Channing Crowder is outraged at the Dolphins not knowing who their backup QB is in Week 7

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Quinn Ewers was named QB2 for Miami on Sunday but the battle for the backup QB is apparently a week to week decision.

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00:00Mike McDaniel has his Monday press conference that's just happened.

00:04David Fironas in the Sun Sentinel tweets out, Mike McDaniel told reporters

00:10in Miami Gardens, Tua Tonga-Vailoa remains the starting quarterback

00:15for the team.

00:18So that change isn't going to happen.

00:20And by the way, if your boss and your owner preach patience

00:25and stand by you, who would you be to not preach patience

00:32and stand by your man, Tua Tonga-Vailoa?

00:36But this is a terrible cycle to be in.

00:38I was going to say, Hulk.

00:40But it is what it is.

00:43So nothing.

00:44So just get your ass kicked over and over.

00:47Everything stays the same.

00:49No adjustments, no anything.

00:50Well, that seems to be the plan.

00:52Man, I'm not down with it, but that seems to be the plan.

00:56No matter how far it sinks, nothing is changing.

01:02Because don't tell me that some cursory change on the offensive line

01:08or, you know what I mean?

01:09Like, don't tell me some cursory change is going to be the big change.

01:14You know, oh, Ollie Gordon's inactive.

01:17That's how, you know, it's like, all right, give me some meat and potatoes.

01:21Like, don't throw me a little corn niblet special on the side

01:26and tell me that that's the big change to the menu.

01:29Here's just a couple other notes from David Fioranis.

01:32Mike McDaniel said, we need to fix things and fast.

01:37Everyone, including myself, especially me.

01:40Quinn Ewers had mentioned as the backup quarterback being week-to-week

01:47between him and Zach Wilson.

01:49Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said the same moments ago.

01:52This is now a week-to-week competition between Zach Wilson and Quinn Ewers

01:57to be the backup.

01:59And Mike McDaniel, David Fioranis tweets,

02:03said his conversation with Dolphins owner Stephen Ross

02:06had to do with the game itself.

02:09So if you think they had some sort of grand conversation

02:14about coaching and ideas and where the organization is headed,

02:23that doesn't seem to be the case.

02:25It seems like they had a small conversation about the game itself.

02:31It wasn't small.

02:32I just, based on somebody I talked to who was there,

02:36Stephen Ross was in that coach's locker room after the game

02:40for a lot longer than he normally is.

02:44A lot, lot longer.

02:45That was a conversation after the game.

02:47But I wonder what that means.

02:48Is he normally in there for five minutes?

02:50Right.

02:50I don't know.

02:50The cursory visit, and then it's 15 minutes,

02:52which however long it was in there,

02:54I don't think it was enough time to solve anything.

02:57Maybe he had bad guts.

02:59That's why he was calling those plays.

03:00He was trying to get it over with.

03:01Or he didn't want to see anyone else.

03:03He's like, hey, coach, I'm going to hang out in here for a while

03:05because I don't want to see anybody.

03:07With that Quinn Ewers thing, I'm 42.

03:11I've been playing.

03:12I played football since I was nine, watching it now for, what, 30-plus years.

03:17Solana, you're, what, 20-plus years of football.

03:20Hawk, 72 years you've been watching football.

03:22You're going to do this again?

03:23You're going to do this all day long?

03:24But, no, I'm just messing around.

03:26You're on thin ice, buddy.

03:27When is the last time, at any level, you're evaluating in week seven

03:33who the backup quarterback is on your team?

03:35That's crazy, right?

03:36And I identified that as such a big problem last season,

03:39which they knew was a problem last season.

03:41And now they're seven weeks in.

03:43And, again, this doesn't mean spit.

03:46But they're seven weeks in, like you said,

03:48and they don't know who their better backup quarterback is?

03:51If it's Zach, if it's Quinn, we're in the worst situation even with Tua

03:56throwing four interceptions, three interceptions, sorry.

03:59But it just kind of adds to the narrative of the dysfunction in Miami.

04:04Tua with the player-only meetings,

04:06McDaniel with the people-missing meetings last season.

04:08And now just think about, you talk about embarrassing Ross.

04:12Think about the other teams.

04:13They're sitting there listening to this too.

04:15Oh, the Dolphins don't know who's better between Zach and Quinn right now?

