When Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa left the game late in the second quarter on Sunday, my heart sank to the bottom of my chest — because to me, it looked like a head injury, and he was not well.
Thankfully, I’m no doctor, and it was a back injury that Tua suffered. Nevertheless, he would come back into the game and, when the team needed it most, made one big-time throw after another.
Here’s what Mike McDaniel had to say about Tua’s toughness, his leadership, and of course, the critical completion on 3rd and 22.