MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins' playoff hopes are not in their hands, but they did their part with a gritty win over San Francisco on Sunday. Coach Mike McDaniel knows that's not enough, and his team will need to do it two more times to even have a shot at making the postseason for the third straight year. “I was just proud of this effort and proud of the guys’ effort in general,” McDaniel said. “And that gives you a chance to win December football. Regardless, unless you’re playing in February, you also have to get adept at experiencing that, going through that, having some momentum and then going back and applying it to the next opponent, because no one cares about one win in December or January realistically. It’s about accumulating those.” Miami (7-8) is on the bubble for a wild-card spot along with Indianapolis (7-8) and Cincinnati (7-8). Even if the Dolphins win their remaining two games, they'll need help from other teams to get in. In one scenario, Miami would make the playoffs with two wins and two losses each by Denver (9-6) and the Los Angeles Chargers (9-6). “This team, we know when we do it well, we can do it very well,” defensive tackle Calais Campbell said. “We know that our chances are slim, but there’s a lot of fight left. And if we have a chance, we’re going to fight for it.” Miami closed out Sunday's game with a strong fourth quarter in all three phases. The offense converted on all three of its third-down attempts. Running back De'Von Achane had 93 of his 190 scrimmage yards in the quarter, including a 50-yard rushing score that put the game out of reach. Jason Sanders nailed a 48-yard field goal just before the two-minute warning. And the defense intercepted Brock Purdy on one of the Niners' last-ditch efforts. “I think that was something that we needed to see as a team together,” quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said. “You could see in all three phases that we were able to play the complementary football that we said we wanted to play. The defense giving the offense opportunities to go put points on the board. Then when there were times where we didn’t do what we wanted to do offensively, the defense held.” With both of the Dolphins' final games on the road, they'll need to play better than they have in away games for much of the season. Miami is 5-3 at home, its fifth straight home winning record, but the Dolphins are 2-5 on the road. McDaniel expressed confidence that those home efforts can travel in this final stretch. “When you’re trying to play football so that in the inevitable situation that you face every season,” McDaniel said, “an elimination game, whether it’s to get in the playoffs or it’s in the playoffs, you want to be tooled with a team that can succeed or execute in those types of situations.” Miami's run game finally got going with 166 yards. It was the Dolphins' first time topping 100 yards rushing since Week 9. Achane led the charge with 120 yards. His 50-yard rushing score was Miami's longest run this season. The Dolphins moved the ball well but scored touchdowns on just one of three trips to the red zone. Sanders. He was 5 for 5 on field goals with a long of 54 yards, and 2 for 2 on extra points. Sanders has made 23 consecutive field goals and is 11 of 13 on kicks of 50-plus yards. He's one of two kickers, alongside Dallas' Brandon Aubrey, who have made a field goal in every game this season. WR Tyreek Hill. The All-Pro receiver caught just 3 of 7 targets for 29 yards and a touchdown. He had a third-down drop on the Dolphins' opening drive and dropped a potential touchdown later in the game. The NFL's receiving leader last year is averaging just 55.6 yards per game and has only two 100-plus yard receiving games this season. WR Jaylen Waddle missed the game because of a knee injury. ... CB Kendall Fuller (knee) and LB Jordyn Brookes (quad/knee) both went down late in the second half. 76 receptions, 802 yards — Both single-season Dolphins records for a tight end, which Jonnu Smith broke with six catches for 62 yards on Sunday. The Dolphins will continue their efforts to sneak into the playoffs when they play at Cleveland (3-12) on Sunday. They'll need to beat the Browns and the New York Jets (4-11) in their regular-season finale to give themselves a chance. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL
NEW DELHI: The appointments committee of the cabinet on Wednesday named six new secretaries as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle across ministries. ET Year-end Special Reads It's all Gucci for Indians' luxury craving even as economy shows wrinkles Investing in 2025: Will domestic funds continue to counter FPI sell-offs amid rising valuations? 2024 exposed the underbelly of India's Silicon Valley These include 1992 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer Arunish Chawla , who has been appointed secretary, Department of Revenue, ministry of finance . He will also hold the additional charge of secretary, ministry of culture. Chawla is at present secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals in the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers. Amit Agarwal , a 1993 batch Chhattisgarh cadre IAS officer, will be succeeding Chawla as secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals. Agarwal is currently CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India. Rachna Shah, a 1991 batch Kerala cadre IAS officer, will be the new secretary, Department of Personnel and Training in the ministry of personnel, public grievances & pensions. Shah is currently secretary, ministry of textiles. Neelam Shami Rao, a 1992 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer, will succeed Shah as secretary, ministry of textiles. Rao is currently secretary, National Commission for Minorities, ministry of minority affairs. Sanjay Sethi, a 1992 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer, will take over as secretary, National Commission for Minorities, from Rao. 