ATLANTA — If you knew a few days ago that one team, either the Miami Dolphins or Atlanta Falcons, would rush for 141 yards and that same team would hold its opponent to 45 yards rushing you’d have bet every dollar you had that it’d have been the Falcons producing the good statistics.

But it wasn’t the Falcons that did the damage Sunday, it was the Dolphins . Stopping the run was absolutely huge.

Stopping the run led to the Dolphins playing their best game of the season in a 34-10 blowout win over the Falcons.

“Monumental,” is how coach Mike McDaniel described that aspect of the game.

“Stopping the run not only changed the time of possession,” he said, “but it was also an assistant to the third-down execution where we could be a little bit aggressive.”

The Dolphins entered Sunday’

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