{"id":766461,"date":"2026-02-21T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766461\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:15:30","slug":"highest-priority-fix-for-every-afc-team-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766461\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest priority fix for every AFC team in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Replace Tua Tagovailoa (probably)<\/p>\n<p>While nothing is official yet, all signs are pointing to the Dolphins\u2019 new regime \u2014 namely GM Jon-Eric Sullivan and head coach Jeff Hafley \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/dolphins-expected-to-move-on-from-qb-tua-tagovailoa-in-2026-via-trade-or-release\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving on from Tua Tagovailoa this offseason<\/a>. The six-year starter saw good-not-great production deteriorate into 15 interceptions and a losing record (6-8) in 2025, with 12 of those interceptions coming on downfield passes (10+ air yards), most in the league. It seems Miami is now ready to take the risk of terrible over the \u201csafety\u201d of eight to nine wins and an early playoff exit. They promoted pass game coordinator Bobby Slowik to OC and hired former Eagles OC Kevin Patullo to fill Slowik\u2019s vacancy, but that doesn\u2019t reveal much about their plans considering the differences in approach by both offenses last year \u2014 for example, the Dolphins used the second-most pre-snap motion and the Eagles used the fourth-least, per <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.nfl.com\/?campaign=nfl-ca-it-nu-2066244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Pro<\/a>. Also, the options for a successor are thin: if \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/daniel-jones-x5302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Jones<\/a>\ufeff returns to Indy, the top free-agent QB is \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/malik-willis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Malik Willis<\/a>\ufeff, and if \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/fernando-mendoza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fernando Mendoza<\/a>\ufeff goes to Las Vegas, the rest of the 2026 QB class is less than inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Replace Tua Tagovailoa (probably) While nothing is official yet, all signs are pointing to the Dolphins\u2019 new regime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[1586,184,117,2282,53,127,256,54,12737,258,563,3619,7,253,392,125,872,110,393,262,251,249,255,6,64114,609,499,57,169,17,394,3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-766461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-cam-ward","14":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","15":"tag-cleveland-browns","16":"tag-d-k-metcalf","17":"tag-denver-broncos","18":"tag-deshaun-watson","19":"tag-fernando-mendoza","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-houston-texans","22":"tag-indianapolis-colts","23":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","24":"tag-josh-allen","25":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","26":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","27":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","28":"tag-miami-dolphins","29":"tag-new-england-patriots","30":"tag-new-york-jets","31":"tag-nfl","32":"tag-nfl-articles","33":"tag-no-minute","34":"tag-patrick-mahomes","35":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","36":"tag-ravens","37":"tag-shedeur-sanders","38":"tag-tennessee-titans","39":"tag-tua-tagovailoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}