NFL Network and ESPN report Tua Tagovailoa has no plans to retire and will see specialists this week to get a timeline on his return. The guys continue to break down the Dolphins newest signing at QB.
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00:00Miami dolphins have signed Tyler Huntley quarterback to, uh, to the team. He was on the Ravens
00:07practice squad. He's basically spent his entire career with the Ravens outside of being, uh,
00:11in camp at the Browns, uh, this training camp, but he, uh, he was currently on the Ravens
00:18practice squad. Does that mean he has to go to the active roster? Leroy, if they're signing
00:22them to their, to their team,
00:24I think you can sign a practice squad to practice squad. Okay. I was wondering if he, if he
00:30had to go there, cause if he went to the active roster, what would, then that means they're
00:32going to put two on IR, which they haven't officially done yet. Do you think they are?
00:38I don't know. That's why I was, I was wanting to be, cause if he had to go to the active
00:42roster, someone else has to suit up, right? I mean, we can't, somebody else has to suit
00:46up. Yes. One quarterback. Yeah. Someone else has to suit up, but you have to, you have
00:50to decide whether or not you want to was rostered. If they want somebody else into
00:55his roster spot for the next four games, not four weeks, four games. So if that were to
01:00be the case, if they do end up putting them in on, on IR, um, I believe that would take
01:06us up to the Cardinals game because there's a bi-week in there. So let's say they do that.
01:13It's Seattle, Tennessee, new England bi-week Indianapolis. So the bi-week doesn't count.
01:20And that would make him, I guess, eligible to come back the 27th against Arizona at home.
01:26But, um, Marcos and I were talking about this, not the, I mean, it's not the biggest gauntlet
01:31in the world. Obviously nothing's going to be easy with not having your starting quarterback,
01:34but you're talking no division games, right? Uh, new England, new England,
01:40who's been pretty feisty. Yeah, actually pretty feisty. They did lose to Seattle yesterday,
01:46but a lot of, a lot of like in the games, like mishaps, like it's almost like some of these
01:53teams forgot how football is played, right? Like when you got a couple of minutes left to go in
01:58the game, the one thing you never do is throw a pass, right? You want the clock to run while
02:03all of a sudden we throw in these little short, incomplete passes, stopping the clock guaranteeing
02:08that the other team going to get the ball. So, yeah, I don't know, man. And some weird,
02:13there was some weird games yesterday. Very strange. But anyway, um, so yeah, that's something
02:19to keep an eye on. If the Dolphins do decide that they're going to put to a out for the next four
02:24games, which probably the last time this happened, he basically missed. And I'm talking like the last
02:29time this happened viciously like this on Thursday night football, he missed about a month. Yeah.
02:35He missed about a month. And then he had the one at the end of the season with green Bay,
02:40but he needs to wear his helmet inside his head. Cause if it's the, if it's the jarring of the
02:47brain, we need to go ahead on and give him some more fluid. And then, uh, yeah, people also say
02:53like, should he go with the guardian cap to give him all the caps, whatever, everything, anything,
02:59whatever they see, see, you understand that putting the guardian cap on doesn't matter.
03:07Why? Because it's the jarring of your brain in your head. So whether you hit something hard or
03:13soft, if the brain juggles in your, in your head, that's what caused the concussion.
03:21Give him every kind of captors to give him. I don't care if he needs it or not. Give him the
03:25cap, give him one of those cowboy collars that, that Zach Thomas used to wear. Give him one of
03:30those. I tried those. I tried one of those for a year, give, give him whatever it takes. And then
03:35also never run again. Never his, his over under is going to be plus a half easy money. In fact,
03:47I think if he runs, he should be tased. He should be fined. No, I want, I want, I want Mike McDaniel
03:53to come out and find him $1,000 for every yard. He runs. Nope. You know why you can't do that?
04:00Why? Because if it's third and five at the end of a football game and he have
04:0410 yards, he can get, yeah, you got to play football, man.
04:08You gotta play football, Leroy. You gotta play football.
04:14Well, how about we paid 160 million for a statue? That's expensive.
04:18Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, that's exactly what I wanted. I told you all off season. It was the
04:22dumbest thing ever for him to get nimble and mobile. And by the way, a lot of good, it did
04:27like you really saw him go off the cuff anyway, with his throws Marcos. The only thing that it
04:32did was give him a false sense of security and he still got hurt. And it's your fault.
04:37No, that you've never saw that one play that he did that where he extended it for three seconds.
04:42The play in preseason where you went up against a grocery bagger in the backfield.
04:47That was good. Oh, sorry. Bring me back flashbacks. You, you bastard nimble on his toes.
04:54Clearly the offense calls for that. Skylar Thompson is going to be rolling out.
04:58We got Snoop, Snoop Huntley mobile 4.5. I don't know if you did that in his 40.
05:03That was, that was, that was 10 years ago. Yeah, it wasn't 10 years ago, but
05:12a year four. Ah, look at that inflation. So really he runs a pro bowl when in his first
05:19four years of the league. And now he's Leroy. He's, he's one of the most notorious pro bowler,
05:24like ridiculous. It was a flag football game. He had more picks than interceptions that year.
