FOXBORO — How do you win a game in the NFL and score 30 points when you have only 104 yards of total offense?

Ask the Miami Dolphins.

The formula includes two kickoff returns for touchdowns by one of the fastest players in the league.

Last week against the Jets, second-year wideout Ted Ginn Jr. had returns of 100 and 101 yards, which went a long way toward Miami scoring a season sweep of its AFC East rivals in New York.

But Jay Feely isn’t Stephen Gostkowski. The Jets’ kicker has just six touchbacks on kickoffs this season, while the Patriots’ Gostkowski has more than twice that many (13), a number that is second-most in the league.

And Gostkowski’s strong leg is likely to play a major role in New England’s special-teams play Sunday against the Dolphins.

“That’s really the best coverage you can have, kicking it out of the end zone,” Pats head coach Bill Belichick said this week.

But there’s a catch.

“The flip side of that is when you kick it deep, then that gives them the best opportunity to set up the timing on the return as opposed to the ball coming down on the 10-yard line, the 15, the eight or the goal line,” Belichick added. “Ideally, you get that kick to the goal line, and that gives the return team the best opportunity to get all timed up the way they work on it. But the good kick, it keeps you from having to cover it. When it’s a touchback, it’s good. When it’s not, it creates an opportunity for the return team to get their (preferred play) timed up.”

Given the length of Ginn’s touchdowns, he fielded both kicks on or near the goal line, which gave Miami the chance to align things its way.

Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano, showing that he and Belichick may be fairly similar — at least in some respects — was asked whether he would be surprised to see New England kick to Ginn this week.

“I won’t be surprised. I think probably they’re going to do what they’re going to do. I would be more surprised if they kicked it really deep to Ted,” Sparano said. “I kind of think that probably what’s going to happen is maybe they’re coaching that ball to land at the 10-yard line or so, to see if they can’t squeeze the field a little bit that way, as opposed to kicking it two yards deep and letting (Ginn) handle it that way. They obviously have confidence in their coverage units and their people; no different than the Jets had confidence in theirs.”

However, it isn’t all about alignment. Ginn broke several tackles on his TD returns, particularly the second one, when former Patriot Larry Izzo had him lined up and whiffed on the opportunity. Had Izzo taken Ginn down, the return would have been average.

“The second one, the Jets missed four tackles. They had a shot at him. It wasn’t like they didn’t have an opportunity to get him,” Belichick said. “It was just split wide open, it was more of poor tackling or good running, however you want to look at it. Tackling is always an emphasis for us against Miami with their backs and their receivers.”

Belichick said that 85 percent of the time New England spends on special teams each week is constant, while the other 15 percent changes week to week depending on whether there is something the team wants to emphasize. The Pats also tailor their coverages depending on the returners they are going to face, whether they might see a smaller, speed guy who likes to get to the outside and turn upfield, or a player who likes to look for a seam straight up the middle.

New England has been decent thus far on kickoff coverage. The Pats allow an average of 23.5 yards per return, which is 20th in the NFL, but they have kept big returns to a minimum. The longest of the season was by the Jets’ Leon Washington in Week Two, when he had a 43-yarder to open the second half, and also recorded 40- and 37-yard scampers.

No other returner has exceeded Washington’s output against the Patriots. In their last game, Tampa Bay’s Sammie Stroughter was held to fewer than 18 yards per return — one week after he had a 97-yard touchdown against Carolina (though Belichick questioned this week whether the Buccaneers had been aided by an illegal wedge on the play).