MIAMI GARDENS — This was a bad loss, anywhere, against any team. It just felt worse Sunday, because the Miami Dolphins looked like a youth team that couldn’t line up and run plays properly with their home opener on the line.

Or they couldn’t run the plays without a dumb penalty.

Or, when all that fundamental stuff actually worked, the quarterback they put in the $50 million club threw an interception to end one chance and was sacked when he couldn’t move out of harm’s way for the final chance.

“Anyone knows football and anyone who doesn’t know football knows that was not right, what we were doing,” quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said after losing to the New England Patriots, 33-27 .

This is a loss as bad as the one the Dolphins had to open the season last week, when they were run off

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