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Gisecki, Waddle and Gaskin. The 2 INT's that Tua threw cost Miami the game. If he doesn't throw those picks the 4 TD's he throws would have easily won the game. 4 TD's is great except when you wipe them out by costing your team 14 points on those 2 plays.

I don't have a problem with the first one. Had the tight end been Gesicki instead of Smythe, that's a TD. Smythe gets his head around maybe a bit late, but he *never* adjusts. All he had to do was get one step to the right, instead he took three steps straight ahead. So just a small adjustment and it's a TD (at worst an incomplete, if he can't hold on and the defender breaks up the pass).


The second INT, I absolutely hate. Our quarterbacks need to be smarter when about to be sacked. Either you throw it away, practically into the ground (like Brady) or you eat the sack. Tua is good at holding on to the ball while going down (unlike Tannehill, who I absolutely love as a quarterback, but holding on to the ball while being hit was not a strength), so just eat the sack, especially if you aren't standing 10+ yards behind the line of scrimmage. We've had this problem for a long, long time - probably ever since after Pennington. And it's absolutely infuriating, because unlike a lot of things with quarterbacks, it's eminently coachable.

I'm with Pappy13 on game balls. Those three were awesome. Overall, I'm giving it to Gesicki.

Gesicki and Tua...with an honorable mention to Jevon Holland. 5 solo tackles, a sack, a pass defensed and a nice little punt return thrown in for good measure. He may be the best player on the defense at this point, and if not, he appears to be headed in that direction.

The problem with that INT is that Tua either never saw the safety or threw it anyway to a player that was double covered inside and out. The safety had read the play the whole way and was in the perfect position to intercept. He broke on the ball the second it was let go and was in a better position to catch it than the TE was. It's a bad pass. Yeah QB's get away with bad throws all the time, but Miami can't afford for Tua to throw bad passes in the red zone. That one you have to read the defense and not throw that pass, either throw to someone else (he had a RB in the flat that was open, would not have gained much yardage, but more than likely would have been completed and gives the RB a chance to do something) or throw it away and hopefully still get points. It's not as bad as the 2nd one, but it's still a bad read and throw.

Tua for sure.

For the naysayers, his first INT, Smythe was supposed to cut hard at the 4 yard line instead of rounding off into the endzone, that's on Smythe.  His second, he threw it right at where Waddle was and Waddle moved.  Also, Austin Jackson completely whiffed on his guy creating pressure to begin with, AJ is such a liability.  The second one was still a bad throw, he should have taken the sack, but it wasn't just on him.  Still you can't ignore 4 TDs.