There’s no need to sell this moment. No need to hype it with superlative-laced sentences. Sunday’s debut of Tua Tagovailoa is simply the biggest on-field moment for a Dolphins player in nearly 40 years.
And, again, that’s written with the understanding there’s absolutely no need to inflate this moment — and it is the moment rather than the game. The Dolphins can lose the game. The game, by itself, has no more consequence than next week or the week after.
The moment has a rare spotlight, though. Sometimes such moments arrive in sports without any advance warning or involved history.