Despite struggling in Week 1 against the Indianapolis Colts, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa isn’t leaving Mmiami any time soon.
Tagovailoa threw two interceptions for the Dolphins on Sunday, which led to some frustrated fans believing the team should part ways with him after the season.
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However, ESPN insider Matt Miller shut down those discussions Monday morning.
“It would cost $79.2M in dead cap space to cut Tua,” Miller wrote in a post on X. “Just getting that info out there before we get too crazy.
Long shorty short: Tagovailoa isn’t going anywhere.
The Dolphins would never willingly take on almost $80 million in dead space, and the team has also not shown any signs of even benching the star quarterback, much less cutting ties with him altogether.
Miami knows its best chances of making the playoffs this season involve Tagovailoa being under center. Head coach Mike McDaniel was the first to admit Sunday that the game’s result wasn’t solely on his quarterback.
“Definitely not all on him, at all. … There’s too many people that failed at the execution of their jobs for him to even have any extra on his shoulders,” McDaniel stated in his postgame press conference.
The Dolphins trust Tagovailoa to be their starting quarterback for the rest of the season. If the team would do anything in the offseason, it would be bringing in someone like Daniel Jones to push Tagovailoa to be the best version of himself.
However, even that does not seem like a possibility right now for the Dolphins.
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