I truly believe this offensive build for Miami is over. It was a moment in time, perhaps even a necessary one, when the question was how do we rehab a top 5 pick QB who just survived an all out civil war with a Head Coach who actively worked against him.
It’s not the same Tua anymore. You succeeded. You rebuilt him. You proved to HIM and to the whole league that he can play.
But what you forgot to do was build a TEAM. You forgot to build a WINNER that could handle being untracked in tough circumstances.
You don’t need smurf receivers anymore. You don’t need a dogmatic rushing attack that has the same boom/bust characteristics as a passing game.
You DO need an offensive line.
You DO need to be able to sit back there longer than 2 seconds, and it’s not always going to be your choice as to when you need that.
You DO need to be able to rely on the physicality of your receivers the way Tua has relied on Jonnu Smith for that most of the year.
You DO need to play offense in a way that is not a flat out embarrassment any time your QB is dinged up.
You DO need to have guys out of the huddle and up at the line of scrimmage in time to actually make adjustments if they’re needed.
You DO need those timeouts.
You DO need a play caller who isn’t frozen in the moment dealing with all of the things a head coach has to deal with during a game.
And this point the idiosyncratic drawbacks of this offensive build are hurting Miami more than helping.
They’re able to look GREAT when they are afforded the opportunity to look GOOD. But they look BAD when presented with any unfavorable circumstances.
That is not a tenable dynamic for a football team to weather the increasingly long, increasingly tumultuous throes of an NFL football season.
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@OmarKelly I would bring him back.Hes to big to powering generational type talent if you ask me.Him pressuring alone is gonna warrant 1to2 guys to block him not includingwhat the rest of the line is doing. Weve know his bad attitude when he was @ Detroit when we brought him here the 1sttime
@MrBeast Dont know what everyone else is talking about donating and this and that if I win I'm gonna keep and get myself and wife out of debt and treat my family to stuff that we haven't been able to have because of said debt