Miami Dolphins and the rest of the AFC East must face reality
Sunday night, some of us were given the pleasure of watching the greatest Super Bowl comeback in the history of the NFL, and possibly the best Super Bowl to date. Then again, we Dolphins fans watched the Falcons take a 28-3 lead, knowing deep down that there was always a chance for the impossible to happen… and it did.
There are two things that I took out of Sunday night’s instant classic. One, as long as Tom Brady is the quarterback of the New England Patriots – the Dolphins, Bills, and Jets will be afterthoughts in the AFC East.
What Tom Brady has been able to repeatedly do is absolutely phenomenal. I remember buying Giants gear in 2008 just to put it back on in 2012. I was the biggest Tom Brady hater out there. Sunday night I watched in awe. Brady, in my opinion, is irrefutably the greatest football player to ever live.
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Yes, I sound like a Patriots fan over here, but the reality is that year after year, Brady has been able to take rookie receivers and mediocre running backs to one 10-plus win season after another, and competing for Super Bowl after Super Bowl.
The even scarier thing is that I believe Bill Belichick is just as much of an integral part of that organization’s success over the past 400 years – it seems – as Tom Brady has been. That brings me to the second thing that I learned from Sunday night. As long as Bill Belichick is the head coach of the Patriots, they will continue to compete in the playoffs.
We saw early in the year how the Dolphins got shredded by Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett. The Patriots found a way to go 3-1 without Tom Brady to start the year. Is this an overreach? Maybe. But I think that Belichick and his infamous “Do Your Job” slogan are followed like religion in Foxborough.
Hopefully we get lucky and don’t have to deal with any more than two more seasons of Tom Brady’s dominance, but Sunday night he threw his way to his fifth Super Bowl, an unprecedented feat.
Tom Brady has more Super Bowl rings than 28 other teams and he knew Sunday night as the red and blue confetti fell, that he solidified himself as the greatest to ever play the game.
The Miami Dolphins have a very bright future. More so than the Jets and the Bills I would argue. But I believe that the Dolphins are going to have to wait until Mr. Brady steps aside to regain their once aqua and orange throne atop the AFC East.
Right now, that throne is Tom Brady’s, and I don’t think he plans on giving it up for the next few years.
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