Examining all of the Dolphins options to get out Tua Tagovailoa's contract

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Running through the various options the Dolphins will have over the next few months in regards to Tua Tagovailoa's future with the organization.

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00:09so this is what ian rapaport wrote about tua and the possibility of him being released okay

00:17if the dolphins this is ian rapaport from nfl network saying hey here's a possibility

00:23if the dolphins release to uh this off season and they release before june 1st is basically

00:33impossible because the dolphins owe him a fully guaranteed 54 million dollars it would set a new

00:40record cap hit of 99.2 million dollars so if they really if they go but that would be a way for

00:48stephen ross to say hey look how dedicated i am give you a hundred million to winning although

00:55it's a cap hit though 99.2 million dollars you'd have to hate him with every fiber of your being

01:03he would have to kidnap your kids or something 99 and even then you'd wait till after june 1st

01:10miami could spread that out if he's designated as a post june 1st cut 67 million in 2026

01:1831.8 million in 2027 it would be costly but denver did it and miami could similarly withstand

01:27such a hit if it decides that's what's best for the franchise a trade pre-june 1st would leave 45.2

01:38million dollars of dead money against the dolphin salary cap another option which seems more viable

01:46is pay down some of his salary next offseason and trade him as a bridge quarterback for a team

01:55in transition or one that has a young qb that they'd like to sit would a team pay a portion

02:03of to his salary to have him as a bridge starter likely they would this is what the dolphins offseason

02:12in part will be about that last option i actually have something written down about this why keep

02:18mcdaniel might be intelligent with thinking about the what was that fourth option you keep mcdaniel

02:25because he's the one you know that can maximize to his performance it wouldn't say it against the

02:30ravens but the week before we saw we've seen to play very well in mcdaniel's offense you maximize

02:36toa to up his trade value or his attention to another team so that you can trade him pay it down

02:42like you say the broncos they were russell wilson move on from him keep mcdaniel to maximize toa when

02:49toa leaves you fire him so the new coach and gm coming together that big three you're talking about

02:55new coach new gm they get to go pick their quarterback i mean it's an interesting conversation

03:01to be having which is how are you going to get rid of tua because that's where they're at now

03:09and like i said it's going to be very interesting to see what happens in the buffalo game sunday

03:13because now we know that stephen ross obviously likes mike mcdaniel we don't know if he feels the

03:20same way or if mike mcdaniel feels the same way still about to it like we don't know the interpersonal

03:26relationships but it is interesting who got their phone on it's my son well he's got he's on

03:34breakthrough so i it always rings but uh good looking boy yeah well i'm not gonna take it i'm

03:41not gonna take it he's calling you during the show he has no clue when i work no no no maybe he

03:47has a boozele's take or something uh i actually when i saw the phone ringing i first thought to

03:53myself do the bulls play tonight because if the bulls play tonight i would answer the call

03:57but they don't play tonight so it can't be that important um but i i i think that the dolphins are

04:05at this point where it's like how do we move on without tua and so when i say i'm really interested

04:13to see how they perform sunday against the bills like again the team's being sold out off if they can

04:23we know jalen phillips is gone i'm assuming there's going to be more the gm is gone the coach is

04:30ostensibly coaching for his career which is silly because they're taking away pieces which like the

04:36whole thing is silly and then you have to imagine that tua like you said is kind of on display now

04:42he's he's being displayed for other teams who might be interested in a bridge quarterback

04:49how on earth can a team function when all of this is going on i find this to be voyeuristically

04:59a remarkable exercise in sport yeah in business you know it's like if you're working for a place and

05:08they tell you oh yeah we're shutting down at the end of the month it's like well how is everyone going

05:13to function from november 3rd till the end of the month when we know we're going out of business

05:19and that has to be how it feels around the facility like hey this like this incarnation

05:27is going out of business dolphins aren't going out of business but this incarnation what we've built

05:33with with chris greer and like this incarnation this is a going out of business sale yeah i don't

05:40know how they're going to react and respond it's going to be fascinating the roster's a car

05:44we know the engine and the carburetor don't work you're the blinker hey i'm a pretty good blinker

05:53but this car is about to be sold off you you're going with that going on how does that affect you

05:59mentally i'm telling you i said earlier it's going to be like they're saying everybody's praising because

06:05you know what the line is they're still playing for mcdaniel we're going to see on sunday

06:09playing against a good team if they're still playing what if they don't have players that

06:14are are of value the roster that was constructed as a two and six roster now that's true now it's

06:20going to be less than a two and six roster yeah i mean what do you expect out of that but you've

06:24only lost right now you've only lost jalen philip no no but what if you lose minka what if you lose

