Chris Kouffman
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Co-host of @3YardsPerCarry, most listened to independent Miami Dolphins podcast on market. RIP Twitter. Join us at https://t.co/2rFKzWPNTd
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Joined June 2009
Listen to Tua at the end, “But you’re thinking of all that before it happens and then you’re like, ‘OK does the clock give me time to- ah shit, I can’t- Set Hut!’”. This has been a problem for 3 years. Tua has been trying to tell us but he’s too nice to say it more sharply.
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Oh now THIS is a sack celebration. Look at Jevon Holland synchronizing like 20 yards away lol.
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You know who else has been trying to tell us?. TOM BRADY. He could have very well been thinking specifically of Miami’s offense when he described this problem.
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How quickly they forget what Tua Tagovailoa looked like when he had a full complement of weapons at his disposal.
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I guess Terron Armstead, Tyreek Hill, Mike Gesicki, Emmanuel Ogbah, Cedrick Wilson, and Connor Williams. chose Tua. So much for that narrative.
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Raheem Mostert & Chase Edmonds has to be one of, if not the fastest backfield in the NFL. Jaylen Waddle & Tyreek Hill clearly the fastest WR duo in the NFL. Mike Gesicki one of the fastest TEs in the NFL. Hell, Terron Armstead has the fastest 40 time of all LTs in the NFL.
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You may have missed it but when Connor Williams snapped that ball at a low flying airplane, Tua tried to dive on the ball, and after he realized he missed it and the defender on his back might get it, he knocked the ball clear over to Kendall Lamm.
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Wait, so Patrick Mahomes also under throws an open Tyreek Hill when he’s trying to go 54 yards through the air?. But I was told…
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Tuanigamanuolepola Tagovailoa has more vowels in his name than he does incomplete passes over the last three NFL games combined.
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This is embarrassing. And you wonder why Dolphins fans take issue with the way national media talk about Tua Tagovailoa.
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Mike McDaniel exchange on @PatMcAfeeShow show:. Pat McAfee: "Hey Gumpy has a question for ya. He's been a diehard Dolphins fan his entire life.". Gump Cathcart: "Didn't go to Yale, worked at a shipyard for 15 years. We f--kin need ya, Mike-". Mike McDaniel: "At the shipyard?!".
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Let me just say now, FUCK THESE MOTHER FUCKERS WE BEAT YOU IN YOUR OWN FUCKING STADIUM AND YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE A PLAYOFF TEAM ACCORDING TO EVERY FUCKING TALKING HEAD ON THE PLANET FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.
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Kenny Pickett had two concussions in 2022. Tua Tagovailoa had two concussions in 2022. One of them is a sudden media darling with consensus expectations to rocket off his 77 passer rating in 2022 and into the 2023 playoffs. The other is tagged with "thoughts and prayers". OK.
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This game aged Mike McDaniel 10 years.
McDaniel said that Sanders’s technique on the missed kick was good enough that he felt comfortable trying again
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Are we sure Miami should be trading Tua Tagovailoa for another quarterback and not Brian Flores for another head coach?.
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People are like, “Quit making excuses for Tua!” And I’m scratching my head trying to figure out, what are we making excuses for? Winning the game? Completing 82% of his passes to a lackluster cast? Not taking a sack behind the worst OL in team history? The 109 passer rating?.
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ESPN's M.Greenberg:"I will go to my grave saying [Boston is] the superior team but they didn't play like it. I will never again say the team with the best players wins in basketball. It. is no longer true. No one will ever be able to say the Celtics didn't have the best players".
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At first this looks exactly like the hit that gave Tua a concussion vs Packers late last year. But a closer look shows his training paid off. He can’t control the way a sacker takes him to ground, but he can control how he braces himself, tucks his chin. Helmet didn’t even touch.
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I truly believe this offensive build for Miami is over. It was a moment in time, perhaps even a necessary one, when the question was how do we rehab a top 5 pick QB who just survived an all out civil war with a Head Coach who actively worked against him. It’s not the same Tua.
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Tua Tagovailoa (2) trailed behind only Kirk Cousins (3), Justin Herbert (3), and Patrick Mahomes (3) in right-handed touchdown passes in Week 3.
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Last year Miami was potent but fragile. If Armstead was injured, the offense sucked. If Tyreek or Jaylen sat some plays, the offense struggled. If Tua was off the field? Forget it. Byron Jones misses the whole year, more injuries in the secondary? Defense disappears. The big.
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It’s so hard to watch any QB other than Tua Tagovailoa right now.
