Patriots have one hope to keep from falling hopelessly behind Bills and Dolphins

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The Buffalo Bills don’t fear the New England Patriots. And why should they? The last two times the teams played, the Bills scored a combined 80 points, didn’t punt, watched their quarterback throw eight touchdown passes without an interception and easily dispatched the team that once dominated the AFC East.

The Miami Dolphins don’t fear the New England Patriots. They’ve won four of the last five against New England, including a sweep last season. And they just traded former No. 1 receiver DeVante Parker to the Patriots and even threw in a fifth-round draft pick this year so that New England would be more likely to take Parker’s salary.

All this so they could get back a third-round pick in 2023.

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New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones (10) celebrates after a touchdown by Rhamondre Stevenson during the second half of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

So what the Dolphins were basically saying in this trade was, "Take our player and a pick this year, and we still think we’re better off than you. We can wait a full year to get a return on this trade."

And there’s a chance both the Bills and Dolphins have miscalculated. (Yeah, not likely both have.)

But this offseason suggests both have indeed stayed ahead of or moved past the Patriots and are more of a threat to each other than the Pats are to either of them.

This offseason when the charge for every team has been to get better because their neighbor is trying, the Bills added dynamic pass rusher Von Miller and have addressed their interior defensive line.

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