But underappreciated is the significant retooling that Miami underwent after assembling that powerful trinity, a sometimes painful process that fashioned the Heat into the offensive wrecking crew it is today.

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Pollard, depending upon your tastes, is either the least-perfect or most-perfect player in the NFL to weigh in on this issue: He has been a one-man wrecking crew during his NFL career, injuring New England Patriots players in particular (Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Stevan Ridley are notable victims).

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