In the NFL, you can have a monster performance, such as Tua Tagovailoa had in Week 1, and you’d still get the yeah, but counter argument.
After Tagovailoa threw for nearly 500 passing yards against the Chargers, some said, yeah, but it was against a poor defense. Yeah, but it was on artificial turf. (It sounds ridiculous, but I’m sure there’s a Reddit post somewhere questioning whether the Dolphins would play as fast on real grass.)
A better yeah, but heading into the Dolphins’ Week 2 matchup against the Patriots was whether coach Mike McDaniel could outsmart Bill Belichick in New England. Another was if Tagovailoa light up the scoreboard against one of the best defenses in the league.
