The defense is expected to be, and will be pretty great. Just have to remember that both Mayo and Wilfork missed the last 12 games of the season last year and Sunday was their first real action to shake rust off.
To simply put it, the D line just got outplayed by Miami's O-line. Don't know if the 2 BS roughing the passer calls against Jones got to his head or what, but he was very ineffective, as were Wilfork, Vellano, Ninkovitch et al.
The O-line was embarrassed and had their jobs put on the line by Cameron Wake. Brady very uncharacteristically missed deep balls or Gronk on the middle seam.
Speaking of Gronk, he played less than 50% of the snaps.
I expect them to load the box versus Minnesota because Revis, Dennard, McCourty should be able to handle Minnesota's weak passing game.