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If Tua Tagovailoa isn’t the Miami Dolphins guy, we will know soon enough

By Brian Miller

ORCHARD PARK, NY - DECEMBER 17: Tua Tagovailoa #1 of the Miami Dolphins reacts after a play during an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium on December 17, 2022 in Orchard Park, New York. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
ORCHARD PARK, NY - DECEMBER 17: Tua Tagovailoa #1 of the Miami Dolphins reacts after a play during an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium on December 17, 2022 in Orchard Park, New York. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images) /
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The Miami Dolphins will not start the off-season on time for the first time since 2016 but it may not last long and that brings Tua Tagovailoa into off-season discussion.

Will Tua Tagovailoa be with the Miami Dolphins next year? Will he be the starting quarterback in 2023? Is Miami ready to move on or give him another year? Those are the questions that fans are debating and the mainstream media has no answers because most think Tua should retire.

Miami could shock the NFL world and knock off the Bills on Sunday but if we are being honest, the chances of that happening is less than 10% and that might be generous. If Miami loses, their off-season starts immediately and Tua Tagovailoa will have plenty of time to recover from his concussion.

Before we know if Miami will move on from Tua, something I do not believe will happen, the question needing answered first is will Tua retire? We should know that before the start of free agency in March or would hope to but when March rolls around, we will know if the Dolphins are either moving on or shelving Tua for the 2023 season and see what happens.

Miami is not in a position to make any trades. They have little draft capital unless they view the roster complete sans a quarterback. With the price it takes to land a quarterback via trade, we can rule out Aaron Rodgers, Lamar Jackson, and Derek Carr.

Miami’s best chance to land a quarterback if Tua isn’t the plan for 2023 is free agency and only Tom Brady seems realistic but does any Dolphins fan really want Tom Brady? No, but that doesn’t matter because Stephen Ross sees Brady and sees a quarterback that could potentially take his team to the Super Bowl. At 82 years of age, Ross isn’t afforded the luxury of time.

Luckily, if Brady is the immediate future, we should see him signed sometime in March and if a trade is an answer then we should know by the draft in April. Either way, it’s only January but two months from now isn’t that far to wait, just two months of speculation and rumor that we don’t really need.

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