{"id":238575,"date":"2025-10-20T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238575\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:41:07","slug":"mike-mcdaniel-everything-is-on-the-table-with-quarterback-tua-tagovailoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238575\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel: “Everything is on the table” with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest headline from Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel\u2019s post-game press conference related to his staunch refusal to not consider thinking<\/a> about his job security. McDaniel said something else of interest when discussing the three-interception performance from quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.<\/p>\n

McDaniel was asked this question: \u201cWhat will your conversation be with Tua after this game?\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full answer, as transcribed and distributed by the Dolphins.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah it will be tape-driven, I will have to take a look at the tape but before watching the tape, I don\u2019t want to overconclude anything,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cI think, when you turn the ball over, you know, it is the number one indicator of wins and losses, and it negatively affects the team. I think there\u2019s multiple factors in those turnovers, I know at least one or two of them were extremely preventable from Tua and he knows that just wasn\u2019t good enough. We\u2019ll watch the tape and change our style of play if we [have] to. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is on the table, when you go to a game you fully know you have the capability to win and get handed a very, very humbling loss. There\u2019s no if and or buts about it, guys need to be professionals and step up to the plate, and every person on our team, if you\u2019re saying it\u2019s me, it\u2019s you. I told the team, that\u2019s what I have to subscribe to and we will be diligent in our cleanup of this game and the opponent for next week, because you\u2019re not just going to win games and our team, you know, we say we want to win games so we have to do the things necessary to win games. Until that happens, we will lose games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything is on the table. Those are the words McDaniel used.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s on the table? \u201cEverything.\u201d What isn\u2019t? \u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

One key thing isn\u2019t on the table \u2014 not owing Tagovailoa $54 million fully guaranteed in 2026. But, as is always the case with fully-guaranteed contracts, the team has to pay the player; it does not have to play him.<\/p>\n

While McDaniel said nothing specific to suggest he\u2019s thinking about benching Tua for Quinn Ewers or Zach Wilson, McDaniel undeniably said, \u201cEverything is on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, even if McDaniel is thinking about holding the starting quarterback accountable for his mistakes by putting him on the bench, there\u2019s one specific thing on the table for McDaniel that could make that irrelevant. As soon as today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest headline from Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel\u2019s post-game press conference related to his staunch refusal to not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-238575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}