For about five minutes on Sunday, Jay Cutler and the Miami Dolphins’ offense looked like a thing of beauty. It was the first drive of the fourth quarter, consisting of six runs, four passes, and a touchdown pass to Jarvis Landry. The score put the ‘Fins up for good, moving them back to .500 with a 16–10 win over the Tennessee Titans.

If you just read that and didn’t see the game, you may think that things are just peachy in Miami right now. After all, there’s a lot worse places to be right now than 2–2 (ask the Giants).

But if you did see the game, you know that the Dolphins’ offense struggled for the third consecutive week. In fact, the touchdown detailed above was the only one they’ve scored since their first game (not counting the garbage-time TD against the Jets in Week 3). Of course, when a unit struggles like the Dolphins’ offense has, the first person to take blame is the starting quarterback.

Cutler, who came out of retirement just weeks before the regular season, took the brunt of Miami’s displeasure with chants of “We Want Moore” — a reference to back-up QB Matt Moore. The 10-play touchdown drive put a lid on things momentarily, but it’s clear the folks in South Beach are fed up.

Luckily, head coach Adam Gase has a good head on his shoulders and sees things with perspective. Matt Moore is not Jay Cutler and never will be. If he deserved the job, Jay Cutler would be calling games for Fox right now, not calling out plays in the huddle. Plus, the offensive struggles aren’t his fault, not by a longshot.

By the crumby-stat metric, blame needs to be spread around. For instance, starting tailback Jay Ajayi is averaging 2.9 yards per carry in their last three games, no single attempt going for more than 15 yards.

These things just go with the territory of being a starting quarterback in the NFL: all the love for success, all the flack for failure.

Per a Miami Herald report, Gase stuck up for his quarterback after Sunday’s game, saying that the offense would be fine under the right circumstance.

“If guys would do their job, catch the ball, block the right guys, (it would) give the quarterback a chance to do something.” He added that, “Jay’s way down on the list of things going wrong.”

Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald also noted in his post-game article that this is something Gase firmly believes in: sticking up for his guy. Salguero pointed to an example early last season when he stuck up for Ryan Tannehill during early offensive struggles.

It was Tannehill-or-bust then, Cutler-or-bust now.