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One of Belichick’s TEs murdered people, hung himself in prison, only to find out he had severe CTE. Another admitted to 20 concussions and blacking out during 5 games. That’s in addition to Belichick ordering Ted Johnson to practice despite med staff saying he had a concussion.
Bill Belichick: I've removed players with concussion symptoms even if doctors cleared them.
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So this is what a newly married Tua Tagovailoa plays like now that he’s having sex.
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How embarrassing that the Miami Dolphins have a franchise quarterback doing weird classes to learn how to move his body and prevent injuries. He should've learned that on the playground as a kid!
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Shaq Barrett - $9.0m (incl. incentives).Jordyn Brooks - $8.8m.Aaron Brewer - $7.0m.Jonnu Smith - $4.2m.Jordan Poyer - $2.0m.Anthony Walker Jr. - (?).Isaiah Mack - $1.1m.Daviyon Nixon - $1.0m. That's about $34 mil on 8 players. Christian Wilkins alone would've cost $28 million.
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Remember when Dolphins OL Coach Butch Barry was supposed to suck? He coaches with post-it notes, he had the entire Broncos OL room clapping when he got fired, etc?. LOLOLOLOLOLOL.
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I repeat, HE HAS BEEN TRYING TO TELL US. “I would attest that to the communication errors we’ve had. Am I hearing the right formation? Ok we’re getting out but we have two motions that we have to use. So it’s maybe 9 seconds left on the clock. We’re motioning, it’s about 5
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This is easily Liam Eichenberg’s most elite trait as a football player. He consistently drives opposing DLs so crazy they get caught retaliating on him. It’s one of those weird things about his career. He’s also very good at getting Dolphins fans to hate him, too.
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Mike McDaniel as the Dolphins sent in the pick for WR Malik Washington.
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I want two things for the Dolphins. Yesterday meant almost nothing for one of them, but meant everything for the other. Yeah I want a championship. That’s one. Yesterday didn’t matter much for that. One game, yadda yadda. But the championship isn’t my end-all. More what I want.
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Among QBs with at least 90 pass attempts between 1994 and 2021, Tua Tagovailoa currently has the highest 4th quarter passer rating. Ever.
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On review, I thought Tua’s performance last week was low key his best outing in a Dolphins uniform. But he destroyed that outing this week against the Falcons. Out of 40 throws, 38 hit the receiver’s hands. The other 2 were picked because the receivers hung him out to dry.
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The only reason we talk about Tua Tagovailoa in “big” games and not Tyreek Hill is because we are pathologically obsessed with QBs. Tyreek Hill hasn’t played well in a big game for Miami in 3 years. He was thoroughly outplayed by Derek Stingley. This build is broken. Salt it.
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I think people are underestimating just how good Kader Kohou was as a rookie, and how good he's going to end up.
Kader Kohou gets $705,255 as part of NFL’s performance based pay bonus program. Kader was excellent as an undrafted rookie free agent CB for the Miami Dolphins.
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Jacoby Brissett is not good. Dolphins need to put Reid Sinnett in.
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Quite frankly if Brian Flores was attempting to unilaterally force the Miami Dolphins hand into trading 3 or 4 first round picks for a sexual predator with nearly as many accusers as career wins, then he probably deserved the firing. Don't @ me.
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Tua Tagovailoa on drives immediately following an interception, over the last two seasons (post-rookie year):. 30 of 46 for 425 yards, 5 TD, 0 INT.135.2 Passer Rating.
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Forgive the resolution but I think there was a pretty clear tipped ball by Matt Judon on the 1st play of the game yesterday. Ball changed trajectory drastically. So yes, Tyreek was wide open, yes Tua tried to hit him, but Judon got a piece of the ball.
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Waiting for the NFLPA to trigger an investigation based on Joe Burrow’s admission. Waiting for a bunch of former and current head coaches to go hard after Zac Taylor for letting Burrow continue playing games he blacked out. Feels like I’ll be waiting a while.
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Missing De’Von Achane, Terron Armstead, Connor Williams, Xavien Howard, and Jalen Ramsey. Played much/most of the game without other starters Isaiah Wynn, Jaylen Waddle, David Long, Jevon Holland. That’s a lot of next man up. Too many next men up to try and win on the road vs.
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Today was an important step for Mike McDaniel as a head coach, but also for Josh Boyer as a defensive coordinator. So many assumed Boyer couldn’t call the same D without Flores. Boyer’s defense completely out-boxed New England’s offense today.
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It feels to me like if Tua Tagovailoa played this poorly, Brian Flores wouldn’t hesitate to bench him the rest of the game.
