A short time ago, ESPN’s Adam Schefter confirmed that the Miami Dolphins would be benching starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa after the team’s dreadful 28-15 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Instead of Tua at the helm, owner Stephen Ross, interim general manager Champ Kelly, and head coach Mike McDaniel will get an up-close look at what rookie QB Quinn Ewers brings to the table.
Starting Ewers, however, isn’t the only move the Dolphins made today to prepare for the future of the franchise, and the youth movement that is imminent.
According to NFL Insider Jordan Schultz, the Dolphins are releasing veteran...
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The Miami Dolphins have decided to bench starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The move comes in the midst of Tagovailoa’s worst statistical season, including a career- and league-high 15 interceptions thrown in 14 games. His 88.5 passer rating is the worst of his career since his rookie season.
For a quarterback who led the league in passer rating in 2022, passing yards in 2023, and completion percentage in 2024, the fall off in 2025 has been precipitous. On Monday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers, he was 22-for-28 for 253 yards with two touchdowns and an interception,...
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The Miami Dolphins have officially been eliminated from playoff contention following their embarrassing loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football. It wasn’t a good look for a lot of folks within the organization, but the defeat was especially deflating for head coach Mike McDaniel and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, as their once-dominant passing game has been grounded in confounding fashion this year.
Time will tell if the team chooses to move on from McDaniel and/or Tagovailoa this offseason, but it should be abundantly clear to owner Stephen Ross that this team, as currently constructed, has no chance of returning...
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Change may be coming to the Miami Dolphins offense sooner rather than later at the quarterback position. Mike McDaniel met with the media yesterday to discuss a variety of topics after losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night. One of those topics revolved around the quarterback position and Tua Tagovailoa. The offense was lifeless against the Steelers the other night and Tua looked horrible running the offense. Even during the four game win streak, Tua wasn’t playing great. Which is why McDaniel stated in his conference that everything is on the table, meaning Tua could be on the bench...
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Well, that couldn’t have gone much worse, I suspect. At least some of us have been around long enough that we had already braced for the time when our Miami Dolphins would give us hope, only to pull away any hope, ala Lucy pulling that football away from Charlie Brown at the last second. I guess that this season still counts for something, as some of the rookies have really come on as of late. Additionally, I have concluded that Tua Tagovailoa has lost all confidence, and I don’t know that he will ever regain it, at least in a...
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The Miami Dolphins traveled to Pittsburgh to play the Steelers on Monday Night Football in week fifteen only to be embarrassed by their opponents to the tune of a 28-15 final score that really wasn’t fully indicative of how poorly the team played.
One player whose warts were on display for the entire world to see was quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
On Tuesday, during his availability with the South Florida media, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel didn’t rule out the possibility that someone other than Tagovailoa would be manning the quarterback spot for the Dolphins against the Cincinnati Bengals this upcoming...
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The Miami Dolphins embarrassingly fell out of the NFL playoff picture on Monday night when they were smacked around Acrisure Stadium by the Pittsburgh Steelers in a nationally televised game. Miami had no answers for their AFC North opponents and, despite a couple of late touchdowns, they were never close to competing in the game. The offense came out flat and did not find a rhythm until they were being blown out of the water. The defense tried to step up, but eventually crumbled under the Steelers’ onslaught. And the special teams made mistakes that only exacerbated the rest of...
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Same old Dolphins.
The Miami Dolphins’ playoff hopes were ended on Monday night, following a 15-28 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 15. The team will now miss the playoffs for the second consecutive season, after making the playoffs in back-to-back seasons in 2022 and 2023.
Against the Steelers, the Dolphins looked timid, sloppy, and at times, even apathetic. Here’s three reasons why they weren’t able to win the game.
Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is perhaps the most polarizing player on the Dolphins, if not the league.
But last night, there was nothing polarizing about...
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Well, the Miami Dolphins did that thing again. You know… the thing where they go on primetime television and embarrass themselves for the whole world to see. Or maybe that thing where they play in cold weather and look completely inept on the offensive side of the football. There is also that thing where they play against an above .500 squad and prove why they don’t belong in the conversation of best football teams in the National Football League.
Pick your poison.
After a deflating 28-15 loss on Monday Night Football to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Dolphins are officially eliminated...
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Well the win streak was fun while it lasted, but that came to an end last night when the Miami Dolphins lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Dolphins didn’t rely on their stellar running game in the first half and it came back to bite them as they couldn’t sustain drives. It’s become pretty clear that the team cannot rely on QB Tua Tagovailoa as he makes questionable decisions and just doesn’t have the arm. Though not all the blame should be on Tua as the defense was unable to make plenty of tackles that resulted in big gains. With...
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Our Miami Dolphins head into this evening’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers off a divisional win over the New York Jets, 34-10. Miami also enters the week on a four-game win streak, something that many of us would not have believed possible just a couple of months back. Like Miami, the Steelers come into this game fresh off a solid interdivisional win. The Steelers defeated the Baltimore Ravens 27-22 last week in Baltimore.
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The Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers are in their final preparations for tonight’s Week 15 Monday Night Football contest. Both teams have released their respective inactive players lists, dropping from their regular season active roster size of 53 players down to the gameday limit of 48.
For the Dolphins, the inactive players includes quarterback Quinn Ewers, defensive back Elijah Campbell, cornerback A.J. Green III, offensive lineman Larry Borom, wide receiver Tahj Washington, and defensive tackle Matthew Butler. Campbell was listed as doubtful on the team’s final injury report with an ankle injury while Borom was questionable with an illness.
Ewers...
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