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Things are looking weird for Tua Tagovailoa, who keeps trying to look perfect. Does Mike McDaniel still see Tua as the QB to save us... Or would he bench Tua for Zach Wilson? Is Mike McDaniel's job still on the line if they were to pull a stinker and lose to the Jets Week 4?
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00:00and also you know go give us a sack dude we need that i need to do i haven't been able to do it
00:05all year not once in my living room relax on that though he's got 14 games left he's only
00:10he had 10 was his career high why would he won a game he's the only defensive lineman to do a
00:17back-to-back years though or defensive tackle all right so you think he can still get 10 i think so
00:22okay you know like it it's weird that we get mad when guys don't have those numbers
00:29but it's a whole season you know what it is though dude you sign a big contract you start
00:34oh and three everybody's like hey they're looking for solutions from somebody can somebody be a hero
00:38exactly exactly but to be honest bradley chubbs got three sacks to be honest with you
00:44right now it's more important that everybody does their job and nobody goes solo
00:52because sometimes well it was already when you try to reach right you try to do too much
00:59you end up in a bad spot and you give up an even bigger play didn't mike mcdaniel already
01:03throw him under the bus for going leroy jenkins yeah i think he did and and the way he and he
01:11called him out by going leroy jenkins you know jenkins on jenkins crime that don't work
01:16so he went rogue based on what he normally does to point out somebody else going rogue that's not
01:24what would socrates say to that i don't know i'd say don't put darren waller in there for too many snaps
01:32dude that don't get me started what this and like let's be clear some of these things that i'm
01:41talking about have literally nothing to do with darren waller right it has to do with
01:48this guy better come in and be a hall of famer the way we waiting on him right you we
01:55the situation that the dolphins have put him in and he has put himself in
02:00makes it even more difficult for him to be successful because as soon as he plays if he
02:07don't do nothing then guess what
02:09rats off a ship yep uh nfl news titans coach brian callahan has given up the play calling duty
02:19to who uh i guess their offensive coordinator his dad's there
02:28hey hey the offensive line hasn't been the same in cleveland since he left well hasn't been very good
02:36in tennessee because i've been watching those games and yeah but cam ward's running for his life it's a
02:40result of players the cleveland thing was a result of scheme and how they did things mike mcdaniel says
02:47the uh dolphins are ready to get back to work as it relates to the next opponent i think it it has
02:55been beneficial i think the guys um uh uh always after a thursday thursday night game you know it's
03:04it's such a uh taxing endeavor for their bodies so um it i think it was a a good a good weekend spent
03:14uh for us to get back to work because um you know there's i'm never mad at people having better
03:21perspective on how important the work week is and you you lose on thursday night and you have to sit
03:28on it all weekend um that that gets people as motivated as as you could hope um going into the
03:36next um opponent which is what we absolutely need to do we've been sitting in it dude that's for sure
03:41it's been pungent
03:44a little air freshener in here you know what i mean
03:48no i'm not like i'm not doing this why because
03:56i'm not gonna shoot the messenger and that's mike mcdaniel he's relaying the thoughts
04:04and the messages of what it feels like to lose on thursday and have the whole weekend to think about
04:11it and i would say you don't you don't what think about it you got to move forward you got to move
04:20ahead 24 hour rule it's not even that 12 hours it's not there's nothing that frustrates me and
04:27worse than somebody who gets extremely upset about defeat that didn't do everything that
04:36they could during the game i know it's too late now
04:41if you put everything out there and you lose i can handle that okay but don't after the fact
04:50say oh i could have did this this and that no that's what you're supposed to do before the game
04:55what nothing dude no it's always something it's not anything it's not anything okay these guys guys
05:04in the right place you know what i think these guys guys in the right mindset you know
05:08it's like bob seger said dude yeah we go turn the page
05:15bob seger yeah and the silver bullet band i was thinking about seger at full house sorry
05:22bob saget yeah yeah not the same guy i know no i know i know it was the same guy you remember when
05:31bob seger said that though right no i don't but that's when you said bob see i'm like the comedian
05:36no it's bob no i know like why would i make me rest in peace look at me look at me he's also dead
