'Got to play better football': Tua Tagovailoa gets a second chance in Atlanta
In bringing in Tagovailoa, the Falcons are setting up a quarterback competition with incumbent Michael Penix Jr.
Tua Tagovailoa will freely concede that his last year in Miami didn’t live up to anything close to expectations. He won’t go into details, but nobody was happy — least of all him — with a benching-grade season in which he threw 15 interceptions and the Dolphins as a franchise cratered. “My play wasn't up to the standard of the way I've been playing football the past three years,” Tagovailoa told reporters on Tuesday at his introductory press conference in Atlanta.
“Got to play better football. That’s what that really means. There’s no other way to sugarcoat that or go around that.
” Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season The Falcons signed Tagovailoa to a one-year, $1. 3 million contract earlier this month shortly after the Dolphins released him . Tagovailoa offers the Falcons an incredibly low-cost option if injured starter Michael Penix Jr.
isn’t ready to go after November ACL surgery … or if he’s not playing at the expected level once he’s in the lineup. When Penix tore his left ACL in Week 11 last season, the Falcons faced a host of bad choices. Kirk Cousins spelled Penix for the remainder of the season, very nearly taking the Falcons to a playoff berth.
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