06:30jalen waddle but those guys i mean jalen waddle is a different conversation right but like minka

06:35jalen philips bradley chubb i'm not saying they're not great players they are but have they

06:43really made this colossal impact you're two and six those are the guys that were supposed to keep

06:47you from being two and six solana not a colossal impact but the guys that they beat out are worse

06:53than them that's that's what i was about to say they haven't made a colossal impact so imagine

06:58the players who couldn't beat them out for positions then being the guys who are in charge

07:06so using the quarterback remember when tim boyle and them got in the game last year

07:09think about bradley's tim boyle right now he's playing dm this is what i'm talking about with

07:14whatever jalen philips's snaps are going to be taken by somebody that's not jalen philips

07:19dolphins are eight and a half point home dogs by the way against buffalo i would lay the point it feels

07:24like they're begging you because you you saw buffalo last night and you can't imagine that

07:32the dolphins are in this great frame of mind like hey let's go out and show them that

07:37uh we're the competitors in the afc like strong-minded individuals yeah if they're smart in that building

07:48they're they're they're preaching go out here and show off put on film what you want the world to

07:54see don't tell me we're making a playoff run don't tell me we're turning this around go out here and

08:01prove that you belong in this league and show everybody else the guy in front of you win your

08:05one-on-one battle there's a lot of way to say go out here and play to the best of your ability because

08:09you're probably not going to be on this team or if you are it's going to be a new coaching staff a new

08:13gym a new everything go put on film what you want the football world to see every single snap

08:19that should be the message and back to the tour thing real quick to your point there's options now

08:24and they're putting it out like we know there's there's options of two of leaving is there any

08:29way that you're upset by that is there anybody out there like is there still a two or nine or

08:33whatever they call it uh it would bother me i this is going to sound crazy bother you based on who

08:39comes in that doesn't matter hawk you have to cut ties you have to get divorced you there's you

08:45don't have another wife lined up you just have to get divorced i guess i i guess i mean theoretically

08:50you're correct but also i don't you don't have to get divorced next year you really don't i i

08:55understand the idea of trading tua and if you pay part of his salary another team pays part of his

09:00salary and you can kind of start finding the next guy i realize that but the reality of the situation

09:05is you're on the hook for a ton of money here and you're probably not in a position next year

09:10where you're going to be contending for a super bowl this could be a situation where tua plays

09:15one more season in miami you don't think they're going to contend for a super bowl next season

09:19hey you know what though it's not out of the question because in my group chat today i'll just

09:23say this in my group chat today my my my guys are like oh well this this means three more years of

09:29tanking before we're even maybe good and i said hey there's a lot of examples around the nfl

09:33where teams go from being really bad one season like the dolphins are this year

09:37they clean house new regime and next year not that they're the patriots of tom brady but their

09:45playoff teams the never broncos what's your text thread called one flew over the cuckoo's nest

09:50damn dummies that's what it's called a group of damn the washington commanders hawk the washington

09:55commander i'm not having this conversation i had this conversation with this roster before the

10:00season started i'm not having this conversation now the colts they turn shane steikin and daniel

10:04jones turned it around season i'm with you the the commanders turned around the patriots right now

10:09took them four years went through two what second coaches rabel i understand what you're saying

10:13is to a part of that i do not believe that i don't think i don't think you should but i'm being

10:19realistic here you're looking hawk just read you the numbers the idea that somebody's trading for

10:23to a tongue of iloa given how bad he's played this season or how bad he's looked at times this season

10:28given how much money he's owed given the the media circus that comes with to a tongue of iloa and

10:35given the fact that the guy is one hit away from a bigger media circus and potentially fencing up on

10:41the field i i think just expecting as in rapidport lays out that another team would be willing to trade

10:48for him i'm not saying they wouldn't but i i think i i'm just being realistic someone i got i got

10:54the saints yeah there you go well no yeah i mean you're not gonna bench shuck you want shuck to

11:00develop yeah the rattlers terrible we pay 50 we pay 48 million they pay the rest you let him

11:07kind of show shuck the ropes you're not going to be good anyway you know they're not the saints aren't

11:12paying they don't have any big money people they probably have the salary cap space you let shuck

11:16develop and then to it i don't know goes to hawaii i don't there's a mountain lives on a mountain

11:20i don't know if he could let to a run i'm i'm just just go out that's grown man abuse let her let him

11:28run if they let him run let him run go toe-to-toe with josh allen wipe out the memory of you saying

11:36you can't do half of what he does this sunday toe-to-toe if he scrambles for 36 yards you better

11:42scramble for 37 and they're gonna call grown man protective services on mcdaniel drop your

11:48shoulder don't slide drop your shoulder shoulders next to his head

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