As the combine rolls on, more and more info keeps getting pumped out that isn’t worth the Charmin Extra Soft you wipe your butt with. That’s the nature of the combine. Everyone loses their brains about 40 times over hand size and player interviews. Naturally, the Miami Dolphins are in the thick of everything due to them having three first-round picks one of them being the fifth overall pick. Not to mention that they’ve been courting Tua Tagovailoa seemingly since the fourth grade.
Now with the revelation that Justin Herbert looks really good, something we already knew but are acting like we just discovered plutonium on accident, the Dolphins are reportedly treating Tua like he’s a guy about to get dumped who is starting to feel like a guy who’s about to get dumped. As per Safid Dean of the South Florida Sentinel:
A source said Tagovailoa left the meeting “uncertain” about whether the Dolphins are truly interested in selecting him No. 5 overall and making him their franchise quarterback.
The source added: “No one was excited. They didn’t give any indication of ‘he’s their guy.’ He felt weird, like is this a joke? …He’s not turned off, but it was just weird.”
Despite that, Tagovailoa reportedly still wants to play for the Dolphins and is hopeful they will either take him fifth overall or trade up to secure him.
In dating and the process of figuring out who’s going to be your franchise QB, you never want to have a weird feeling. That’s where Tua, reportedly, is with the Dolphins.
Now it’s certainly possible (and Tua referenced this in the same article) that teams play close to the vest. So it’s a good thing that the Dolphins weren’t talking to Tua with pillows on their laps. The smart thing is to appear that every option is on the table, which for Miami, it sort of is. We don’t know what they’re going to do. We all assume you need to take a QB, but which one? Tua, the guy you tried to go winless for, or Chan Gailey‘s Godson?
And Now We Wait
We, obviously, won’t know definitively until the draft. We’ll hear all types of things leading up to it concerning Tua and the Dolphins. Things such as Tua being treated like a girl you just wanted to have fun with but now won’t stop calling you. This is where we’re at with the Dolphins doing their best Vince Vaughn impersonation. We just have to deal with it for now until Miami realizes that they’re a little fucking crazy. That’s right, maybe the Dolphins are a little nuts. I hope that they are.
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