05:44yeah well i was talking about um saget yeah oh yeah so let me ask you a question oh no
05:49why would i know you say you like all types of music i do you know i really do i feel like in
05:54stadiums they're playing that old time rock and roll a bunch of times oh yeah that's true
05:58but maybe not to turn the page not really a stadium bob no
06:02nope because you can't have the little chillies dancing to that
06:07no that's not a good too sad sad sad
06:10oh dart named new starting quarterback in new york yeah that sounded like it was gonna go that
06:19you didn't even make it a month after drawing for almost 700 yards
06:24we knew that where that was going
06:27it felt very much like it was going that way
06:30dude that is the perfect definition of a street streets need a body because they more like
06:37hey russ come here let me talk to you for a minute listen i know it's unfortunate right
06:44um we said what are they one and two the giants or in three i think they're on three
06:50oh when three you do for 450 like you are unstoppable uh we're sorry that dallas's kicker has a leg made
06:59of titanium but but let me let me say this um you know working in this the big apple working in new
07:07york these streets need a body it ain't gonna be me this was a day ball yesterday after a one day
07:16any um thoughts on what you're gonna do with quarterback moving forward we just watched the
07:20tape here we're in the meetings with the players right now you know like i said yesterday you know
07:25in order to improve the passing game and i'd say that was the number one thing we
07:29needed to improve from from yesterday a collective as a collective everybody's got to be
07:34doing exactly the right stuff so it's not all not all one guy you know there's multiple reasons
07:41why you know certain plays didn't you know come out the way we wanted to come out and we'll continue
07:46to do that so russ russ remains the starter moving forward yeah i mean we're working we're
07:51working through you know all personnel decisions and we'll do that over the next few days
07:56hold on so you're not saying russ is the starter right you're saying you're still working through
07:59that yeah we're doing what we normally do which is watch the tape we're just watching it with the
08:05players right now so um you know we'll have staff meetings after this when we come in we watch the
08:11tape offense defense kicking game as a staff and then we go meet with the players that's where we're
08:15at right now let me say what you normally do i don't most monday afternoons you know who your
08:19quarterback's gonna be the upcoming week if everyone's healthy though it just seems a little
08:22different your responses now you gotta go yeah well look we're going through the tape right now we're
08:26evaluating everything so quarterback change is on the table i'd say we're evaluating everything
08:31well they evaluated it jackson dart is like you see how you see how coaches or people could get upset
08:38yeah but he was doing coach speak do-si-do well you gotta pin him down all right i got you
08:44he was being a little squirrely i understood why they did that but you see what neighbors said
08:49after the game what he said he said he was very frustrated obviously very visibly frustrated because
08:55russ threw it away on fourth down yeah but he even said he was like it's not the quarterback
08:59he was like it wasn't daniel jones it's not the quarterback that's not the problem here
09:03but so he sounds like a coach but you can change the quarterback and get a reprieve
09:09i know he's alluding that it's the coach's problem all these fans i'm gonna see jackson dart
09:15and they're gonna all get excited and they're gonna forget about the real reasons why their team
09:19isn't any good it's this the other thing too and this is kind of like and it doesn't mean that
09:23dayball is gonna keep his job but let's be real about it's amazing they kept their job after last
09:26year um this is your this is your hail mary as a coach like this is oh let's hope the
09:33rookie's really good and then we can say we're building on something for next year i get to keep
09:37my gig daniel jones is doing fine he is doing fine you know somebody need to lose their job if daniel
09:43jones goes and has you would have thought somebody lost their job for letting saquon barkley walk to
09:46a champion and that didn't happen so think about that you kept daniel jones and let saquon walk
09:55and then you got rid of daniel jones and both of them are playing yeah i mean it's it's crazy
10:01well that's the thing like neighbors literally said he was like it wasn't dg it wasn't it's not
10:05like it's not the quarterback the quarterback's not the problem which like if your best player
10:09said i mean he is essentially their best player right now is saying that like
10:13that's scary so
10:17question with with all this stuff going on right
10:25and you got a guy who let saquon go yep and paid daniel jones and then got rid of daniel jones yep
10:34like
10:35i mean that's more of a solid situation than down here
