Five Things I Think I Think About the Miami Dolphins – Week 16

Key Highlights

• Who cares?Ewers had a lot of college experience and success.
• I have to say, over a one game NFL sample size, he looks comfortable in the pocket: No happy feet and no panic around pressure.
• So, that’s cool. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe doesn’t share a lot of traits with Tua (in the sense that Ewers feels like more of a traditional pocket passer not inexorably tied to timing routes and quick release plays), so to see him in MM’s offense is fascinating. One perspective is that the game plan should lean on the run and not ask too much of a rookie in his debut.
• The other is that it should call for plays that attempt to instill confidence in him (even if it’s halfway pretend) by letting him rip it since you literally have nothing to lose. MM’s game plan kinda did a little bit of both.
• The team had 28 carries to 30 pass attempts, so they were well balanced, but let the guy just huck it downfield once in a while.