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\u2019s senior passing game coordinator \u2014 his first with the Dolphins.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re way early in the process of this whole thing\u2026 the player evaluation mode, we\u2019re still in that also. There\u2019s a lot of new coaches that got to get to know the team, so even getting to the point where we\u2019re able to talk about who\u2019s going to be here, how we\u2019re going to do this \u2014 we haven\u2019t even gotten anywhere remotely close to that with the exception of knowing that we\u2019re going to try to push competition as often as we can at every single spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Slowik continued, \u201cWhat I can say, you know, last year, that was a difficult year \u2014 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 \u2014 you can\u2019t say enough about that, about how good of a person he was and how he handled that situation. It\u2019s all you could ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if he thought Tagovailoa could rebound from a rough 2025 season both mentally and physically, Slowik had this to say:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I think is so great about sports\u2026 and a large reason why people get into coaching is there\u2019s stories like that all the time. You\u2019re talking about people that are at the peak of their profession. They\u2019re the best in the world at what they do. Not just physically, but mentally they\u2019re some of the strongest human beings there are and some of the things all athletes \u2014 every year you hear comeback stories \u2014 come back from are incredible. So, absolutely, I think Tua can, he can absolutely bounce back.\u201d<\/p>\n