Tua Tagovailoa put up a game so putrid that Mike McDaniel had no choice but to bench his starting quarterback in favor of a guy who had yet to take a single NFL snap in a regular-season game.
Quinn Ewers changed that on Sunday when he replaced Tua late in a blowout loss to the Browns. It wasn't a glorious debut but it's one that could soon turn the tide in the quarterback room.
There's no way around it: Tua's stat line was ugly. He finished the game with just 12 completions on 23 attempts and an average of just 4.