The Miami Dolphins promoted Bobby Slowik to offensive coordinator this offseason despite the departure of former head coach Mike McDaniel and the hire of new head coach Jeff Hafley. Slowik was with Miami last season as the team’s senior passing game coordinator — his first with the Dolphins.
On Wednesday, Slowik met with the South Florida media and discussed various topics. One of those topics was that of former first round pick, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
“We’re way early in the process of this whole thing… the player evaluation mode, we’re still in that also. There’s a lot of new coaches that got to get to know the team, so even getting to the point where we’re able to talk about who’s going to be here, how we’re going to do this — we haven’t even gotten anywhere remotely close to that with the exception of knowing that we’re going to try to push competition as often as we can at every single spot.”
Slowik continued, “What I can say, you know, last year, that was a difficult year — a difficult year for him without a doubt, for a lot of different reasons. What I think jumped out to me was the grace [in which] he handled that with the way he went about his daily routine through that season, even at the end of the year, the kind of person he was to everybody and to his teammates — you can’t say enough about that, about how good of a person he was and how he handled that situation. It’s all you could ask for.”
When asked if he thought Tagovailoa could rebound from a rough 2025 season both mentally and physically, Slowik had this to say:
“What I think is so great about sports… and a large reason why people get into coaching is there’s stories like that all the time. You’re talking about people that are at the peak of their profession. They’re the best in the world at what they do. Not just physically, but mentally they’re some of the strongest human beings there are and some of the things all athletes — every year you hear comeback stories — come back from are incredible. So, absolutely, I think Tua can, he can absolutely bounce back.”
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