Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has modified his tune after going from the NFL’s highest-rated passer in Week 10 to Sunday’s deflating Week 14 loss to the Chargers in Los Angeles.
‘It is very disappointing for us to go on the market as an offense and sort of present what we confirmed,’ Tagovailoa mentioned following the 23-17 loss – Miami’s second consecutive defeat, dropping the crew to 8-5. ‘That is less than our customary, that is not how we play soccer right here, and that was very disappointing.’
Tagovailoa had spent a lot the season disproving his critics, telling NBC final month, ‘I take receipts.’ However the third-year starter accomplished simply 10 of 28 passes on Sunday, and out of doors of a 60-yard landing move to Tyreek Hill, amassed simply 85 yards by means of the air in opposition to the Chargers.
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has modified his tune after going from the NFL’s highest-rated passer in Week 10 to Sunday’s deflating Week 14 loss to the Chargers in Los Angeles . ‘It is very disappointing for us to go on the market as an offense and sort of present what we confirmed,’ Tagovailoa mentioned following the 23-17 loss
Following the loss, Tagovailoa didn’t level fingers. As a substitute, he mentioned the coaches ready the offense properly earlier than defeats to the San Francisco 49ers and Chargers, including that he and his teammates have lacked focus.
‘I might say the defenses that we have performed have been enjoying precisely what we have anticipated them to play, that they’ve placed on movie,’ he mentioned. ‘It actually simply goes again to the small print of how we play our offense and we’re not all dialed in with that. So, now we have to return to the drafting board, determine this out, and acquired to maintain from dropping. I imply, it sucks.’
After passing for 11 touchdowns and nil interceptions throughout 4 straight wins relationship again to October, Tagovailoa has been picked off twice whereas finishing simply 28 of 61 passes (45.9 %) in his final two video games.
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Kyle Van Noy (8) sacks Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa through the first half on Sunday in Inglewood, California
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) throws in opposition to the Los Angeles Chargers through the first half at SoFi Stadium
Head coach Mike McDaniel mentioned after Sunday’s loss that his crew’s response to the current struggles will particular its season.
‘I have been part of groups, two groups particularly, that ended up enjoying within the Tremendous Bowl that had a loss fairly just like the one which we had tonight, the place you’ve excessive expectations and take a punch to the intestine,’ McDaniel instructed reporters. ‘I have been on groups the place it snowballed even additional. I believe relative to the place the 12 months’s at, I believe you all the time wish to proceed to progress.
‘So long as we study from all of it and begin enjoying higher soccer, I do not actually care what it’s, it will damage. I believe our guys’ expectations from what they really feel they need to be, that is most likely the furthest miss now we have had all 12 months. So, you actually, actually cannot conceal in these conditions. You discover out who you’re working with and who you’re coping with. I do know what they will discover out from me and I’m enthusiastic about what I am going to discover out from them.’
And issues will not get any simpler in Week 15, because the Dolphins journey to Buffalo for a Saturday evening sport in opposition to the Payments, who lead the AFC East at 10-3.
A win would go an extended method to serving to the Dolphins safe their first playoff berth since 2016. And for what it is price, Miami did beat Buffalo, 21-19, again in Week 3.
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel talks to quarterback Tua Tagovailoa through the second half
