Tua Tagovailoa Made Startling Admission About Lack Of Targets For Jaylen Waddle

During nan Dolphins' dismal violative capacity successful their nonaccomplishment to nan Browns connected Sunday, wide receiver Jaylen Waddle caught conscionable 1 walk for 15 yards. With Tyreek Hill retired for nan remainder of the season, Waddle is nan team's apical receiving threat. Despite this, backmost Tua Tagovailoa and Miami targeted him conscionable 4 times during nan game.

In less-than-ideal conditions successful Cleveland, Tagovailoa threw 3 interceptions and was benched during nan game. Tagovailoa did not blasted weather, however, for his deficiency of throws toward Waddle. Instead, he pointed to his tallness arsenic nan logic he didn't get nan shot much to Waddle.

“Some of it has to do pinch being capable to spot guys pinch their guys besides up beforehand and our guys [the violative and protect lines]," Tagovailoa told reporters connected Wednesday. "I’m not nan tallest feline successful nan backmost location either. Being capable to spot and sometimes erstwhile that happens, you don’t want to conscionable propulsion it blindly.”

It's precisely nan logic teams fearfulness drafting shorter quarterbacks—or quarterbacks beneath 6-foot-3 aliases 6-foot-4—because their signal-caller won't beryllium capable to spot their receivers aliases past nan statement of scrimmage. At 6-foot-1, Tagovailoa is not nan shortest backmost successful nan league, but he is simply a fewer inches beneath nan tallness galore scouts and teams prefer.

For Tagovailoa, this marks different questionable remark he's made during a property convention this season. Earlier successful nan year, he admitted earlier facing nan Bills that he "can't do half of what (quarterback Josh Allen) does erstwhile it comes to moving nan shot and pinch really he tin conscionable chuck a shot down nan field." More recently, he sparked contention erstwhile he called retired teammates for missing aliases being late to player-only meetings. He later apologized for those comments.

All of these things mightiness beryllium true, but acknowledging them isn't nan champion look, peculiarly erstwhile it displays his ain inabilities aliases weaknesses contempt being 1 of nan highest-paid quarterbacks successful nan NFL. With concerns already surrounding Tagovailoa's play this season, making these admissions publically doesn't help.

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