Tua wasn’t good tonight. But neither was anybody else, really. Blame cannot be placed on one or two individuals. It was a “team” suck-a-tude tonight.
This doesn’t absolve Tua for his subpar game, but when 4/5th’s of your starting line is out (yes, Fowler, Riddick, and Orlovsky, it was 4 not 3 starting lineman out) — it’s a lot harder to succeed and look good.
The narrative is gonna be that Tua sucked because Tyreek was out. And that surely didn’t help. But the main reason for offensive letdown and disjointed play was the o-line being injury-riddled. They ran the ball well, somewhat surprisingly to me, but that’s about it.
McDaniel knew this which is why he leaned on the run game so much. But he seemingly abandoned it too often once they got into the redzone. And Tua knew it too, as he looked panicked and had happy feet almost any time he dropped back.
Why does this team have to always be so injury-prone at key positions? It just never seems to settle down.
