"As the final seconds ticked down to what already was a certain victory for the Patriots, the home team's closed-circuit feed to the Gillette Stadium scoreboard focused on a dejected Joey Porter on the Dolphins sideline.

The caption below Porter's name: ``Zero tackles. Zero sacks.''

And one problem with that is it showed zero class because it needlessly ridiculed an already-beaten opponent.

The other problem is Porter allowed the statistics to be accurate in the first place.

The Dolphins sack leader a year ago was as invisible on the field as he was afterward in the locker room, when he bugged out without talking to reporters.

Facing the opportunity to match up much of the game against a backup rookie left tackle making only his third career start, Porter whiffed.

That left tackle, Sebastian Vollmer, grew up in Germany playing soccer. He learned to play football at the University of Houston at the same time he was learning to speak English.

And provided that favorable matchup, neither Porter, nor Jason Taylor, nor anyone else on the Miami roster was able to break through for a sack by beating Vollmer or backup lineman Mark LeVoir, who sometimes helped his teammate on passing downs."