Even from the moment you realized the Super Bowl was being played in Indianapolis, you had to know that the Patriots would be in the mix.

            Then, the lockout happened, giving an edge to all of last year’s top teams (New England had the NFL’s best mark at 14-2).

            But then came Week 1, and Patriot fans could have booked their trips to Indianapolis. When the Dolphins predictably, and fruitlessly, ran a fade pattern on 4^th-and-...