The Miami Dolphins lost for the sixth time in seven games on Sunday, falling 30-27 to the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium.

We rank and analyze the five biggest and most important plays in the game.

Safety guard Jordan Poyer said after the game that he thought he made a free throw to Keon Coleman on an incomplete third down that became a first down when he was flagged for unnecessary roughness, but replays clearly showed helmet-to-helmet contact. While this will sometimes be missed by officials or not called — as was the case in the Seattle-Rams game when a similar flag against the Seahawks was picked up when the replay showed helmet-to-helmet contact — it will also draw more of a flag. often than not. And it was a grinder because instead of Buffalo having to punt from its own 31 and the Dolphins getting the ball back with a chance to win. The drive was kept alive. Poyer said he was just trying to play with the ball, but it was off target and the intention no longer mattered.

Maybe this deserves to be the best play because you just don’t see 61-yard field goals very often, especially from kickers who have been as inconsistent as Tyler Bass has this season. But in what could be seen as proof that anything that can go wrong for Miami will go wrong, Bass absolutely crushed the kick, leaving him plenty of room.

The Dolphins had very little margin for error against a team that was simply better than them, and they lost that margin when Raheem Mostert fumbled for the second time in three weeks, this time when Taron Johnson ripped the ball away from him . The Dolphins led 10-6 and were in Buffalo territory on that first drive of the second half before the fumble occurred, and the game became a back-and-forth affair from that point on- there instead of being able to continue playing with a lead.

The Dolphins gave up three touchdowns in the second half, but the second came after they appeared to have stopped on third-and-goal from the seven-yard line, only to see cornerback Siran Neal flagged for defensive holding . The replay clearly showed Neal pulling on Khalil Shakir’s jersey, although the DBs got away with it at times. Neal sat out on that play and Buffalo scored two plays later to take a 27-20 lead.

The first touchdown of the second half came on fourth down from the one yard line when a stop clearly would have made a huge difference at that point and perhaps in the outcome. Cornerback Kendall Fuller had former Dolphins receiver Mack Hollins in coverage, but found himself a few steps behind after Hollins crossed the field into the end zone.