Less than a month ago, Mike White was prepping for his second season with the Miami Dolphins. The backup quarterback spent his days in the quarterback room with Tua Tagovailoa and he studied up on Mike McDaniel’s offense and playbook.
So are the Dolphins even a little bit worried that White is now a member of the Buffalo Bills’ practice squad?
“No,” said Tagovailoa on Tuesday.
Pressed to expound, Tagovailoa explained that there’s not a whole lot that White could do to prep the Bills defense for what’s coming Thursday night.
“We don’t really signal. The words, he’s not in our huddle with us listening,” Tagovailoa said. “And with all due respect, they can understand all the concepts we’re running, but are we running that concept on that play with what they’re trying to do?
“That’s just the whole game. We both got to go out and play, whether we know their signals, whether we know what they got going on and vice versa, at the end of the day, we both got to go out there and we got to go play.”
Yet, despite Tagovailoa’s insistence that White can’t do much to help the Bills, the Dolphins quarterback says he has a couple resources in former Buffalo defenders Jordan Poyer and Siran Neal.
“They know in the backend signals with what the Bills do and how they communicate things that they’ve done to stop us previous years,” Tagovailoa said of the pair of ex-Bills who signed with Miami earlier this year. “[I] can take a lot of the information that I’ve been given from those guys early in the week and apply it to Thursday.”
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