Miami Dolphins' Tua Tagovailoa gets a major slap in the face from national media outlet
Miami Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa just had a very good season for the Dolphins. With a career high completion percentage of 69.3% and a league-leading 4624 passing yards, Tagovailoa did plenty of good for the Dolphins. Unfortunately, the season ended in a spiral, with the Dolphins blowing the division in Week 18 against the Buffalo […]
Miami Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa just had a very good season for the Dolphins. With a career high completion percentage of 69.3% and a league-leading 4624 passing yards, Tagovailoa did plenty of good for the Dolphins.
Unfortunately, the season ended in a spiral, with the Dolphins blowing the division in Week 18 against the Buffalo Bills and then ending their season with a whimper against the eventual Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs 26-7.
Apparently, that was enough to fade Tagovailoa in the eyes of some media members, and none more so apparently than The 33rd Team's Derrik Klassen. The pundit had Tagovailoa extremely low – 17th, to be exact – among all quarterbacks in the league.
The list has a number of oddities – such as Joe Burrow being number 9 – but Tagovailoa, Brock Purdy, and Jalen Hurts being so low are the oddest of them all. Baker Mayfield coming off a Pro Bowl season at #20 is also bizarrely low.
Klassen has Anthony Richardson at 16, Geno Smith at 12, and Kyler Murray at 11, which are all very curious choices. Richardson has a strong arm and showed a quick flash of promise early, but he has hardly anything on tape to show he's better than the NFC's last two Super Bowl starting QBs and a Pro Bowl talent in Tagovailoa.
And while Hurts and Purdy have had two good seasons back-to-back, so has Tagovailoa. The Dolphins' starter quietly had a strong statistical output in 2022 despite missing four games with injury. He led the NFL in passer rating, average yards per attempt, average yards per completion, and percentage of throws that went for touchdowns to go with a 25 to 8 touchdown to interception ratio.
Apparently that's not enough for some folks. Looks like Tagovailoa and the Dolphins will have one more person to prove wrong when the 2024 season gets underway.
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