Miami Dolphins' defense is historically awful, allowing scores on every single drive

The fundamental, most important task of a defense is to, well, defend. To stop the offense from scoring. It's a simple binary yes-no proposition: If the offense can't score, your defense is good. If the offense scores, your defense is bad. No gray area, no room for interpretation.

So ... what does that say about your defense if the offense always scores? The Miami Dolphins are in the process of finding out, and the answer is as ugly as it gets.

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One week after allowing the Indianapolis Colts to score on literally every single possession — three touchdowns and four field goals — the Dolphins began Week 2's game against New England by giving up touchdowns on the Patriots' first two drives.

Not that matters can get much worse than a defense that's an open gate, but the Dolphins' offense isn't really holding up its end of the deal, either. Miami scored a mere 8 points last week, and couldn't put anything on the board through the first quarter of Sunday's game either, only scoring in the second quarter on a 17-yard pass from Tua Tagovailoa to Jaylen Waddle.

How much worse can it get? We'll find out, but there's not much room for optimism any time soon.

This is a painfully developing story and will be updated. Sorry, Dolphins fans.