The New England Patriots can clinch their 10th consecutive AFC East title with a victory or tie over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. And if the Patriots complete that decade of consecutive titles they would become the first NFL franchise ever to accomplish the feat.
Let that factoid marinate for a moment.
The Dolphins were dominant in the early 1970s but they won the AFC East only four consecutive times. The Buffalo Bills were the AFC’s best team in the early 1990s, but the Dolphins won division titles in 1992 and ‘94.
The Patriots have allowed no other division rival to sniff a division crown since Miami did it in 2008.