If Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa thought he had all of it discovered after an encouraging string of practices, Tuesday’s return after to group drills after sitting out the preseason opener was humbling.
Tagovailoa simply had his worst observe of coaching camp, throwing three interceptions on a day when all Dolphins quarterbacks mixed for six.
Tagovailoa was intercepted by safeties Brandon Jones, Jevon Holland and cornerback Nik Needham. Backup Teddy Bridgewater threw an interception to cornerback Noah Igbinoghene, and rookie Skylar Thompson was picked off late in Tuesday’s session by Elijah Campbell and Quincy Wilson, the birthday boy standout from University School who additionally performed for the Florida Gators.
“That’s just how we hold ourselves as a standard,” linebacker Elandon Roberts mentioned of the stout defensive effort. “Turnovers win games. We have to strive ourselves going against our offense and being able to do that. It’s good. We just have to be able to put it together when it’s time to go on Sundays.”
These are the ebbs and flows of coaching camp. Tagovailoa had a run of efficient, environment friendly practices between joint periods with the Buccaneers final week and a number of other intrasquad practices main as much as it. Aside from the interceptions, he was off the mark on a number of throws Tuesday.
“It’s iron sharpens iron. We come out and try our best to make each other better,” mentioned vast receiver Trent Sherfield, who wore the orange jersey as earlier observe’s high performer and had one other standout efficiency Tuesday. “I really feel just like the protection obtained he better of us [Tuesday]. They got here out, and so they executed their performs properly. We had some hassle executing our performs throughout up entrance, exterior, quarterbacks, operating again. Everybody had hassle executing. … [Wednesday], we’ll come out. We’re going to attempt to get them once more.
“There’s days where defense wins, and then there’s days where offense wins.”
Although it was a down observe for Tagovailoa and the quarterbacks, Dolphins defensive backs had a bounce-back effort, coming off the Saturday exhibition, when the Bucs’ passing recreation had its manner. Jones, Needham and Igbinoghene all had interceptions and have been close to the ball on different performs after the three gave up a passing landing between them on Saturday.
Observations
Igbinoghene had a shoestring interception of Bridgewater in red-zone drills that might have been returned for a landing. Bridgewater had a profitable interval other than the interception, throwing touchdowns to Lynn Bowden, Cethan Carter and Sherfield. He later related with Sherfield once more, Cedrick Wilson and Braylon Sanders in one other string of red-zone touchdowns. …
Tagovailoa had a powerful situational drive, when he hit Wilson vast open off play motion, then Tyreek Hill sliding over the center for a giant chunk and Chase Edmonds into the flat to rapidly get Miami into the pink zone. The drive stalled for a Jason Sanders discipline purpose after Raheem Mostert dropped a third-and-2 go to the flat. …
Mike Gesicki noticed extra involvement within the type of targets, catching one landing from Tagovailoa, one other from Thompson, together with one other reception within the flat from Thompson. …
Connor Williams had a pair of excessive snaps once more early in 11-on-11 work after he didn’t play Saturday at Tampa Bay. It was not seen as a difficulty once more via later parts of observe. …
Terron Armstead was again to an elevated workload at left deal with, like in Thursday’s joint session with the Bucs, after getting the weekend off. Like Thursday, he known as it a day in one of many remaining sequence for the primary group. …
Darius Hodge, after his sack-fumble that led to a Sam Eguavoen landing on Saturday, had a third-down sack of Bridgewater that had a lot to do with protection. …
Zach Sieler had a strain on Tagovailoa that compelled a throwaway. Eguavoen broke up a Bridgewater go over the center. …
The run recreation was largely held down, however Edmonds burst via the left aspect of the road between the tackles for a large acquire early in Tuesday 11-on-11 drills. …
Kicker Jason Sanders, after going 4 for 4 on discipline objectives with two from 50-plus on Saturday, examined his leg on Tuesday, having a 66-yard try go off the crossbar no good and a 60-yarder with sufficient distance however vast left.
Stock up
Sherfield was the star of observe with 4 whole landing catches, together with three in red-zone work from the three totally different quarterbacks. Already with the orange jersey from the Thursday joint observe in Tampa, he may simply make a case for one more day with it for a first-time back-to-back winner since McDaniel made it a motivational software for the Dolphins in organized group actions. But it may go to one of many defensive backs with an interception.
Stock down
It needs to be Tagovailoa for the three interceptions. Two of them got here underneath the duress of two-minute drill motion, when the quarterback was compelled to maneuver rapidly up the sphere. McDaniel has mentioned he could be stunned if Tagovailoa doesn’t see any stay preseason motion, and now it’s lining up for him to begin on Saturday within the preseason dwelling opener towards the Raiders.
Injury report
Standout second-year vast receiver Jaylen Waddle missed Tuesday’s observe for undisclosed causes. He appeared wonderful after observe, catching balls on the Jugs machine.
Others not seen training have been exterior linebacker Brennan Scarlett, offensive deal with Greg Little, fullback John Lovett and offensive lineman Kellen Diesch.
Safety Sheldrick Redwine and cornerback Kader Kohou have been in attendance however seen operating on the aspect throughout group drills. Redwine missed joint practices with the Buccaneers and Saturday’s preseason recreation.
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