Tua Tagovailoa: Dolphins’ Playoff Dream Not Dead Yet

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa isn’t giving up his playoff hopes — at least not yet.

The Dolphins had just seen their three-game winning streak end with a 30-17 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving evening when Tagovailoa addressed the fact that Miami is two games behind Denver for the final AFC wild-card spot at 5-7.

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“As far as season hopes, I would say that this one was a tough one for us as a team,” he said. “I know what this game meant to a lot of guys in that locker room. I wouldn’t say the dream’s dead for our team just yet. Anything can happen in this league.

It was Tagovailoa who after last week’s victory over the Patriots said he was excited for the opportunity to “kill” narratives that the Dolphins couldn’t play in cold weather, or in prime time, or compete with the NFL’s best teams on the road.

“That’s the thing with narratives,” McDaniel said. “There’s one way to change them. And so, yeah, my expectation would be the naysayers will, you know, you prove them right, they’ll be louder. So that’s part of the territory. You have to, you carry that until you do something about it. And fortunately, we didn’t tonight.”

McDaniel, too, wasn’t giving up postseason hopes with Miami mathematically still alive.

“We didn’t come all this way to have this stop us,” he said. “Yeah, your margin of error is smaller, but tough-minded individuals can learn from the things that kept us from the victory column this game and utilize it in the last five games.”