Jason Smith: “This story that Tua is playing so the Dolphins can evaluate him has gained a lot of traction. The Dolphins own two first-round picks in next year’s Draft, including the Texans’ first and second round pick. They’re going to have a high pick early, and maybe go out and get the number one quarterback in the country, Trevor Lawrence if he’s there… Brian Flores can say what he wants, but this IS an audition. If Tua doesn’t play well, and they own a number one or number two pick, they will move on from him. The fact that they’re throwing him in like this tells you ‘we are going to move on from Tua if he doesn’t show us something right away.’ They will 100% do it because of the Draft capital, and how ‘if we’re wrong about a quarterback, we want to right that and we won’t have another chance to get a franchise quarterback because our team is too improved now.’ Tua is being auditioned to either be the Dolphins quarterback of the future, or someone they trade after this year. We already watched the Arizona Cardinals after one year with Josh Rosen, with a new head coach say ‘we have the number one pick, let’s go get Kyler Murray’ and it was the right decision. That was kind of the test balloon, but if Miami does this then it becomes the norm, where a quarterback becomes just like any other position, where if you flame out after a year, we can move on from you if we have the chance to get better at your position in the Draft.” (Full Audio Above)
Listen to Jason Smith explain why he thinks the Dolphins will absolutely move on from Tua Tagovailoa and trade him after only one season with the team, if he finishes out the next 9 games as poorly as he played in his NFL debut last weekend.
Check out the audio above as Smith details why the Dolphins having the Houston Texans’ first and second round picks next year, a pick that could be in the top 5 thanks to a flatining Houston team, would give the Dolphins the green light to draft Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, or Trey Lance, and give Tua the Josh Rosen treatment.
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