10:42because at least more of an egregious situation yeah only because at least but only because two
10:48was on another team it would be like if two went to another team right now and balled out
10:51it would be the same thing right now the dolphins are just stuck with i mean we do have a lot of
10:56players balling out on other teams you don't think there's any like do you think there's anything
10:59to it could do this year where he gets benched because he's been he's been bad he's this is the
11:04worst this is this has been the worst he's played football here's why because
11:08sometimes
11:11sometimes players and coaches get into their mind how they want something to look
11:18and they go out and try to perform and do that thing and it doesn't look right
11:24and i think two is trying so hard to get rid of the ball that he's not going through his natural
11:30progression maybe he's not i'm just asking if he continues playing like this
11:34and he turns over the ball the way that he has and it's it's been a lot no no there's no how many
11:38chances they have four four four and three games in two games um two of them to end games and he
11:48got away with one because of a because of all sending penalties so he would have five it doesn't
11:52count then whatever dude it doesn't count all right fine doesn't count still not good i don't
11:58think there's any situation that they've benched no situation i think they're only ways if mike
12:03mcdaniel's not your head coach if he gets fired i still don't think they would you don't think
12:07mike mcdaniel wants to take zach wilson out for a spin no i think he i think he genuinely thinks
12:11that two is the best person to get like is the best option to get him a win his offense is created
12:18around him at the end of the day hot seat's a funny thing though like it's different when
12:22everything's gravy and you're you're you know you look at two as the the reason you have the job is
12:26because you looked upon as fixing tua now all of a sudden if two is let's just say two is more
12:31banged up he's just not the same guy this year he hasn't looked like the same guy but it's it's
12:36weird how he's looked like he looks extremely antsy right like the sudden turns and and i don't know
12:44why right like you know what it and here's here's the problem and a lot of things that we do when you
12:56try too hard to do something well it doesn't always look right a lot of times when you have to believe it
13:04attitude you just relax and go play and so tua seems like he's trying so hard to be so perfect
13:10that it's not it doesn't look right you know whereas before he kind of had a little cockiness
13:20to him where i'm just playing football or whatever and he seemed to have more success so i don't know
13:26what the answer is but let's say to it goes out there monday night football if the dolphins lose
13:30monday night football just flat out lose and they drop to own four people are going to be wondering
13:34about mike mcdaniel's job status like that's gonna that's gonna be a thing of course so two is not
13:39up for that like as as the highest paid player on the team if he goes let's say he has a two
13:44interception game against the jets and they lose like you don't think steven ross is like i'm down
13:49he's like hey man what should we look in another direction like should we he goes you want to take i don't
13:55think i don't think yours you want to try you want to try zach wilson i don't think that they would
13:59ever do that because your best option is playing quarterback
14:05like those other two guys aren't going to be close to what tua does what you have to do is get two out
14:13of his own way that's coaching right that's getting him right in the right spot mentally because
14:20sometimes you you get into a situation where you try so hard that it looks terrible and it just looks
14:26like he's trying to be so perfect and trying not to let give him the ball send him in the game and go
14:35play football whatever that entails right like it seems like there's too many situations where he's
14:42trying to do the right thing he's not playing football no i understand but most like most people in
14:48the sport like you're gonna have a a leash on this stuff russell wasn't more accomplished than two
14:54is maybe he's not done the stuff with the giants but he's got more of a pedigree than two it does
14:58yeah you know it like i'm just saying is there a break there's never a breaking point there is a
15:03breaking point we just not there yet no i'm not saying but i don't but are we that far off
15:08is it one game is it two games of stinkers i'm talking he's got a stink right i'm talking he's got a
15:13stink right like if his play is poorly for a couple yeah then you might you might think about doing
15:19something like that however like let's not put this you know all on to i'm one of those people
15:28that believes oh if you change the quarterback would this team be better i don't necessarily know
15:33that i don't either so i don't either
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