That’s why you draft the big, strong quarterback.
That special play.
That gotta-have-it moment in Sunday’s final seconds where Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert escaped the hard grasp of Jaelan Phillips to the point the Miami Dolphins edge rusher sat at his locker staring ahead through another loss’ silence and saw only that play.
Twenty minutes passed after the game. Thirty. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa had already talked about players not attending players-only meetings , or being late for them, or something that shows he still has no idea how to lead a team or be the voice of a franchise.
Phillips kept staring straight ahead, wrapped in a towel and his frustrated thoughts. He had Herbert for the sack, and maybe the win, with 40 seconds left and the Dolphins up