{"id":91674,"date":"2025-12-21T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91674\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:45:08","slug":"miami-dolphins-qb-change-bittersweet-for-texas-coach-steve-sarkisian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91674\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins\u2019 QB change \u2018bittersweet\u2019 for Texas coach Steve Sarkisian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Dolphins are playing the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday with Quinn Ewers as their starting quarterback. The seventh-round rookie from Texas had taken 12 regular-season snaps in his NFL career before drawing the starting assignment<\/a> for Miami\u2019s 15th game of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Steve Sarkisian, Ewers\u2019 coach at Texas, is excited for his former quarterback\u2019s opportunity. But he termed the change as \u201cbittersweet<\/a>\u201d for him because he also coached the QB that Ewers replaced in the lineup, Tua Tagovailoa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m excited for him,\u201d Sarkisian said<\/a>. \u201cI said this after the draft. I don\u2019t know if I said it to y\u2019all. But once you don\u2019t go in the first round or early in the second round, it\u2019s kind of like you hope you go to a good place and a good system that fits you, especially at quarterback. And I said this coming out of the draft: I don\u2019t know if there was a better fit for Quinn than going to Miami with (coach) Mike McDaniel. Systematically, the way he calls it and how it relates to what (Ewers) did here, the style in which the ball gets out of the quarterback\u2019s hands, I just think it\u2019s a good fit for Quinn.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, he\u2019s been doing some really good things behind the scenes in practice and things, so looking forward to his opportunity on Sunday to get his first career start. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll do some really good things, and he\u2019ll probably do some things that look like a guy making his first NFL start. But I know he\u2019s excited.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a little bittersweet because I had Tua as well, you know. And so both those guys working together, I know they have a great relationship. But what a great opportunity for Quinn. And I think it just serves to it\u2019s not always about when you get drafted, it\u2019s what you do with your opportunity. And a credit to Quinn for working his tail off to earn this opportunity to be a starting quarterback in the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: TUA TAGOVAILOA REACTS TO LOSING HIS STARTING SPOT AS MIAMI\u2019S QUARTERBACK<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dolphins decided to bench Tagovailoa after a 25-18 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers <\/a>on Monday night knocked Miami out of playoff contention.<\/p>\n

Tagovailoa had served as the Dolphins\u2019 starting quarterback when healthy in every game since the sixth contest of his rookie season after Miami picked him from Alabama<\/a> at No. 5 in the 2020 NFL Draft. <\/p>\n

Sarkisian worked as the offensive coordinator at Alabama in 2019, Tagovailoa\u2019s final season with the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins are playing the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday with Quinn Ewers as their starting quarterback. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8173,8170,111,143,57,123,125,124,16495,142,110],"class_list":["post-91674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-football","tag-college-sports","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mississippi","tag-ncaa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}