It’s time to acknowledge what most of us were probably thinking the past couple of weeks, but perhaps didn’t want to come right out and say. Dolphins head coach Brian Flores took a huge gamble when he named Tua Tagovailoa the starter at quarterback three weeks ago, and that gamble, at least thus far, has paid off handsomely.
And when I say that, I don’t mean in terms of the young quarterback getting injured; I was never really worried about that. Any NFL player, at any position, is always at risk of injury, but the team medical staff examined Tagovailoa and gave him a clean bill of health, so I wasn’t worried about his hip.