First of all, anyone who didn’t enjoy watching New England’s Bill Belichick finally having to coach without a quarterback — somewhere Joe Philbin stopped cleaning a locker Sunday to smile — didn’t fully enjoy this game.
Second of all, anyone who didn’t also relish officially knocking the Patriots out of the playoffs for the second time in two decades — meaning in a timeline of six fired Dolphins coaches and 20 failed quarterbacks — doesn’t appreciate the long, long, (long) arc of payback. OK, minor payback considering the pain. But you take what you get.
You knew the Patriots offense was bad entering Sunday.