05:33Those are the same thing. I'm sorry. He had more touchdowns.
05:40No, he had, he had in that season, this was his pro bowl season. Okay.
05:47Two and two. Yeah. He threw for 658 yards.
05:55He threw for two touchdowns, three picks. Oh, that was, he only played four games.
05:59Yeah. It was a game. It's when Lamar got hurt. That's like who he wanted. So, so,
06:03so check this out. Here's, here's the crazy thing. Must've literally ran out of it.
06:08Yeah. It literally ran out, ran out of everybody. Um, I, I don't know, man. Like I just,
06:19there's certain things that I think we put ourselves in that we probably shouldn't.
06:28And all I hope for is to his wellbeing. And I hope he has the people around him
06:35to be able to make a solid choice moving forward. And then we just respect his choice,
06:41right. For, for people that have never kind of experienced it or gone through it or have,
06:48you know, or understand not the money part of it, but the competitive part of it.
06:55Right. I think there being a little bit unfair, uh, and to see guys on TV, I think, um,
07:03who's it, uh, Teddy, um, from the Patriots.
07:09Teddy Ruski said it perfectly. He said he had to have a, a step put in his heart
07:17or something in his heart. Cause he had a stroke when he was 31 years old. Yep. And he said,
07:24he asked all the questions, Hey, so if I get hit really hard, is this thing going to move?
07:29And they basically said hard to say. Yeah. And he still went out and always want to live them,
07:34leave themselves wiggle room. Right. That's it. Which you can't get an honest answer because
07:39everybody's so scared of getting sued that you end up making decisions based on your medical
07:45history and not on your medical knowledge. Right. And that that's unfortunate. Nobody wants it. And
07:52so the same thing is going to be this way for tour. Right. Um, so I hope that he gets the right
08:01advice. He gets the right, uh, like the doctors around him, you know, let him know when he's
08:09healthy and, and when he can go and not worry about how it looks or it is you either you are,
08:17or you aren't as simple as that. And then he can make his own decision. But for us to, to, you know,
08:25I, I kinda understand the part, not the money part, but I understand the part of everybody's
08:33been in his ear and on his back his whole career. And he finally gets a chance to show everybody
08:39what he can and can't do. And he doesn't want it to end with people saying, see, I told you
08:47just those words, which is everybody like, you know, how many texts I got knew he wasn't the guy
08:54cause he got hurt. Like, like, like for this, for, for this young man, for tour,
09:02he is the only person that I've ever seen lead a sport in a category.
09:10And people still treat him like he's Daniel Jones, right? So, yeah. I mean, like, look,
09:19I've been a tour backer his entire career. I've always been a tour fan, but I do think that
09:24one of the reasons I thought it was stupid that frog boy wanted him to run was you knew this was
09:29an element of his, he's not a big dude. He's not a big dude. You know what, you know what,
09:38you know what here, Marcos, can I just tell you, I've told you a thousand times,
09:44most of my concussions came from people I didn't see. Yeah. So for you to think, okay. Oh my
09:51goodness. I've opened your eyes too. They being in fast, but this is, I think the thing that was
09:58jarring about this with his last ones, it was always the same way. It was always, he was getting
10:03thrown onto the back of his head and he took the precautions of, of learning how to fall and to
10:10try and prove that. And it seemed like it really, really worked. I think the thing that's jarring
10:14about this is everybody has said like, this was not a violent play. Well, this was not a violent,
10:20this was not a violent play. And the hat and his body had a very violent reaction to a play
10:26that did not seem that violent. And so what, what everybody, I think looks out with him is like,
10:32you really do feel era. Like it could be on any play for him. Because remember the last time that
10:37this happened, his season ended the next day at practice or the next day in film, because
10:45they didn't know. And he's like, I couldn't remember what that play was. Right. So yeah,
10:50I do think like, I get people who say it's his decision and I'm for you. I get it. It's his
10:55decision. I'm not going to knock him if he continues to play. Cause I think he's going
10:57to continue to play. But I also have a little bit of a hard time. People saying, Hey, nobody's
11:02allowed to have a take on this, that they're a little worried about watching him play football.
11:07No, but that's not here. That's not what the take is. No people have that take. They do.
11:12If you're saying, if you're adding onto this, being the reason why he's not the guy. Okay. If
11:16you had durability questions about him, he's had durability issues. He's had durability issues.
11:19So have half the quarterbacks in the league. That's fine. But I'm just saying like he,
11:23there's nobody you're really going to watch him this year. You're not going to have any issues
11:28worries watching here. Here's what I would say. This is the honest truth. See, because I can be
11:33honest about it. Like, keep in mind, I got stretchered and took to a hospital because
11:40I hit somebody that was 145 pounds because I turned my head the same way too. It did
11:47same exact thing. So I ended up on a stretcher in the hospital. So I understand what happened.
