The full schedule for all 32 teams in the National Football League came out last week — including all preseason games for each club. Eagle-eyed Dolphins fans quickly spotted a preseason tilt against the Atlanta Falcons taking place on Friday, August 28th at Hard Rock Stadium, which meant former starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa would be returning to South Florida to square off against the team that drafted him with the fifth overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.
On Tuesday, Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley
met with the local media following the team’s OTA practice and was questioned about Miami’s plans for joint practices with preseason opponents.
According to Miami’s new coach, the Dolphins will not be conducting joint practices with the Falcons prior to their preseason matchup — which means Miami’s fans and media will not be seeing Tagovailoa going to work against the Dolphins prior to their scheduled exhibition battle. It’s also possible that the lefty signal-caller could sit out that preseason game due to it being the final one for Atlanta prior to the regular season. If that happens, curious eyeballs would have to wait even longer until they could witness Tagovailoa suiting up for an opposing team against Miami.
We’ll have to wait and see what comes to pass on game day, but one thing we know for certain is that Tagovailoa and the Falcons will not be squaring off with Hafley’s Dolphins any sooner than their preseason matchup.
During the same availability, Hafley did confirm the Dolphins would practice against the Washington Commanders and New York Giants ahead of their preseason clashes against each other, so the Dolphins will not be missing out on the “iron sharpening iron” portion of the NFL preseason.
