See Tua. See Tua take two steps back. See Tua take on step forward.

See Tua fire the ball to an open Miami Dolphin receiver.

See the New England Patriots implode.

There you go, that was your Sunday. Don’t worry, football fans, next Sunday you can spend time putting up the tree inside and all those fancy lights that soak up your electric bill outside. ‘Tis the season.

“I think they came out with their game plan, they started fast,” Patriots defensive back Christian Gonzalez said after the 34-15 loss that could have been a Miami Massacre were it not for the Dolphins taking the foot off the gas late. “They started really fast, and we didn’t match our intensity defensively. They came out and hit their goals.”

It got so bad a player the Patriots – and correctly we might add – deemed to be a free agent bust, tight end Jonnu Smith, torched them with nine catches for 87 yards and a touchdown. He’s thrived since he left New England, first with Atlanta last year and now with the Dolphins.

But this is nothing we haven’t seen before with Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa. He’s 7-0 vs. the Patriots and has thrived when not concussed under Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel. He gets the ball out fast and the Patriots defensively played a zone that allowed Miami receivers to have more space. Oops.

“At the end of the day basically almost everything they’ve done today ended up on film,” Patriots corner Marcus Jones said. “So a lot of situations were execution.”

Yes, and the Patriots were executed.

It didn’t help as most of you watched that on offense tackle Verderian Lowe was a penalty waiting to happen, a hold or a false start. Drake Maye displayed his talents but also continues to turn the ball over. The No. 1 job of the QB isn’t to get into the end zone, it’s to protect the ball.

But it really was Tagovailoa and McDaniel out-scheming the pants off Jerod Mayo and defensive coordinator DeMarcus Covington.

“Yeah, it starts with me,” Mayo said. “I think it starts with me and getting these guys ready to go.”

Tagovailoa is a rhythm quarterback, and the way teams beat him is upset his rhythm with pressure. The Patriots had zip.

“They used motion and shifts and things like that to stress the (defense’s) communicaton,” Mayo said. “And we just weren’t on the same page.”

Or the same planet. Mayo and Covington have to learn how to operate against a potent attack. They went from the Bears’ poorly coached offense to two coached by wizards, the Rams’ Sean McVay and McDaniel. Nobody beats the Wiz.

“When you have a confident player touching the ball every day that is impervious to the emotions of the game, good or bad, as a collective unit, you can be a problem for people to defend,” McDaniel said.

That’s McDanielspeak for we could do anything we wanted.

“It’s great,” Tagovailoa said of being 7-0 vs. the Pats. “It’s great any time you can find a win against a divisional opponent. It’s not my win, it’s the team’s win, so I’ll leave that at that.”

Of course this took all the attention off of Maye, so while we know he’s the future and the real deal, he’s going to have to be superhuman if the Patriots defense can’t stop anyone.

We already know they can’t stop Tua Tagovailoa.

Tom King can be reached at tking@nashuatelegraph.com, or on twitter @Telegraph_TomK.