The Miami Dolphins are five years into the Tua Tagovailoa era and don’t have a playoff win. How much the 26-year-old quarterback is to blame depends on who you ask.
Nick Wright of FOX Sports thinks the Dolphins should take a wildly different approach to end their postseason drought, and he thinks the Los Angeles Rams could benefit from a big change too.
.@getnickwright wouldn’t trade Matt Stafford, but if he did… he has an interesting trade proposal
“I might call Miami and say Stafford for Tua.” pic.twitter.com/KC4Hf33Tnt
— First Things First (@FTFonFS1) January 21, 2025
“I might call Miami and say [Matthew] Stafford for Tua,” Wright said. “If [the Rams are] thinking ‘We need to get younger at the position and probably draft a guy, but we don’t want to just immediately spin that roulette wheel.’ If [Sean] McVay is like ‘Man, I could do better with Tua than Mike McDaniel did.’
“And if the Dolphins are like ‘Man, we’ve got maybe one more year before Tyreek [Hill] burns the building down. We’re trying to win right now, we have all these weapons.’ If you’re Miami, it would be admitting defeat on Tua and trying to go win right now.”
Would the Dolphins, who just out a $212.4 million extension to Tagovailoa, even consider shipping the quarterback out West in exchange for a passer set to turn 37 in a couple weeks? Probably not.
The Rams are likely even less inclined to make the deal.
It’s hard to see why McVay would believe he could get more out of Tagovailoa than McDaniel. The quarterback led the NFL in passing yards in 2023 and posted the third best completion percentage ever in 2024. McDaniel has maximized Tagovailoa’s ability to be efficient, but that hasn’t saved Miami from the quarterback’s susceptibility to injuries and struggles against loftier competition.
Don’t count on Tagovailoa heading anywhere this offseason.