Is this thread dedicated to reinforcing
@Ministry of Pain's love for the Dolphins and dreamful aspirations of Tua being a great QB?
At the end of the day, I have seen nothing from Tua to put him in the category of a Murray, Mahomes, Rodgers, Herbert, Allen or anyone with elite arm strength. If you have to find the fastest guys in the draft and pay Waddle $30 Million/Year - I'm not sure Tua is worth the $50 Million/Year number. The key is for Tua to recognize that and be satisfied with the $30-35 Million number.
Hey TVT,
Fair question, I would refer to some of our resident Dolphins fans and you can see my work in the Dolphins' team thread. I have numerous posts in there breaking down all the moving pieces right now. I see light at the end of the tunnel for the Offensive Line which has been horrific at times trying to protect Tua. Most of the OL was very young along with Tua and lack of veteran experience and leadership hurt the progress of Tua mightily his first 2 seasons.
-Tua had a broken hip socket and I personally would have passed on him in the Draft for Herbert taking on the very next selection by LAC. Despite both QBs competing in the same number of Playoff games(NONE) anyone can see that Herbert is the more gifted QB in terms of raw ability/arm. Tua should not have even played his rookie year and Coach Flores was not excited about having to play him his rookie year. Physically he was not right.
-2021, last season he had busted ribs by Week 2, lost his starting WRs for much of the year and despite Waddle looking like a gem, he still was a small rookie WR that could only provide so much offense. His rib injury stayed with him long after he returned as the Miami starter.
-2022, my hope is he's healthy finally and the OL can give him more than 2 seconds to drop back and shoot, that's what he was forced to do last year.
As I was posting, most of the Miami Dolphins fans here will tell you I am a Tua critic borderline hater at times. That said i am done criticizing his work or projecting 2022 until i see the camp reports from the writers covering the team. Usually they don't lie and identify the athletes that are tearing up minim camps and then training camp. I believe Tua will find success in 2022, exactly how that translates to his stats and the team winning football games, that's for others to figure out.
I will continue to share that one of the factors pushing my thoughts that Tua will have success is actually the D-1-1, that's all 11 starters back on Defense which should mean good things and shorter fields for Tua to attack with the Cheetah and Penguin at his disposal, TE-Gesicki franchise tag and in the San Fran offense, usually TEs produce. Miami has 3 new legit running backs on the roster right now....Myles Gaskin might have dropped to 4th on the depth charts. New OC/Offense predicated on the Zone Blocking scheme, it's going to bring out the best in what Miami has on their OL, this won't look a thing like last year IMHO, it can't!
-Finally, Miami has a special get out of jail card this year, Teddy Bridgewater has to be one of the top back up QBs, Miami gave him $7.5M to be in the shadows behind Tua, help him grow but also if Tua doesn't lead the team, Teddy is ready to roll at a moment's notice.
All signs point to a career year for Tua at the moment but let's revisit in July/Aug and see how things are progressing. Video of Tua's arm which looks like he has been hitting the weight room recently. Looks much stronger than his rookie season and last year as well.
Cheers!