It was the Los Angeles Rams, not the Miami Dolphins, who looked like a fish out of water on Monday night as L.A. falls to end its three-game winning streak.

The Dolphins beat the Rams and kept their slim playoff hopes alive as they scrapped their way to one of their timeliest, and ugliest, victories in the coach Mike McDaniel era.

The Miami Dolphins played at the Los Angeles Rams on "Monday Night Football." Miami needed a win to keep alive any longshot hope at an AFC playoff berth, and the Dolphins got it. It was Dolphins 23, Rams 15.