It’s safe to say that last week’s game against the San Francisco 49ers was not the best performance for Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa as he finished just 18-of-33 through the air for 295 yards with two touchdowns along with a pair of interceptions as well as a lost fumble. But head coach Mike McDaniel doesn’t think the loss was all the fault of his quarterback.
During his weekly press conference, McDaniel defended Tua Tagovailoa from criticism.
“I think this is such a cool opportunity for each and every player that this is part of the NFL experience, is you can have some hot streaks where you’re doing well more often than not, and then you can have a game that there’s a lot more plays that you’d like to have back,” McDaniel said according to the team website. “From a football perspective, that’s not — everything that went wrong wasn’t a direct result of the quarterback. It never is exactly like that. However, we all know that he wants to play as well as he can and he thinks that he could have done better in that game.
“So that is life in the NFL and whether you have seven Super Bowl rings or you haven’t been to a playoff game yet or you’re a rookie, you’re a 10-year vet, you’re a five-year vet; you will always — player, coach, anybody involved — be going through that experience, so that it is not something that, hey, it doesn’t happen to the best ones ever to do it. Every person has to go through that and so your objective is to get better from it, and that’s the world we live in.”
Tagovailoa will have a chance to bounce back this week.
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