The Miami Dolphins became the fourth team in NFL history to score 70 points in one game on Sunday.

The quarterbacks who started for the winning team in the first three of those games are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame – Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears, Norm Van Brocklin of the Los Angeles Rams and Sonny Jurgensen of the Washington Redskins.

For their 70-20 victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday, the Dolphins had Tua Tagovailoa under center, and the former Alabama All-American delivered Hall of Fame numbers.

Tagovailoa completed 23-of-26 passes for 309 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions. His completion percentage of .885 is the best of his career for any game in which he had more than two passes, and his Sunday passing-efficiency rating of 155.8 also is the best of his career.

“This doesn’t compare to anything that I’ve seen or been a part of,” Tagovailoa said. “… Although we were up going into halftime, I’m very proud of the guys and the way they continued to play. No one took their foot off the gas. Everyone continued to play. That’s the result that we got.”

Tagovailoa completed all 16 of his first-half throws – for 206 yard and two touchdowns – as Miami built a 35-13 lead. NFL Next Gen Stats calculated the likelihood of Tagovailoa completing all 16 of those passes at 2.2 percent.

“I wasn’t feeling anything,” Tagovailoa said. “I was just trying to find the open guy and just go through my progressions.”

Tagovailoa threw touchdown passes of:

· 54 yards to wide receiver Tyreek Hill with 13:37 left in the first quarter.

· 4 yards to running back Devon Achane with 10:16 left in the second quarter.

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· 19 yards to running back Raheem Mostert with 7:48 left in the third quarter.

· 10 yards to Achane with 14:55 left in the fourth quarter.

Tagovailoa left the game after his second touchdown toss to Achane, which gave the Dolphins a 56-13 lead.

Backup QB Mike White threw a 68-yard TD pass to wide receiver Robbie Chosen, and Achane ran 67 yards for the final touchdown.

In his second NFL game, Achane ran for 203 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries and caught four passes for 30 yards and two touchdowns.

The Dolphins’ offense piled up 726 yards against the Broncos.

Before Sunday, the only NFL team that had gained at least 700 yards in a game was the Rams on Sept. 28, 1951, in a 54-14 victory over the New York Yanks. Van Brocklin set the NFL single-game record for passing yards with 554 in that contest.

The “NFL Record and Fact Book” says the Rams gained 735 yards in that game. But profootballreference.com lists Los Angeles’ yardage as 722.

The Chicago Bears set the single-game scoring record when they defeated Washington 73-0 in the NFL Championship Game on Dec. 8, 1940.

The other 70-point games occurred in the regular season. Washington defeated the New York Giants 72-41 on Nov. 27, 1966, and the Rams defeated the Baltimore Colts 70-27 on Oct. 22, 1950.

The Dolphins did a kneel-down on fourth down at the Denver 27-yard line with 30 seconds left when a field goal would have set the NFL scoring record for a regular-season game.

Tagovailoa said there was no temptation to attempt the kick.

“It’s about respect in the NFL,” Tagovailoa said. “And we went out there and I feel like that’s what we got. We got respect. We’re not trying to go out there and humiliate teams. That’s just what it happened to look like.”

Tagovailoa entered the game with 715 passing yards, the most in the league through the first two weeks of the 2023 season.

“It’s hard to get better continually because it’s exhausting,” Miami coach Mike McDaniel said, “and you just want to feel like, ‘Man, I’ve arrived.’ That’s not him. That’s why you will continue to see a better version of him as he progresses. He’s a season and three games into this offense, and the sky’s the limit for him as long as him and his teammates continue to put as much focus and preparation in practice and all of those things that make Sundays possible like that.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.