04:19Yo, this is crazy talk, man.

04:22Talk about dysfunction.

04:24This is crazy talk.

04:26There is no way I've ever been on a team where I don't know who's –

04:30if Chris Leak got hurt, I knew who was going in.

04:32If Cleo Lemon got hurt, I knew who was going in.

04:35Oh, Tua's out?

04:37Is it Quinn or is it Zach?

04:38That's crazy to be on a team with that dysfunction.

04:42I got to call it what it is.

04:43I think there's way better examples of dysfunction than this

04:46only because – isn't this what you do with a seventh-round pick?

04:50You draft him, you take a flyer on him,

04:52and you hope that, hey, he comes in and he proves something to you.

04:56He impresses you.

04:57And Crowder, maybe over the past couple weeks,

04:59he's shown you he's matured in practice reps,

05:02and he's shown you that he's actually good enough to be,

05:05at this very moment, the backup quarterback.

05:07But then you don't do a big thing about how we identified Zach Wilson

05:11as the guy who we want to back up to.

05:15Like, this is, to me, smacks of the offensive line conversation.

05:19Oh, you guys are more worried about it than we are, and it was terrible.

05:22You made a big show of we hand-picked Zach Wilson

05:28because they watched what happened when Tim Boyle and Tyler Huntley came in.

05:32We hand-picked Zach Wilson, and now you're saying,

05:36well, we probably didn't need to do that because Quinn Ewers is just as good

05:40or maybe Zach Wilson is just as bad.

05:43I'm with you.

05:43I'm not saying that this is a shining light on Mike McDaniel

05:48and that this is a silver lining.

05:50I'm just telling you, Zach Wilson was coming in as a reclamation project,

05:55and maybe they thought, hey, there could be shades of a Baker Mayfield.

05:59There could be shades of numerous examples around the NFL.

06:04Maybe that's what they thought, and now six weeks in,

06:06they're looking at a quarterback who, you know what, probably just isn't that good,

06:10and why not give the guy that we drafted the opportunity over him

06:14considering the circumstances of you're entering that game 1-5, Crowder.

06:19Like, the point of Zach Wilson was, hey, you're battling for a playoff position.

06:25Tua's out for a game because his rib gets hurt

06:27or he breaks his finger on his throwing hand.

06:30You need your quarterback, your backup to come in.

06:32Zach Wilson won game and won you that game.

06:35But at this point in the season, Zach Wilson doesn't matter.

06:39You don't want him to come in and do anything.

06:41You'd rather go to the young guy that you drafted and give him the reps.

06:45But no, no, no, no.

06:46If you say that, I'm with you.

06:48It was presented as it's week to week for them to figure out

06:53who gives them a best chance of scoring a touchdown on a given possession.

06:57What the hell were they doing in camp?

07:00What the hell were they doing in OTAs?

07:02He got drafted in what?

07:03When was the draft?

07:04May?

07:05June?

07:05July?

07:06In August?

07:08You still don't know who gives your team a better chance to score a touchdown

07:11or get in field goal range?

07:13It sounds crazy.

07:15And to be honest, what quarterback?

07:17Because somebody last week was Dylan Gabriel.

07:19One of those guys have to be the scout team guy.

07:21You're watching him run a scout team card?

07:24Oh, man, he threw that Browns route real nice.

07:27He might be better than Zach Wilson.

07:28I see what you're saying with what does it help your team to put Zach Wilson?

07:33I understand your narrative.

07:34Let the young guy get some burns.

07:36See if he can play at this level.

07:37I fully understand you.

07:38From the organizational standpoint, how do you not know who you're going to put in

07:42if Tua – I don't even want to put injury on him.

07:46If Tua tears his foot, his shoe breaks, and he has to miss a snap.

07:49No, he just keeps playing the way that he's playing.

07:51Then you're going to – I mean, you're going to have to make a move.

07:54Think about that.

07:55Blitz.

07:56Boom.

07:57Tua's down.

07:57He's holding his ribs.

07:58Hey, who's going in?

08:00Zach or Quinn?

08:01What are you talking about?

08:05You don't know your backup quarterback.

08:07That's – I've never heard of this in my life.

08:09I didn't even hear him say this dumb stuff today.

08:11It sounds crazy.

08:12I don't know your backup quarterback.

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