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Before Miami can even start thinking about Offensive Line free agents and draft prospects, they need to be thinking about Offensive Line coaches and decision-makers. Because as bad as Miami's OL personnel are, their coaches and decision-makers are worse.
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Tua Tagovailoa has the highest 4th quarter completion percentage of any qualifying NFL quarterback going back to 1994. And it's not close. His 76% completion in the 4th quarter is a full 8 percentage points better than the runners-up (68%).
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Kinda crazy to think Tua Tagovailoa threw 110 passer rating and won the last two against the Ravens and Jets with two broken bones. The broken rib is still mending. The broken finger is still mending. Say what you want otherwise but don't ever deny the dude is tough as nails.
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That’s Tua-speak for Durham ran the wrong route and Tua tried to fit it in there anyway because his team is trying to trade him for a sex offender and he felt like he had to make every single play.
tua on his interception in the endzone: "it was cover-2. miscommunication with me and durham and i take full responsibility for that.".
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Backups account for 47% of Miami's OL snaps. Winning teams average 16%. No other winning team more than 27%. Bills only had 4% of OL snaps taken by backups. I once said Miami's OL was the exhaust port in the Death Star. I was wrong. Dolphins leads the NFL in offense anyway. I.
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NFL cares about concussions so much they keep their flags in their pockets as a defender launches the crown of his helmet up and straight at a defenseless receiver’s face mask.
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Brian Flores is now 4-2 versus his old boss, Bill Belichick.
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Joe Burrow is the 3rd-most sacked QB in the NFL since being drafted in 2020. For him to come right out and admit he's played multiple games where he got concussed and couldn't remember the rest of the game is astonishing.
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This question from @schadjoe and answer from Miami HC Mike McDaniel was THE highlight of the opening press conference, for me. I’m not easy to impress, when it comes to coach speak. Most people lap up things I find to be boiler plate nonsense. This was DIFFERENT (for me).
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Watch how quickly the talking heads will switch from criticizing Miami for starting Tua when he has a bad team around him that will get him killed, to talking about how Herbert’s and Burrow’s successes mean more because Tua has a better team helping him. It’s coming.
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Dolphins lost for the first time in nearly 2 months, so naturally we're talking about how the team may have to replace coaches, quarterback, all five offensive linemen, wide receivers, running backs, linebackers, and defensive line. Very cool and very normal.
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The NFL & NFLPA were in such a rush to do something with concussion protocol they effectively took medical judgment out of the hands of actual doctors and gave it instead to a nameless cabal of “spotters” whose qualifications are unknown and who operate with little oversight.
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Chris Grier pulling off a 3rd impact move on offense, after Terron Armstead and Tyreek Hill, all while traveling to Texas A&M and Ohio State to scout college players has shades of Michael Corleone settling all family business during his nephew's baptism.
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Tyreek Hill is so one-dimensional. All he does is catch balls for yards and touchdowns. Nothing else.
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As someone who has done a lot of work on arm strength from QBs, I can say this was an impressive display. He will never have alien powers. But anyone calling him arm deficient is going to have to get used to days like today when everyone is dunking on you.
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This appears to be the play where Tua hurt his back. Notice teammates rushing to clear him out of an awkward position at the bottom of the pile. Also notice he was wobbly getting up and walking away (similar to the other play).
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There will be lots of puts and takes out of today’s victory, but here’s the bottom line:. For a Miami Dolphins team that has been criticized for being fragile front runners, this game was a measure of GRIT.
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The Miami Dolphins are 4-0 since the NFL trade deadline passed, effectively ending the steady drum beat of Deshaun Watson trade speculation and reporting.
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That was about 2 yards, right @stephenasmith?.
“TuA cAN’t THrow ThE dEEp BaLL” How bout yal shut the fudge up and respect his gangsta. @Tua @cheetah .
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I know there’s a crowd that are like, “QB wins don’t mean anything,” but the Dolphins are 12-6 when Tua Tagovailoa plays and 5-7 when he doesn’t. That’s got to mean SOMETHING, especially when you find out he audibled into game-winning plays like he did vs. the Patriots and Jets.
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The ‘99 Rams, who the Dolphins are often compared to offensively, never beat an above-0.500 team until the playoffs. They did win the Super Bowl tho, so I suppose that counts for something. Also the Chargers are a 0.500 team so, bit of manipulation going on with the phrasing.
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Shaq Barrett signed a contract, suddenly retired on the eve of camp, told @heykayadams Tampa is the only team he’d unretire for. Then with ZERO communication he pulled shenanigans to try and force Miami to make a snap decision so could go on a playoff run with…the Eagles?. If.
