QB Tua Tagovailoa shares why Dolphins will be better than anticipated
But, that isn't the case from the team's top leaders in Miami Gardens. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa joined NFL Network for "Back Together Weekend" and was asked why Miami would be much better than people think.
"Well, I think it starts with me. It starts with me not putting myself in situations where I can't be available for this team, and I think in a way it kind of goes from there. If I can stay healthy for our guys, I believe and I believe the team believes that I give us the best chance to potentially go do what we say we want to do," Tagovailoa said.
"But outside of that, it's the consistency I think for our team that has been, man, these guys are good, but then it's too good to be true. Something's about to happen. Boom. Let's say I go down or say something else happens within the team and then the structure looks messed up. And it's like, oh, now we can't do this, now we can't do that. And so I think it's just the consistency. A lot of the guys on the team, we hear the noise. We hear all of that, but it's okay. it's okay for everybody to have their opinion about it. Now, what we gonna do about it? That's it."
Miami's sixth-year quarterback likes how the leadership on this 2025 Dolphins squad is materializing, too.
"I think this is one of the best that we've felt as a team collectively, but then also from room to room the leadership that we have positionally.
"I think it's been probably the biggest step that we've taken this year and that we've seen as a change to the way our production is on the field as a team and then translating that to meetings, translating that to how we communicate with each other. Things of that nature and then also in the walkthrough," Tagovailoa said.
In the lone season where Tagovailoa was healthy throughout, Tagovailoa led the NFL in passing with 4,624 yards and 29 passing touchdowns during the 2023 campaign. Tagovailoa earned a Pro Bowl nod that season.
As Tagovailoa said though, now it's time for he and the Dolphins to go prove the doubters wrong.
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