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First treatment in 50 years for serious asthma attacks is ‘game-changer’Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They often have strong opinions about whether bezels should be bidirectional. They can cite the differences between ETA and Sellita movements. They will happily preach the gospel of microadjust clasps and guilloche dials. ET Year-end Special Reads It's all Gucci for Indians' luxury craving even as economy shows wrinkles Investing in 2025: Will domestic funds continue to counter FPI sell-offs amid rising valuations? 2024 exposed the underbelly of India's Silicon Valley And for years - decades, really - they formed a fairly unified front when it came to their contempt for quartz watches. Unlike mechanical timepieces, which are like Rube Goldberg machines in miniature, quartz watches are essentially powered by an electronic circuit. To purists, this felt like cheating. "There was this idea that quartz was somehow diametrically opposed to the nobility of mechanical Swiss watchmaking," said Andrew McUtchen, founder of Time & Tide Watches, an online publication based in Australia. "But time has healed some of those wounds - pardon the pun." No longer carrying as much of a stigma, quartz has found an audience among collectors who, until recently, never could have fathomed slapping anything other than mechanical watches onto their wrists. But thanks to a growing emphasis on design and technological advancement, many brands - big and small - are pushing quartz forward. Grand Seiko , for example, has an exceptional quartz movement known as the Caliber 9F. Citizen has the light-powered Caliber 0100, which the company says is accurate to within one second a year. And TAG Heuer has the Aquaracer Solargraph, a popular model that was first released in 2022. The brand recently released a limited-edition iteration in collaboration with Time & Tide. 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He still wears automatic watches about "90% of the time," he said, but quartz has its advantages. "You can reel them off," McUtchen said. "The price, the accuracy, the convenience and, in our case, the technical wizardry of a watch that's powered by sunlight." Unlike mechanical watches, which will stop running unless they are wound or worn (automatic watches have a rotor that will wind the movement with wrist motion), quartz watches will run for months or even years. Quartz watches also tend to be robust: All of those delicate mechanical parts have essentially been replaced by a battery, a circuit board and a sliver of quartz, which oscillates with an electric charge. Only now, perhaps, is the watch industry moving beyond the psychological trauma of the so-called quartz crisis of the 1970s and early '80s, when Swiss watchmaking cratered after the introduction of battery-powered watches that were both less expensive and more accurate than mechanical watches. McUtchen went so far as to describe the feeling toward quartz as outright "hostility." But the warming reception was recently reinforced in a modest way by Matthew Zillmann, 25, founder of the Australian microbrand Hz Watches, which has been a surprise hit among wristwatch reviewers. Hz is the abbreviation for hertz, a unit of frequency. Quartz, for example, vibrates at a frequency of 32,768 hertz. And if you purchase one of Zillmann's watches, you will always know that because the number is printed on the bottom of the dial. The caseback also features the brand logo in the shape of a circuit board. "With quartz being our DNA and our brand identity, we didn't want to shy away from it," Zillmann said. Andrea Furlan, lead designer and co-founder of Furlan Marri, an independent brand based in Geneva, recalled preparing for the brand's first release via a Kickstarter campaign about three years ago. Furlan mentioned to some watch enthusiasts that he and his co-founder, Hamad Al Marri, were planning on using a meca-quartz movement , which uses a quartz base to drive a mechanical chronograph. "They all said, 'Oh, no, I would never wear a quartz on my wrist,'" Furlan said. But once Furlan began telling them about the meca-quartz movement's history - high-end Swiss brand Jaeger-LeCoultre developed its own version in the 1980s - he sensed that he was converting some skeptics. It helped that Furlan Marri's first chronograph was elegant, with a refined case and sophisticated details on the dial. In other words, it did not look like a typical quartz watch. It looked expensive. Sure enough, the Kickstarter campaign was a major success. In 30 days, Furlan said, the brand sold about 4,000 watches at $350 each. A few months later, Furlan Marri won an award from the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve, the watch industry's most prestigious prize committee. At Hz, Zillmann has heard from customers who are buying their first watches but also from enthusiasts who are in the third and final phase of a journey that resonates with him. "You start in quartz," Zillmann said, "and then you get drawn toward your mechanicals and automatics, and then you kind of realise that quartz is a bit more accurate and affordable." (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )
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