Patriots Are 3-0 at Home, 1-3 on the Road and Outscored by 35 Away From Foxborough. Sunday's in Miami

The Patriots are 4-3. That record hides two completely different football teams, and the official results make it obvious. At Gillette, New England is 3-0 and has outscored people 91-39. On the road it is 1-3 and has been outscored 104-69. Sunday at 4:25 p.m. they go to Miami, so the question is which team gets on the plane.

Here's the season, straight from the schedule and results. Road: lost 13-10 at Seattle, lost 35-6 at Jacksonville, won 29-26 at Buffalo, lost 30-24 at Chicago. Home: beat Pittsburgh 20-3, beat Las Vegas 45-17, beat the Jets 26-19. Add it up and the Patriots have scored 160 and allowed 143 over seven games. Plus-17 overall, plus-52 at home, minus-35 on the road.

The split shows up on defense most of all. In the three home wins, New England has not allowed more than 19 points. In the four road games, it has not held anyone under 13, and three of the four opponents scored 26 or more. The 45 points against Las Vegas on Oct. 11 are the season high; the 35 allowed at Jacksonville on Sept. 27 are the most given up.

Take out the Jacksonville game and the road losses are by three and six. So the problem isn't that they get blown out on the road every week. It's that they haven't been able to finish close ones away from home, with Buffalo the exception.

The other thing working for them Sunday is the calendar. The Chicago loss was a Thursday night game on Oct. 22, so by kickoff in Miami the Patriots will have had nearly 10 days between games. That shows up on the injury report.

On Wednesday, the first official injury report of the week, the Patriots listed nobody as a non-participant. Four players were limited: wide receiver A.J. Brown (ankle, knee), offensive lineman Ben Brown (knee), defensive tackle DaQuan Jones (back) and tackle Morgan Moses (foot). Eight were full participants, including quarterback Drake Maye (right shoulder), safety Kevin Byard III (chest), linebackers Christian Elliss (chest) and Dre'Mont Jones (shoulder), and three cornerbacks: Carlton Davis III (neck), Channing Canada (hamstring) and Karon Prunty (hamstring). Tackle Marcus Bryant (ankle) was also full.

Those three corners matter. Sports Illustrated's Patriots site noted that Davis, Canada and Prunty had each missed four games this season. All three being full on Wednesday is the best sign the secondary has had in a while. The same outlet reported that Bryant, who has been on injured reserve since the start of the season, is nearing the end of his practice window, so the Patriots have a roster decision coming on him.

The Dolphins' list is longer. Miami had two players who did not practice, cornerback JuJu Brents (neck, concussion) and guard/tackle Kadyn Proctor (concussion), and eight limited: long snapper Tucker Addington, tight ends Greg Dulcich and Will Kacmarek, safeties Michael Taaffe and Dante Trader Jr., cornerback Reese Taylor and receivers Malik Washington and Jared Wayne. Quarterback Malik Willis (groin) was a full participant, as were edge Rob Beal Jr. and running back Jaylen Wright. The NFL's league-wide report lists Miami at 1-5.

A word on what an injury report is and isn't. Wednesday's designations are practice participation, not game status. "Limited" means less than 100 percent of a player's normal reps; "full" means all of them. Game statuses like out, doubtful or questionable come on Friday's report, under the league's definitions printed with the team's release.

After Miami, it's Green Bay at home on Nov. 8 and then a trip to Detroit on Nov. 15, according to the schedule, which means two of the next three are on the road, where this team has been a different animal.

Dez's take: A 1-5 division opponent, nearly 10 days of rest and every defensive back practicing in full is about as good a setup as a road game gets. If the Patriots are going to fix the road thing, this is the week. Lose this one and the 3-0 at home starts to look like the whole story. The two things I'd watch: whether Moses is limited again Thursday and Friday, since a 35-year-old tackle with a sore foot against a pass rush is no joke, and whether A.J. Brown is anything more than limited.

What we still don't know: Friday's game designations for the four limited Patriots, and what New England decides on Bryant.