A six-pack of Miami Dolphins notes on a Monday:

▪ One widespread thread with the Dolphins’ new offensive additions is how effusive they’re of their reward of Tua Tagovailoa.

Clearly, no new addition on any staff goes to criticize the quarterback.

However it’s notable how enthusiastic many of the gamers have been in evaluating Tagovailoa, who was named by the teaching workers as the most effective participant in final Tuesday’s OTA session.

“Once I watch Tua, he comes off his reads very quick,” working again Chase Edmonds stated earlier this offseason. “I like that he will get the ball out rapidly. You’ll be able to inform he’s clever being an additional safety blanket with examine downs. I’m one of many higher backs turning a four-yard examine down into a primary down.”

Edmonds on coach Mike McDaniel: “Once I requested across the league, the very first thing they instructed me is how superb a person he’s and the way he pertains to his gamers, getting the ball [to players] in several methods, artistic methods.”

▪ NBC Sports activities’ Peter King unveiled his energy rankings on Monday and he has the Dolphins sixteenth, between Dallas and New England.

Right here was King’s touch upon the Dolphins: “They’ve the widest distribution of outcomes of any staff within the league this yr,” stated analytics-cruncher Eric Keen of PFF. Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle and Mike Gesicki are going to be hell for opposing defenses, and Tua Tagovailoa needs to be better-protected with Terron Armstead defending his entrance aspect.

“However this will probably be a referendum season on Tagovailoa. Will his arm power be ok for deep photographs to 2 nice deep threats? New coach Mike McDaniel was nice in San Francisco at divining the strengths of his gamers (see: Deebo Samuel).

“And he’ll work out methods within the intermediate areas to get Hill and Waddle free to make hassle for defenses. The win for McDaniel will probably be making Tagovailoa the no-doubt quarterback for the close to future in Miami, and in passing New England in division supremacy. Two lofty targets, however for a staff that received eight of its final 9, attainable ones.”

Greatest shock: King has the Eagles ninth and the Saints eleventh.

His prime 5: Buffalo, Chargers, Kansas Metropolis, Rams and Inexperienced Bay.

▪ Teddy Bridgewater stated one factor he’s seen about Kyle Shanahan’s and McDaniel’s offense is “it’s quarterback pleasant. There are all the time guys open, working vast open at occasions.”

Bridgewater stated sustaining an NFL profession “begins with throwing the ball to your guys [a lot on the practice field]. That’s the way you final. Additionally, simply having a course of and a routine. I discovered that – it took me what, 4 years?

“It took me till I acquired to New Orleans with Drew Brees to essentially perceive the worth of the method of getting a routine.”

▪ Fast stuff: Rely ESPN’s Tedy Bruschi amongst Dolphins doubters: “I don’t see this as a playoff staff.”…

Agent Drew Rosenhaus, throughout a chat with native reporters on the day the Dolphins launched Tyreek Hill to the media, stated: “We talked to Mike McDaniel and Chris Grier, Deebo Samuel’s function [with the 49ers]. The way in which they use Deebo is a correlation with how I count on them to make use of Tyreek. There’s even one other potential degree.”

▪ ESPN’s Mike Greenberg requested analyst Domonique Foxworth – the previous NFL participant union chief – whether or not Tom Brady as an proprietor (or in administration) would flip across the Dolphins.

Foxworth stated it’d as a result of “proprietor or staff president Tom Brady would absolutely persuade soccer participant Tom Brady to get again on the sector. And that roster in Miami could be fairly good if certainly one of their quarterbacks will get near being Tom Brady.”

The probabilities of Brady becoming a member of the Dolphins possession group has diminished within the wake of Brady putting a cope with Fox to be their lead analyst when he retires.

▪ Receiver Cedrick Wilson Jr. stated he can inform that coach McDaniel is “a man that’s going to wish to be hands-on with every little thing. You want your coaches like that since you don’t need the coach to vanish and also you don’t see him at observe.

“So I really feel like he’ll be very hands-on and I really feel like that’ll be good – one, for the offense, and two, for the entire staff, simply displaying that their head coach is on the market grinding with them.”

This story was initially revealed Could 23, 2022 3:52 PM.