Dolphins...16 Bills...3

Chad Pennington and the Miami Dolphins took advantage of an indifferent Bills “home” crowd, an inept Buffalo offense and the cozy indoors of the Rogers Centre to stay firmly in playoff contention.

Pennington completed 23 passes, including his final 11 attempts, and also connected with Anthony Fasano for a 20-yard touchdown as the Dolphins (8-5) won for the sixth time in seven games, 16-3. The Dolphins’ defense did the rest, giving up only 163 yards to a Bills team playing its first of five annual regular-season games in its adopted home-away-from-home of Toronto.

The Bills (6-7) lost for the sixth time in seven games and were all but mathematically knocked out of playoff contention.

Pennington finished with 181 yards, and became the third Dolphins player to reach 3,000 yards passing in a season and first since Jay Fiedler in 2001.

Quoteworthy: “It definitely didn’t feel like an away game for us. The way we played up here today and just to look out in the stands, I think we did win over some fans.” -- Jeremiah Bell, Dolphins safety