The Patriots’ matchup against the Dolphins on Sunday in South Florida is not our Game of the Week because we believe it’s going to be a memorable, close AFC East showdown that has any impact on the outcome of the division.

We’ve chosen this game based on the intrigue of how lopsided it might get, based on how dominant the Patriots looked in their 33-3 season-opening victory over the Steelers and how utterly inept the Dolphins looked in their 59-10 loss to the Ravens last week.

Some betting lines have the Patriots as 19¹/₂-point favorites on the road. To illustrate just how bad the Dolphins are as they continue with their overt tanking of this season for the No. 1-overall pick, they are nearly a three-touchdown underdog at home, where they’ve actually defeated the Patriots in five of the past six meetings.

Making this betting line even more eye-opening is the fact the Patriots are such massive favorites when recent history shows New England coach Bill Belichick has not had great success against his former assistants.

Dolphins coach Brian Flores will face his old boss for the first time after spending the previous 15 years working for Belichick. He will be the ninth former Belichick assistant to coach against the Patriots since 2000, and that doesn’t include former Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel, the Titans’ coach.

In those nine games, Belichick’s initial meeting against his former coaches or players, the Patriots are a pedestrian 5-4 and have lost the past two — a 26-10 loss to Matt Patricia’s Lions and 34-10 loss to Vrabel and the Titans last season.

Flores’ staff of assistants includes former Patriots assistants Chad O’Shea (former wide receivers coach) as offensive coordinator, Patrick Graham (defensive coach assistant) as defensive coordinator and Josh Boyer (cornerbacks coach) as defensive pass game coordinator.

“Every week, we play and coach against players and coaches that have been on our team before,” Belichick said on a conference call Tuesday, predictably downplaying any pattern. “That’s basically the way it is in the National Football League.”

The question about the trend is whether the Dolphins who have no idea who their quarterback should be (ineffective and inconsistent Ryan Fitzpatrick or unproven Josh Rosen) — are just so bad they cannot overcome their own ineptitude.

They were so noncompetitive against Baltimore that reports surfaced almost immediately afterward that some Dolphins players had contacted their agents in an effort to try to get out of Miami.

Other than poor morale, another likely problem for the Dolphins is Patriots quarterback Tom Brady against their porous secondary, which had a big part in Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson producing a perfect passer rating while throwing five touchdowns on just 20 passes last week. Brady threw for 341 yards, three TDs and had no INTs for 124.9 passer rating against the Steelers

All of this points to a New England sweep of the season series despite another weird statistic: Tom Brady owns a 7-10 career record in Miami. Sometimes, though, the eye test is enough, and what we saw last week is enough to tell you this shouldn’t be a very stressful day for New England.