Colin Cowherd: “I was thinking that Tua was going to be a nice pro, but as I’m watching all these young quarterbacks I see two things: they are BIG men or wildly athletic, and so I had an epiphany. I said ‘Tua is not going to work.’ He will win games, I mean Mitch Trubisky wins games, but he’s not going to be what we think he is, or what I thought he was. So yesterday he debuts and THAT was my epiphany. He looks small. He doesn’t have a dynamic arm, the coaching staff protected him, they had 8 first downs, 90 net passing yards, he was bad on third down, and they almost never maintained drives. I’m not making a judgement just off one game, but when I see stuff, I’m going to say stuff. I don’t feel like coaches are ‘protecting’ Joe Burrow, Kyler Murray, and Justin Herbert, but I kind of feel like yesterday they just protected Tua.Tua is going to win games, that is not the point here. This is a really good coaching staff, and I predicted Miami would beat the Rams coming off a bye… I see ‘small’ and I don’t see dynamic… Boy, you’re asking a lot for a college kid to come into the NFL and say ‘alright, you’re small, and not very mobile. You gotta be DREW BREES to win.’ That’s like throwing a quarter on the ground and asking an airplane to land on it. Why did Miami sit red hot Ryan Fitzpatrick? Because Miami has Houston’s first round pick, it’s going to be a top 5 pick, and they’re going to move on after 8 games if Tua doesn’t have ‘IT.’” (Full Video Above)
Listen to Colin Cowherd explain why he doesn’t think Tua Tagovailoa is going to make it in the NFL, as Colin even said last week on Friday, days before Tua’s NFL debut, that he had an epiphany one night and starting thinking to himself that Tua wasn’t going to be the NFL star that he once thought he would be coming out of Alabama.
Tagovailoa’s Dolphins won in Tua’s debut, but Tua went just 12/22 for 93 yards, with one touchdown and one lost fumble, while posting a 25.0 QBR score for the game.
Check out the video above as Colin details why he doesn’t believe Tua has ‘IT’, and why he doesn’t see an NFL future for a ‘small’ QB without a ‘dynamic arm.’
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