In what could become remembered as the “Year of the Quarterback Change”, the Miami Dolphins have just made a switch of their own at the game’s most important position.
This offseason, they let Ryan Tannehill go in a trade with the Tennessee Titans, and it left a gaping hole at quarterback. They signed veteran journeyman Ryan Fitzpatrick and during the 2019 NFL Draft, they traded a second-round pick and fifth-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals for Josh Rosen who was the 10th overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.
The Cardinals were willing to move on so quickly because they brought in a new coach and drafted Kyler Murray with the first overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. In his one season with Arizona, he didn’t look particularly great and some of the blame of that fell on the porous offensive line that the team had compiled to protect him.
With Miami, Rosen was offered a fresh start and all he had to do was beat out Fitzpatrick in training camp and he would be named the starter. That didn’t happen. Rosen saw the field in both of the first two games, due to the Dolphins losing both games by a combined 92 points.
Heading into a road meeting with another team unquestionably better than them in the Dallas Cowboys, the Dolphins announced that Rosen would be named the starter over Fitzpatrick.
The masses believe that part of the reason that Miami is playing so poorly is in an attempt to secure a future franchise quarterback in the draft. Rosen will get his chance now to prove to them that he can be that guy to build around.
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