The Dolphins had 536 total yards last week — the most yards in a Week 1 game since Baltimore had 643 yards in 2019. QB Tua Tagovailoa is 4-0 in starts against the Patriots. Tagovailoa was the AFC Offensive Player of the Week after passing for 466 yards and three TDs against the Chargers.
Receiver A.J. Brown ranked fourth in the NFL with a career-high and franchise-record 1,496 receiving yards and had a career-high 88 catches and tied a career high with 11 TDs last season. DeVonta Smith had 95 catches for 1,196 yards and seven TDs in 2022. He and Brown were the only pair of teammates with 85 or more catches and 1,100 receiving yards last season.
A New Jersey man who posed as a former New England Patriots player in order to buy and sell Super Bowl rings that he claimed were gifts to Tom Brady’s family was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison. Scott V. Spina Jr., 25, of Roseland was sentenced by a judge in Southern California's Orange County. In 2017, Spina bought a Patriots’ 2016 Super Bowl championship ring from a Patriots player who then left the team.