MIAMI — The sky is not falling in South Florida, but it’s certainly gray.

The Miami Dolphins lost their first home game of the season Monday night in a 28-27 upset by the Tennessee Titans — a game in which they led by two touchdowns with less than four minutes remaining,

The Dolphins (9-4) are one game back of the Baltimore Ravens for the top seed in the AFC, and will earn the No. 1 seed if they win out. They’re also two games ahead of the Buffalo Bills in the AFC East, and could clinch the division as early as Week 16 with a win Sunday over the New York Jets (1 p.m., E.T., CBS) and a Bills loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

But for a team looking to exercise its demons from last season’s winless December, this loss felt like a step backward. With their most important regular season goals still attainable — winning the division and earning at least one home playoff game — the Dolphins can’t afford to let the emotions of this loss set them on a course in the wrong direction.

“Especially games like that, there’s a tangible amount of emotion that is derived from that,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said. “The way the game happened … it can really just take over. You go to bed with emotion, you wake up with emotion. I understand that, and I think that’s very valid for a bunch of people that care.

“Having said that, the objective, the main point is that you have to take that emotion and at some point you have to put it over here. … The point is to learn from it and get better. The point is to use it in some way, shape or form moving forward. We have to.”

McDaniel said his players met amongst themselves Tuesday as the process of unpacking Monday’s loss began.

So what is there to unpack?

Miami entered the game without three of its starting five offensive linemen, and lost a fourth when center Connor Williams tore the ACL in his left knee on its opening drive. That helps explain quarterback Tua Tagovailoa being pressured on 40% of his dropbacks and sacked five times.