That’s the point of the NFL schedule we’ve reached, as the best teams in the league jockey in the playoffs to determine which squads advance to the conference championship games, and then the Super Bowl, which will be played in Tampa on February 7.
Here are some things the rebuilding Miami Dolphins should takeaway from the first round of the NFL playoffs as they look to continue try to turn themselves into a perennial contender:
The old adage is that defense and running games win in the postseason, and the first round didn’t dispel that as a myth.