After a rough 2-6 start to the season and looking like all hope had been lost, the Miami Dolphins are right back in the thick of things in the AFC Playoff race. They’ll look to add a third game to their winning streak this Sunday when they take on the New England Patriots, and they would inch closer to the.500 mark if quarterback Tua Tagovailoa continues his winning ways against the division rivals.
Tua Tagovailoa Is 6-0 Against The Patriots In His Career
The Patriots dominated the AFC East for nearly two decades. And while the Dolphins were the division foe that gave Bill Belichick and company the most fits over the years, New England was 25-12 against Miami from 2001 until 2019. But the Patriots haven’t done a whole lot of winning in the rivalry since.
REMINDER: Tua Tagovailoa is 6-0 versus the Patriots in his career pic.twitter.com/eIyjJCyJCa
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Since Tua Tagovailoa was drafted and inserted into the starting lineup in 2020, he has never lost to the Patriots. He is a perfect 6-0 in the matchup, all of which came when Bill Belichick was the coach in New England. In the one game that the Patriots have won against the Dolphins since 2020, Tagovailoa was out due to injury, and it was Skylar Thompson and Teddy Bridgewater who were under center instead.
How much does the streak for Miami’s quarterback mean for this weekend’s upcoming contest? None at all, according to Dolphins’ head coach Mike McDaniel:
“It means nothing for this week and I think that’s important in either scenario of matchups; those are different teams, those are different times of the year. The biggest set up in the National Football League is praise or overindulgence into stats of former teams. It is the Miami Dolphins versus the New England Patriots on Sunday; first time that we’ve played against this quarterback, first time that we played this season on the heels of a two-game winning streak.”
The Dolphins will be desperate for a solid outing from their quarterback. Miami’s offense has been transformed with Tua Tagovailoa back in the lineup after missing games due to concussion protocol, scoring 111 points over the past four weeks after scoring just 35 combined in the previous four. They’ve gotten back into the playoff picture by improving their record to 4-6, and are hoping to have a chance to pull back to .500 in their Thanksgiving Day matchup against the Packers next week.
They’ll need to take care of New England first, though. The game will be played in Miami on Sunday afternoon, and the home team is currently listed as a 7.5-point favorite. The Dolphins won the first matchup between the two sides earlier this season, though that was one of the games that Tagovailoa missed.
