MIAMI GARDENS ― Visor Tua is here to stay.
After a four-touchdown performance for the Miami Dolphins in a Week 8 defeat of the Atlanta Falcons, Tua Tagovailoa is keeping the visor.
“Yeah, I think the guys like the visor, so I’ll stick with the visor,” Tua said, days before a Week 9 “Thursday Night Football” game against the Baltimore Ravens.
Tua played with somewhat hampered vision in one eye in Atlanta after waking up with a problem in Atlanta.
“It’s good,” Tua said of how his eye is now. “I could see a lot better than I could (in Atlanta) in terms of how open my eyelid was or how closed it was. So it’s been good.”
Will Tua keep the visor even when fully healed?
“Yeah,” he said.
Visor here to stay, says Tua Tagovailoa
Tua still isn’t sure what type of illness led to a swollen eye the day of the Falcons game. But if he can play as well against Baltimore as he did Atlanta, he’d take it.
“These short weeks make it tough to where if you’re not on it, you’re gonna’ get exposed on Thursday,” Tua said. “So just gotta’ make sure all our guys are on it.”
Tua suggested the team has a good mindset.
“The consistency,” Tua said of recent weeks. “Everyone came into the building wanting to work and wanting to fix things. It has been very consistent.”
Joe Schad is a journalist covering the Miami Dolphins and the NFL at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach him at jschad@pbpost.com and follow him on Instagram and on X @schadjoe. Sign up for Joe’s free weekly Dolphins Pulse Newsletter. Help support our work by subscribing today.
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