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$100 million Ndamukong Suh remains ineffective, Miami loses third straight

There should be a lemon law for NFL free-agent contracts. If there was, you have to think the Miami Dolphins would be applying for a refund right about now.

After agreeing to give Ndamukong Suh $114 million over six years, believing he'd be a difference-maker for the defense, Miami has watched him make little to no impact through four games.

Though he wasn't the only Dolphins player to look listless in Sunday's 27-14 loss to the New York Jets in London, when you're making the kind of money he is, it's more noticeable. Suh had one impact play, a tackle for loss in the fourth quarter when the Dolphines were down 27-7. (His postgame news conference was a source of amusement for at least one onlooker.)

And he had yet another interaction with an opposing player that will have the NFL taking a closer look.

Boston Globe reporter Ben Volin caught this first-half play, in which Suh's foot made contact with Ryan Fitzpatrick's helmet after Fitzpatrick fell running out of bounds. I can't decide if it was intentional or not. What's your call?

That play aside, Suh isn't doing much to improve Miami's defense. Chris Ivory ran for a career-high 166 yards; the Jets rushed for 207 as a team. For the season, the Dolphins have given up 642 rushing yards. They came into the game ranked 31st in the league against the run.

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Miami won its opener against Washington but has gone 0-3 since. According to the Miami Herald's Armando Salguero, head coach Joe Philbin said after the game he isn't worried about his job status, and plans to keep Kevin Coyle as his defensive coordinator.

On Sunday morning, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported that Miami players have grown frustrated with Coyle, and held a closed-door meeting with the coordinator this past week, asking him to drop the complexities of his system and just let the players play.