WEST PALM Seashore, Fla. (AP) — Tua Tagovailoa did not seem to be to celebrate this stat. Invoice Belichick absolutely isn’t, possibly.
Tagovailoa hears all the time about the points he supposedly just cannot do — can’t throw the deep ball, cannot keep healthy, cannot get to the playoffs, issues of that nature.
So far, when taking part in the New England Patriots, he also can’t lose.
Tagovailoa is 3- in his to start with 3 commences towards the Patriots, and he and the Miami Dolphins will look to make that 4- when they perform host to Mac Jones — Tagovailoa’s former Alabama teammate — and New England in Week 1 of the NFL frequent period on Sunday.
“I would not attest that I’m 3-,” Tagovailoa claimed. “I would attest that we’re 3- as a crew. It can take all of us. I’m just the distributor. I have just got to get it to our playmakers. They make the performs. Our protection will get us the ball back and the defense would make stops. Exclusive groups, they do their part. And that is how you acquire games.”
In accordance to SportRadar, the only other quarterbacks to acquire their very first a few starts off in opposition to the Patriots in the Belichick coaching era there, which goes again to 2000, ended up Jake Plummer, Vinny Testaverde, Jay Fiedler and Drew Brees.
No one has won his first four starts off versus New England since Belichick took about there Testaverde, Fiedler and Brees all lost in No. 4, and Plummer built just the a few begins.
Tagovailoa has that 4- prospect, although insists his lone precedence is receiving the Dolphins to 1-.
“Productive player, is aware how to use his weapons, receivers, backs,” Belichick said Wednesday right before the Patriots began their video game-7 days tactics in West Palm Seashore, Florida, striving to acclimate to the warmth and humidity that awaits them on Sunday. “Makes a ton of superior vital plays, intention line, 3rd-and-1, fourth-and-1. Pair plays that formatted versus us final year. Clever football participant.”
The Dolphins had been the only AFC East staff that Jones didn’t lead New England to victory towards previous time, his rookie campaign.
Tagovailoa and Jones are likely to be joined without end, for a large amount of good reasons. The two were Alabama quarterbacks. Each gained countrywide championships there. Jones was the participant who arrived into the sport when Tagovailoa hurt his hip at Mississippi Point out in 2019, on what turned his remaining collegiate enjoy.
And for the 2nd straight yr, in Week 1, it’s Tua vs. Mac. Past year’s opener was at New England this 12 months, it’s at Miami.
“I consider sometimes, Game 1, there is a good deal of psychological things,” Jones reported. “You want to target extra on the facts of the plays and everything like that and allow the emotions appear and go. That is how feelings are, they come and go. Power and all that will be there. At the close of the day, it is just the start out of some thing. You have to master from it and grow no matter of the success. So, we’re heading to go out there and contend and see how it goes.”
Dolphins mentor Mike McDaniel, who’ll be earning his debut as a head mentor Sunday, got to know Jones through the draft course of action when he was with the San Francisco 49ers and evaluating quarterbacks these as Jones.
He raved about him then, and nevertheless does.
“I really like his engage in and I believe the greatest is appropriate in entrance of him for his profession,” McDaniel said. “And I glimpse forward to seeing it 15 out of the 17 games of the NFL period.”
NOTES: The Patriots explained OT Isaiah Wynn (back), WR Jakobi Meyers (knee) and RB Ty Montgomery (knee) have been constrained in observe. … Amongst those people minimal for the Dolphins was WR Jaylen Waddle — who caught passes from each Tagovailoa and Jones at Alabama. Tagovailoa mentioned he’s hopeful that Waddle (quad) can go Sunday.
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