MIAMI – He probably won’t even take his baseball cap off on the sideline today, but Bubby Brister knows he’s in a good place, far away from the comedy of errors he lived out as a Jet.

Brister, too, sits in an extremely interesting place as he waits for John Elway to retire (which he’s certain to do), thus opening up the chance of a lifetime for him. Brister envisions a miraculous rebirth from backup to Super Bowl starter, all past the age of 35.

“Nobody’s ever going to fill [Elway’s] shoes, but if something does happen I would love to spend a year or two with this system and with this talent around and see how well I could do,” Brister said.

This season, Brister shocked many when he relieved the injured Elway and won five games as the Broncos’ starter to keep the undefeated streak alive and throw out a 99.0 rating with 10 TDs and only 3 INTs.

Not even Brister, who was out of football in 1996 after his damning experience with Rich Kotite’s 1-15 Jets, dreamed something like this was possible.

Certainly not his teammates, whom he shocked with his efficiency as a starter.

Shannon Sharpe joked that Brister was given the “keys to the Ferrari” and asked not to crack it up. He didn’t. “It’s hard to be a great quarterback on a bad team,” Brister said, giving reason for the disaster with the Jets in 1995 that was low-lighted by his now-infamous shovel pass INT to Sam Mills in Carolina, giving the Panthers their first win in franchise history.