Dolphins bench Tua Tagovailoa for Quinn Ewers + Where could Tua land in 2026? (12/18 Hour 1)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hour 1: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including Dolphins benching Tua Tagovailoa in favor of rookie QB Quinn Ewers, Tua calling his future with Dolphins "out of my control", and Tyreek Hill reacting to the news of Tua's benching.

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0:00.0	Coming up today on PFC Live, the Dolphins have made a quarterback change.
0:03.5	What does it mean for the futures of Tua Tua and Mike McDaniel in Miami?
0:08.5	Rams receiver Pooka and Kua finds himself in a little hot water after a live stream appearance.
0:13.0	Plus, we've got some big division duels in week 16.
0:16.0	We'll get ready for them all next on PFT Live.
0:20.5	I've been trying to coach and trying to improve.
0:24.2	And when things, you know, aren't to the standard, I have to change it.
0:34.4	Mike McDaniel from yesterday, just a little piece of his commentary,
0:43.0	acknowledging what anyone paying attention knew was coming.
0:47.8	If we figured it out, and the bar is low, if we knew it was coming,
0:56.6	anyone paying attention knew it was coming.
0:59.2	He had come right up to the edge earlier this year.
1:00.1	He used that same.
1:02.3	Everything is on the table comment after a game.
1:04.6	By the next day, he said Tua is still the starter.
1:08.9	This time around, he says everything is on the table, and then boom.
1:10.5	Tua Tua Tengabailoa.
1:16.4	Not for Zach Wilson, benched for seventh round rookie. Text light, yeah, text right, text, flight, text, yeah, text right.
1:21.4	That's right.
1:22.9	Quinn yours, baby.
1:25.1	Yeah, I'm dead.
1:25.7	Quinn yours.
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