I do. The hate for Tua isn’t justified. He diagnoses plays and has a quick release. Right now I want Tua then Fromm. Herbert doesn’t seem like the type of QB I’d want for the Dolphins at all and he seems very overrated. You?
Say it properly. The hate for Tua is simpleton stupidity. The sports fan world is flooded with simplistic angry males who have no clue what they are looking at but thrill to overreact to one game or one play.
Trevor Lawrence still doesn't have one game in his college career with a YPA that matches Tua's season average in YPA from 2018.
One guy is basically holding steady at 11 YPA and the other guy holding steady at 8 YPA. But all the geniuses insist the 8 YPA guy is markedly superior, based on that one game.
I'd like to know how Trevor Lawrence is going to have a long career. That is the understated variable. There is a lengthy thread along those lines in the Draft Forum of FootballsFuture.com. Lawrence allows one huge hit after another. Yesterday was incredibly fortunate. He's gained 10 pounds and somehow brainstormed to use his legs more often. Brilliant. Now he's rolling right and rolling left and allowing himself to be walloped on the legs and everywhere else.
He should have learned the opposite lesson, after the game-ending sideline hit he took against Syracuse last year.
If Kyler Murray gets hurt it is a fluke. He knows how to quickly collapse into a little ball and make himself small, just like Russell Wilson. Tua is not as skilled or instinctive as those guys in that department, but along the same lines and it will likely get better. Lawrence, on the other hand, is a leggy type who provides a massive strike zone. Even the way he extends his body and follows through is ridiculously extended and allows countless things to go wrong off the edge.
The Dolphins would be world class fools to pass on Tua. For one thing, they won't have the ammo to move up for Lawrence in 2021, not unless additional moves are made. Two of those first round draft picks are in 2020. They only have one additional first round choice one besides their own in 2021.
That wouldn't be nearly enough. Anyone with a 2021 plan is essentially brain dead and situationally unaware. Not exactly a surprise. The Dolphins would have to successfully tank in two consecutive seasons. Given NFL parity levels, that is low percentage to put it mildly.