MIAMI GARDENS — Jon Gruden had just sat in his Tampa backyard with Darren Waller in June, reflecting on life’s possibilities with perhaps his favorite player. And so when those possibilities turned into Waller’s second touchdown Monday night, “I was so excited I almost shot through the roof,’’ Gruden said.

“Darren Freakin’ Waller,’’ he wrote that night on Twitter.

Marc Trestman felt that way a few minutes earlier Monday. After the Miami Dolphins tight end’s first touchdown — a leaping catch at the back of the end zone — his former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator grabbed his phone.

“Darren, really happy to see you back in the game!’’ Trestman texted him. “Excited for you.”

Sometimes you get a moment so clean and right, one where the good guy overcomes so much that anyone accomp

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