COMMENTARY
Five takeaways from the first game the Patriots have ever played at Gillette Stadium without Tom Brady on the payroll, as New England’s new-look offense stomped its way to a 21-11 dispatching of the Dolphins…
CAM WAS SUPER, MAN
Cam Newton was always going to be the biggest story of Game 1, good or bad.
Sunday, it turned out, he was neither good nor bad. He was great.
Of the 18 quarterbacks who started games at 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon, Newton threw for the fewest yards, with 155. He joined counterpart Ryan Fitzpatrick as one of only two of the 18 among that group who failed to throw a touchdown pass.