(12-28-2020, 12:38 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(12-28-2020, 12:14 PM)Kane Wrote: Tua should have never been inserted to begin with when Fitzpatrick was doing just fine and they were winning. Perfect scenario for Tua to sit, learn and maintain health while the org continues to build around him. Think the coaches are playing with fire pulling him and reinserting him like they have this season.

Wait, wait, wait.  You are the one more than anyone that always says if you draft a guy that high you start him day 1.

The issue is whether QB should be treated like other positions. Most other positions you make the rookie earn his spot. And if he needs to be sat for a game due poor play, it is generally lauded as accountability and good coaching. 

Being QB though is such a high profile position though that most coaches/scouts/fans/media feel that they have to treated "lightly" or it will play mind games for that player, and affect his teammates' trust in him as a leader. Basically you either start him game 1 or you wait to start him until like the bye week or game 10 or season 2, and then just leave him in no matter what.

I have no clue if the prevailing sentiment is correct, but the Dolphins are basically saying they don't believe in it. We will see if it works out. If anyone is built to deal with it, it may be Tua who won a NC as a 2nd half sub in the championship game and then needed Hurts to relieve him because of injuries in the SEC title game a few years later.

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