Tua Tagovailoa joins exclusive club with latest win over New England Patriots
By Andrew Olson
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Tua Tagovailoa has Bill Belichick’s number.
Football is a team sport, but we like to assign wins to quarterbacks. Tagovailoa led the Miami Dolphins to a 20-7 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday. Tagovailoa is now 4-0 against New England in his young NFL career, which means he has won 4-straight against the Belichick-coached Patriots. Only John Elway has also gone 4-0 against Belichick, including the postseason.
The Dolphins have their fourth-straight win over the Patriots.
Tua Tagovailoa (270 yards, TD, 104.4 rating) is the first QB to ever beat a Bill Belichick coached team four times in a row.
— Travis Wingfield (@WingfieldNFL) September 11, 2022
Tua has Belichick's number pic.twitter.com/8Lq7Nro3xO
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) September 11, 2022
Tagovailoa seemed to enjoy having Tyreek Hill on his team in the third season of his NFL career. Hill caught 8 passes for 94 of Tagovailoa’s 270 passing yards.
As division rivals, the Dolphins and the Patriots meet again on Jan. 1. We’ll see if Tagovailoa can make it 5-0 against Belichick’s squad.
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
