Roughly 12 hours after Tua Tagovailoa was diagnosed with his third concussion in two years, Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel pleaded with fans and media members to allow his quarterback to focus on his health before discussing his career.
Mike McDaniel says he understands why people are talking about Tua Tagovailoa's future, but says it's"not in the player's best interest" to discuss that right now. Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021.
"I'm not assessing the injury through the lens of like, 'Alright, so what does this mean for him playing?'" McDaniel said."I'm not trying to even look at, okay, well how serious is this relative to his past ones? I know the facts are that it's important that he gets healthy day by day ... the best thing I can do is not try to assess what this even means from a football standpoint.
"The only two opinions that really matter that are the absolute driving force for what we're doing at that position: Tua and the doctors," McDaniel said."If I am a betting man, I'm guessing that those two people -- I don't see how he would play in the next game. I don't see it, but who am I to know or judge? But I think it's a fair assessment to be prepared to have three quarterbacks on a roster for the next game, that we'll need to add one for that game.
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