jammer wrote:
I'll take the bait and be captain obvious. That is a joke tweet from a Miami fan taking a shot at the critics of Tua aka just because the 5th year option hasn't been picked up doesn't mean Miami doesn't believe in him.
Looks like you may be onto something there.
Barry Jackson (Miami Herald) wrote:
Chris Canty, making assumptions that he shouldn’t, said the Dolphins “are not sure about our quarterback based on the health factor and [they want to] see what else is out there to be had in the marketplace. The only reason they’re not exercising Tua’s fifth year option immediately is because they’re not sold on him.”
Actually, not a single team has exercised its fifth-year option on any quarterback in the 2020 class.
It’s commonplace for teams to wait until closer to the deadline. Since the fifth-year option was created in the 2011 CBA, there have been 175 instances of a team exercising a fifth-year option, and only three have happened in March.
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