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Inside The Huddle

NFL Week 16 preview: Tua benched, respect for Rivers & the unpredictable playoff race

Inside The Huddle

Sky Sports

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.4636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Neil and Pheobe preview the NFL's Week 16 matches on the latest episode of Inside The Huddle.

They also discuss the situation at Miami where the Dolphins have benched their quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, and chat about the return of Philip Rivers.

Plus, can Phoebe make up some ground on Neil as their picks competition reaches the end of the regular season?!

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0:00.0

Go inside the huddle with Sky Sports.

0:11.4

Hello everybody.

0:12.5

Welcome to Inside the Huddle.

0:14.6

I'm your host, Neil Reynolds, joined by my partner on a Thursday, Phoebe Schechter,

0:18.6

looking ahead to week 16 in the NFL.

0:22.4

So we've got games for you across Sky Sports Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

0:29.3

But before we get to the games and make our picks, Phoebe, we've got to talk big news out of Miami

0:35.5

in the benching of Tua, Tunga Vaila,

0:38.9

they're quarterback.

0:39.8

Miami are going to go with seventh round rookie Quinn Yuers, and Tua is relegated to the

0:46.7

third string quarterback.

0:48.0

What were your initial thoughts when you saw this?

0:50.7

Well, I think earlier in the week when McDaniel had come forward and said, everything is on the table, I think that's already red flags. And I think when, you know, we see this all time, coaches are finding ways to talk to the media, tell the people what their intentions are. And that was pretty clear. I really feel that, you know, we saw Chris Greer getting fired earlier, the general manager

1:12.2

earlier in the season. We're at a point now where Mike McDaniel has to try and save his job a little

1:19.6

bit. So in order to do that, here you bring in this rookie quarterback, well, you benched to it,

1:25.3

but you bring in a rookie quarterback who McDaniel

1:28.4

was a part of drafting. And so this is kind of, in my opinion, a last hurrah to say, look,

1:36.0

this is the kid who is going to kind of save my job and save all of our jobs.

1:42.9

I wanted to dig into this story, so I bypassed.

1:45.9

How are you, by the way?

1:47.4

Oh, don't even worry about that.

1:49.8

We are sure for just only.

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