Watch: Antonio Brown Already Collect Three Catches Vs. Dolphins

Antonio Brown stole the show in Miami. Head coach Bill Belichick gave a green light, and the NFL’s best wide receiver hit the field with all his power. Brown had his three catches for the Patriots in the opening quarter.

The troubled receiver had three catches for 36 yards. His first catch happened on Tom Brady’s first pass of the game. The quarterback hit his target for 18 yards. TB12 found the receiver for a 10-yard gain two plays later, and this success was followed by an 8-yard connection two players after that.

Head coach Bill Belichick didn’t say much about Brown’s role on the team. But he said a lot few years ago.

“It won’t get much tougher than that,” Belichick said in 2015. “Antonio is really a good player that’s good in the deep part of the field, he’s good on catch and run plays – the screens they try to throw to him and the under routes and stuff like that and the intermediate routes. He ran a real good route on a double move. I think it was a good battle.” 

He said the same in 2016.

“(He’s) very difficult,” Belichick said at a midweek press conference in 2016. “He’s got a tremendous skill set, very quick. He almost always can create separation in his route. He’s a very good technique route-runner so he does a great job of setting up routes. He does a really good job of getting on top of the (defensive backs) almost stepping on the toes before he goes into his route so they can’t get any kind of — they can’t really anticipate it. He does a great job of stacking the defenders where he gets a step on the defender then he kind of cuts him off so that the defenders like a full man behind him so he can use his body to protect the ball on the deep balls. He’s hard to jam on the line because of his great quickness and then as I said, when he gets that half a step on the defender, not that he necessarily outruns everybody on the field, but once he moves in front of them and stacks them then he is on top of them.”

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