Braxton Berrios breaks down how Tua Tagovailoa's injury derailed Dolphins' 2024 season

NEW ORLEANS – Injuries tin beryllium a make-or-break storyline for conscionable astir each squad in the NFL, nary substance the season. 

For the Miami Dolphins past season, it was a large one, which is ne'er a bully thing. 

Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered his 4th documented concussion, this clip portion moving for a archetypal down successful Week 2 against the Buffalo Bills. 

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Miami Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa walks onto the tract anterior to the crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Hard Rock Stadium. (Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images)

Another concussion for Tagovailoa meant 4 missed games, and the Dolphins went 1-3 successful that span to rapidly autumn to 2-4 connected the season. Of course, this is simply a Miami squad that has each the firepower to instrumentality the apical disconnected defenses and tally up the scoreboard. 

However, similar Braxton Berrios, 1 of the Dolphins past play who unluckily could not play each 17 games owed to a torn ACL, said, "Injuries happen."

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When they hap to a backmost similar Tagovailoa, who is the cardinal to making Mike McDaniel's fast-paced, timing-oriented discourtesy work, it tin derail a season. 

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Braxton Berrios, #0, works retired during associated signifier with the Washington Commanders astatine Baptist Health Training Complex. (Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports)

"I deliberation a batch of times, things don’t autumn your mode immoderate seasons," Berrios, who was astatine Radio Row up of Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans connected behalf of IRCode, said. "I deliberation that’s portion of the crippled – it’s an imperfect crippled played by imperfect people. Injuries happen, a batch of antithetic things happen."

Tagovailoa was yet capable to travel backmost successful Week 8, but the Dolphins did not click immediately. They mislaid his archetypal 2 starts backmost earlier yet dropping the streak connected the roadworthy against the Los Angeles Rams. 

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However, it was a play wherever the Dolphins did not power their ain playoff destiny arsenic they had successful the past, and they missed retired connected a chaotic paper spot. 

Tagovailoa took the play particularly tough, knowing things mightiness person been antithetic if helium had played each 17 games. Again, to Berrios' point, injuries tin travel astatine the worst times. 

He utilized different squad arsenic a cleanable example. 

"You look astatine Detroit, their defence was decimated," helium said of the Lions. "Those fans could easy say, ‘If we didn’t get truthful injured, we mightiness beryllium here.’ And they’re astir apt perfectly right. But the information of the substance is, it’s portion of the crippled and you conscionable gotta spell with it. Injuries tin derail things immoderate seasons, and you conscionable got to prime up wherever you near off, and usage it arsenic motivation, arsenic thing else."

Berrios volition beryllium heading to escaped bureau this offseason, but helium has nary uncertainty those successful the Miami gathering are the close ones to get backmost to playoff shot successful 2025. 

"I deliberation the radical successful the locker country were the close ones," helium said. "Obviously, escaped bureau volition hap and who knows there, but I deliberation that unit and that upstairs squad is successful the implicit close direction. I deliberation they person what it takes, but you conscionable request a fewer much things to shingle your way. We’ll spot what happens successful escaped agency."

No substance wherever helium mightiness extremity up, Berrios knows precisely however bully Tagovailoa tin beryllium erstwhile helium is 100% steadfast connected the field. 

"First and foremost, unthinkable guy. Very bully friend, we’re really unneurotic this play hanging out," helium said. "Incredible athlete, and the accuracy and timing are 2nd to none. He makes the discourtesy tick, obviously. All of abrupt erstwhile helium comes back, everything is rolling similar it’s expected to."

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Berrios was down successful New Orleans connected behalf of IRCode, which is changing the mode we interact with content, whether it beryllium watching TV oregon looking astatine an image. 

The shot prima broke down the "absolutely crazy" acquisition helium had with the exertion that helium believes volition revolutionize the connectivity of brands with consumers.

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"To ticker unrecorded sports and beryllium capable to interact digitally [and] immediately? The instant gratification happening is simply a immense happening successful our society, and truthful is the gamification. So, for me, it’s specified a chill mode for maine to interact with fans successful a antithetic way, a unrecorded way. If I person thing I privation to beforehand oregon I privation to push, erstwhile they scan maine connected TV alternatively of conscionable getting my jersey, [or] phantasy stats, immoderate it is, I tin plug successful my instauration oregon thing other I privation to pb oregon nonstop them to. It’s archetypal of its benignant and a truly chill mode for america to interact with fans."

"You unfastened the app, you don’t person to property thing oregon unfastened anything. It scans it for you and it takes you wherever you’re expected to be. It’s truly cool."

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