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Chase Claypool did some good work for Miami today. He had a tremendous key block on a crucial 4th & Short screen to Tyreek Hill. He also made a nice play after the catch on his lone reception as a Dolphin. He’s on his way to earning regular duties.
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If it was a lawn dart we’d be at a funeral.
How in the hell did Tua fit that ball in for Hill to catch? My goodness.
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Jevon Holland nearly gets the interception but doesn’t, nearly knocks down the pass but doesn’t, nearly gets the tackle but doesn’t. At this rate he nearly gets paid but doesn’t.
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Hey remember that time ‘athletically limited’ Miami Heat 1st round pick Jaime Jaquez Jr. beat K.J. Martin and Drake London in a dunk contest with Scottie Pippen casting the deciding vote?
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Weird to me that the Dolphins were 3-0 with Tua and are 0-3 without Tua and the plural narrative out there right now is that the Dolphins have so many problems that it doesn’t matter who is at QB. Ummm….
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Normally when a rookie RB goes for 233 yards and 4 TDs in what was pretty much his de facto rookie debut, you wouldn’t stop talking about it for weeks. But somehow it feels like fourth or fifth down the list. Insane.
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This only applies to Dolphins and we all know it. It’s been a targeted witch hunt as several people became unfairly convinced the Dolphins covered up a concussion in Week 3. It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you, which they are and have been. It’s ok to admit it.
Hey @NFL & @NFLPA this is a concussion! He takes a hit to the head and wobbles. How is he not in protocol? #DoubleStandard
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Miami has played on the road twice, without Terron Armstead twice, without Jalen Ramsey twice, and without Jaelan Phillips once. Yet they have the highest Overall team rating on PFF. That's a fast start.
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I don’t think Miami pulls off these acquisitions if Flores continued to be the head coach. The system & McDaniel’s preferences informed Grier’s priorities. Empowering the QB, having a reputable offensive coach & popular system gave them an edge in their sales pitch.
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This is definitely the game that puts a bow on Josh Boyer’s firing.
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What's frustrating for anyone who actually watches is Tua had his best game in a while. He's had great games. But this was an ELITE performance for people who know what they're seeing. Yet there are national media who try their damnedest to dull his shine, and it's weird stuff.
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Post-interception Tua is the most potent QB in the history of the NFL lol.
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Since Mike McDaniel began coaching the Dolphins in 2022, Tua Tagovailoa has thrown 131 passes with Tyreek Hill OFF the field. 102 of 131 for 1,092 yards.5 TD, 0 INT.61.6% success rate.0.285 EPA/play.114.2 passer rating. Courtesy of @waddlehouse17.
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Miami’s most likely playoff path if they win tonight would be home vs Bills, home vs Chiefs, then at Ravens. Their path if they lose tonight is most likely to be at Kansas City, at Baltimore, then at Buffalo. I’m sorry but anyone who wants a loss tonight isn’t rational.
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Dolphins are misbranded as an offensive team. They’re the #1 defense in the NFL since Jalen Ramsey came back. Defensive branded teams are regarded as physical and offensive teams are finesse. That’s the way of it. But people haven’t processed Miami’s evolution into a defensive.
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This is embarrassing safety work here. Even if there was a miscommunication over whether Ramsey should maintain man coverage, which appears to be the issue, you turn around to start yelling at Ramsey DURING THE PLAY??? That’s pee wee ball stuff.
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Tua Tagovailoa is 21 of 25 for 202 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs throwing to WRs not named Tyreek Hill or Jaylen Waddle. That’s a 127 rating. He’s 42 of 63 for 358 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs (102.5 rating) throwing to TEs & RBs. Total 111.4 Passer Rating to players other than Hill & Waddle.
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You can tell Mike Florio feels like the Dolphins just pissed in his corn flakes. He was about to spend 3 months stoking the fires with click bait about Tua being replaced, and the Dolphins just squashed it with one reach-out to a prominent national news-breaker.
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There's a "toughen up buttercup" contingent of fans out there who'd stick up for Brian Flores here, but the thing they should keep in mind is Tua Tagovailoa was coached by NICK SABAN for 3 years. This is about who pulls it off and who doesn't. Ask Minkah Fitzpatrick about that.
“If you woke up every morning and I told you that you suck at what you did, that you don’t belong, that you shouldn’t be here, that you haven’t earned this…. and then someone come and tells you, ‘You are the best fit for this…How you that make you feel?”. - @Tua describes the
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This was a 45-46 yard throw and Tua's velocity and trajectory at this distance was absolutely fine. And I'm not particularly inclined to argue about it because I know what I know.
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