11:54Okay. But here's the deal. I am always going to watch tour and always look and say, is he
12:03protecting himself? Is he, did that hit do this? Or did that hit do that? It's human nature,
12:09right? I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about all the other stuff about people
12:17saying what tour should or shouldn't do. That's the part I have a problem with the U-turn on TV.
12:23Nobody's talking about, you know, I hope he's okay or whatever. Oh, this is what I would do.
12:29Right. You see what I'm saying? So knowing that every one of those players
12:36at some point during their career had to make that decision, is it worth me coming back?
12:43And the whole, and every one of them would tell you, I didn't want to go out like that.
12:48Okay. But not all of them did though. Not all of them. Andrew Luck didn't.
12:51Luke Keeley didn't. Not all of them did.
12:53But Andrew Luck decided not to come back.
12:56That's what I'm saying though. But not everybody has the take. I want to keep,
13:00I keep wanting to put myself on the line.
13:02I understand that. I understand that. Again,
13:04I'm not telling Tua what to do. I'm not suggesting what he should do. So I'm never going to have that
13:13take with Tua. I only had that take with me. And I've heard people say that. Right. It was the same,
13:20remember Charles Barkley limping through a half with San Antonio? His whole thing was,
13:25I didn't want to not, right. He could barely run. Like, it's just the mentality of some people.
13:31Like, it's just the mentality of some people that, so I don't know, again,
13:37I don't know if Tua feels that way or not.
13:41All I want him to do is be healthy and I want for him to make a decision. And I can live with
13:47any decision he makes because I respect him as a man. But for all these people out here saying what
13:53he should, or what I would do, and no, that's not for us to decide. And so, and I'm not going to
14:02lie. The next time he plays, if I see 30 yards in front of him, I'm going to just start yelling,
14:09Cam Ward. You know, Cam Ward, run over to the sideline. As soon as somebody gets close, step
14:15out. Absolutely, Roy. That is a good point. Yeah. You mean against Ball State? Oh, well.
14:19Right. No, no, no. Yeah. That's also Ball State. He ain't playing against Georgia.
14:23The Gators, remember that though? Ooh, SEC. Oh, yeah. They've been off to a tremendous start
14:28this year. I mean, the Gators and FSU are bringing shame to the state. They're not SEC,
14:34dude. Pick another initial to put on the end of that. Yeah, B-U-M.
14:40What if he plays one more year? What if he's like, hey, I'm just going to ride out the rest
14:43of this year, Super Bowl or bust? Who, Tua? Tua, yeah. Whatever. Again, at the end of the year,
14:51if he says, you know, I've thought about it and, you know, I don't want to put myself through this,
14:58I got a family or whatever, I would understand. Again, I don't, I'm not going to say what he
15:03should and shouldn't do. I'm just like looking around and hearing people telling everybody what
15:10they should or shouldn't do, knowing damn well, dude, if you had a chance to get that money,
15:14you get that money, you try whatever you can to get that money. So I'm not.
15:19Yeah, but this, but this is again, like this, this was a question before he even got the money.
15:24Like this was a question before he even got a big signing bonus. He didn't come back for the money.
15:31You see what I'm saying? I don't know. I mean, you can't say, I don't know. You can't say he
15:39didn't do it then and say he won't do it now. I think that there's a, I mean, there's probably
15:45a level and a spectrum of what people will go for and what they want to put themselves through.
15:48Look, I don't, I don't know what that is. I'm not inside of his head. I think, yes,
15:52I'm not saying he's doing it all for the money, but it would be silly to think that being at a
15:58point where you were a couple of years ago to where you are now, is it different and doesn't
16:03give you more positive, especially with having two young babies. Yes. Again, to take all of his
16:14outlined circumstances and make them a part of it is probably only natural,
16:23but you have to understand, man, I've seen guys go on the field and try to play
16:31with some unbelievable stuff that people would, would just not, you know, I had a finger folded
16:37over to on the top of my hand and I took some tape from Steve and taped it up and kept going
16:42in that series. I didn't think anything was wrong with it. Right. And so like, I'm trying to
16:51explain you the mentality of a competitor and how people, how you spend most of your career
17:01trying to prove naysayers wrong. My own perfect example, when Cleveland or Baltimore shipped me
17:08out for Bam Morris, my next four injuries, all I kept thinking about was, is Bam still playing?
17:18It didn't have nothing to do with how much I was hurting. And so it wasn't about the money. It was
17:24about the fact that somebody called me a failure by sending me somewhere else. And sometimes that
17:33mentality takes over that. It never, I think if you were to, I think if he were to end his career
17:39today, there would be a lot of those like, uh, you know, he'd be miserable. I think that he'd
17:45be miserable unless somebody told him he could not play. You understand now that's the difference.
17:51If the medically, they come in and say, tour, you cannot play anymore. That's a totally different
17:57situation than him. Just deciding I can't do it because as a football player, it makes you look
18:06soft. It makes you look like you got no fight. It makes, even if that's not the case, I would
18:13not pass judgment on to it. Whatever he decided to do.