Rams — 2,123
49ers — 1,894
Chargers — 1,726
Jaguars — 1,327
Bengals — 1,113
Colts — 933
Packers — 781
Eagles — 642
Bills — 532
Maybe Dolphins fans spend more time on X than others?
Miami Dolphins QB was in “panic mode” according to Colts’ defender
Howard is a former teammate of Tagovailoa. He was released by the Dolphins some 18 months before he signed with the Colts last month. Basically, Howard knows Tua well.
Howard said after Sunday’s 33-8 stomping that they could see that Tua looked rattled on his way to two interceptions and a lost fumble.
“We knew the guy, he gets the ball out pretty quick,” Howard said. “And once we take away his first read, I feel like it’s panic mode after that. And it showed yesterday. We took away his first read and he was trying to get rid of the ball real quick.”
“I barely could sleep the night before the game because I was just thinking about, like, how I’m going to feel playing against my former team. And I went out there, [put] my feelings to the side and kept it about the business, and we took care of business.”
Howard recovered Tua’s fumble and said that it did mean a lot to him to play well against his former team.
“I wanted to put that out there,” he said. “But as a team, we got the [win]. We definitely didn’t want them to [score] any points, but they got eight points. We definitely wanted a shutout.”
It sounds like the Dolphins fans are as uncomfortable as Tua is in the pocket.
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