So much for the five straight wins, the feel-good start of Tua Tagovailoa, the idea the Dolphins might not just win the AFC East but — did you hear it on talk radio last week? — be one of the NFL’s top-five teams.
Big deal. It was one game. One bad game. One. The loneliest number. And no one had to feel lonelier on the sideline in his mask and with a clipboard than Tagovaila at the end of Sunday’s 20-13 loss in Denver.
Ryan Fitzpatrick came in relief in the eighth inning, provided a good spark to a moribund offense but couldn’t pull out the win.