Dolphins

Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa said that the team potentially playing for HC Mike McDaniels‘ job isn’t on their mind.

“You know, I understand the question,” Tagovailoa said, via PFT. “I know there’s a lot of talk outside about certain individuals, certain people. But I think more so with last week’s game, I think it shows the togetherness of our team. And I don’t think it’s anyone playing for themselves. More so, it really is everyone playing for each other — everyone having to do their job, having the conviction to do their job, and each individual trusting that if I do my job, I’ve got to trust that this guy is going to do his job as well and not try to play hero ball where [it’s], alright, I don’t know if he’s going to do that, so I’m going to go out of my job, out of my way to maybe do his. Then when he does his and you don’t do yours, I think that’s where things fall apart where we’ve got to play with conviction, we just continue to stick together, play together, and I don’t think anyone’s worried about any of that external noise when it comes to that.

“When we play this game, we know what we sign up for. And we know this is a business as well. We want to play for each other. We’re going to do everything we can — we don’t prepare to go out there and think, hey we want to do bad, we want to lose this game. No, we go out there with our hearts, with our minds for war — like that’s what it is, essentially. So, yeah.”

• The Dolphins have parted ways with co-directors of player personnel Adam Engroff and Anthony Hunt. (Tom Pelissero)

Jets

Former Jets QB Jordan Travis commented on the criticism that owner Woody Johnson had for QB Justin Fields, and noted a similar experience he had after being drafted yet never playing due to injury.

“I gotta tell you, that guy, no disrespect, but there were things said to me, not obviously to that point because I never got on the field to play, but about my leg,” Travis said. “Like, just slick comments, I don’t know if he was trying to be slick about it. You know how some older people just say whatever comes to their mind, and it kind of made me feel a certain type of way. ‘You ever gonna get healthy?’ And I’m just like, ‘Damn.’ Not like, ‘How are you feeling?’ Never that, it was always comments like that. It kind of upset me, but kind of rolled over my head.”

• ESPN’s Dan Graziano says, based on everything he’s heard from the Jets, Fields will be the starter on Thursday night. However, he might have a short leash, and the mini bye before New York’s next game could be an opportunity for them to turn to veteran QB Tyrod Taylor....