Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald react to Miami’s 31-6 loss in Cleveland – dropping the Dolphins to 1-6 on the season – and why the team is looking at likely changes both at quarterback and on the sidelines. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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This is terrible, but I’m gonna say it anyway, um, when I saw that this game going into halftime, what was the score going into halftime?
It was, uh, 17 to 6, right?
I put this, then that’s when this game became a fixture on one of my quad boxes because I was like, oh, we got Tua in the second half, needing multiple scores against the Browns’ defensive line.
Like, I am locked into that.
Uh, and then the second it went just as poorly as I think we all thought it would.
Uh, on 12 dropbacks, he had 56 passing yards, 0 touchdowns, 3 picks, um, minus 1.6 EPA per dropback.
I mean, just I, I don’t, I don’t think you can put him out there again.
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I think you have to bench Tua because.
Well, sure, at least Quinn’s ain’t talking crap about his teammates and then going through 3 interceptions against the Browns.
Like, I don’t know, that’s not tenable.
I can’t not like you and you’re throwing picks like that’s, that’s not, that’s no good.
So, I think they have to consider it because this is just not.
Because there was nothing because they got pants.
You can’t keep doing this.
You can’t keep getting pants and you can’t keep giving yourself no chance to win in crunch time.
No, I know, and you can’t keep, uh, I mean, like something’s gonna happen, like just something.
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It just can’t, this is a long season.
We’re not even halfway there.
We just, just, this is, I mean, we said it; one of the early games for them was they felt like just a white flag already.
They lose the Colts week one, I think it was.
That’s what it just felt like; it was just like a white flag already because none of the guys wanted to do.
Tua has the strengths where it’s like, get the ball quick and his accuracy.
But this is where, you know, like the Herbert Tua things and just maybe what the, the whole arguments about quarterback traits even.
Is that there was a throw he had today.
It was a 10 yard out route.
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He was on his own, uh, same hash, so it wasn’t a field out route.
And he has to, he can’t step into it cause he has a little pressure.
He throws it and the ball nosedives on him.
Like it actually like, like it wasn’t a throw where it was just aimless and it just missed.
It was just that he threw it to the right spot with the right timing, but the ball just didn’t have enough oomph and it actually tilted like it was a fade ball.
And that’s just what I mean.
I was like, where are you having those limitations, and like you said, you can’t talk like that and throw the interceptions.
So if you’re now you’re turning the ball over.
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Man, and I think, you know, head coach wise it’s just like McDaniels is just every week out there, every press conference is sadder and sadder.
It’s just, it’s pretty tough to watch right now.
It’s like, just please do something, trade somebody, do something, please just do something.
I can’t keep watching this.
I can’t, I can’t hands up and just wait, wait until the guillotine at the end of the season.
Just wait for the guillotine, that’s all they’re doing.