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Time Out For Tua

NFL Live

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3.7588 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Welcome to NFL Live the league speaks today. Baker Mayfield on a critical game against the Panthers, Mike Vrabel on facing Lamar Jackson, and you will not want to miss what Travis Kelce had to say about his approach to these final 3 games. We start with the Dolphins who benched Tua Tagovailoa for Quinn Ewers today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The league speaks today, you guys, Baker Mayfield on a critical game against the Panthers, Mike Grable, on facing Lamar Jackson. And you do not want to miss what Travis

0:41.5

Kelsey had to say about his approach to these final three games with the Chiefs eliminated

0:45.6

from playoff contention. But we start with the Dolphins who bench Tuatunga by Loa for

0:50.4

Quinn Ewers today. New one NFL live. Here's Mike McDaniel. The decision is complicated but simple. The simple piece is I think Quinn gives this team the best chance to win.

1:05.0

Zach will be backing him up and Tua will be the emergency third, you know, starting with Tua.

1:15.8

It wasn't easy, you know, for him to hear.

1:19.4

I think it was, you know, a tough conversation. But also I think he exhibited what makes him a captain and a leader on this team and how he's going to help, you know, Quinn prepare for his first start.

1:32.9

Adam, Jeffter, with us all hour long.

1:35.2

Take us through, Adam, how we got here with Tua, and what's next for him and the Dolphins?

1:40.6

Well, Laura, we have a situation where right now, Tuatungo Vaila leads the NFL and

1:44.8

interceptions. And the offense has struggled at times. Clearly, you were there in Pittsburgh

1:48.8

on Monday night to watch it. The dolphins have seen the same. They've pondered some of these

1:53.6

changes and wondered when it might be the right time. Mike McDaniel thought about it this week,

1:58.7

slept on it last night, and decided this morning that it was time to move on from Tua Tunga Vaila, which is a seismic decision within this organization, considering that he has $99 million due to him, essentially, in salary cap money here.

2:14.6

So if the dolphins were to move on from Tua, there would be a $99 million cap charge.

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