For a second straight Miami Dolphins home game, air traffic over Hard Rock Stadium was conspicuously busy.
The Dolphins are hosting their second home game of the season on Monday night in a prime-time clash with the New York Jets. And Dolphins fans are sponsoring a second plane banner to fly over the team’s home stadium this season to voice their frustrations.
‘Help wanted: new coach, new GM, new QB,’ read the banner flying over Hard Rock Stadium on Monday night.
Two weeks prior, ahead of the Dolphins’ home opener against the New England Patriots, a plane flew over the stadium with a different banner that read, ‘Fire (Dolphins general manager Chris) Grier. Fire (Dolphins head coach Mike) McDaniel.’
Monday night’s banner notably added a new subject of Dolphin fan frustration: quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
Through three games, Tagovailoa has thrown four interceptions and fumbled twice while failing to record more than 200 passing yards in two out of his three outings. That’s led to a ranking of 31st of 34 NFL quarterbacks with a minimum of 64 plays in expected points added per play (-0.84), a PFF grade (52.9) that ranks 34th of 38 quarterbacks and a QBR (35.2) ranked 29th of 33.
The only quarterbacks with consistently worse or similar rankings in each category this season are Tennessee Titans rookie quarterback Cam Ward and the Cleveland Browns’ 40-year-old, veteran gunslinger Joe Flacco.
Meanwhile, Grier has been the team’s head executive since 2016, making him the third-longest-tenured GM in the team’s history. Miami holds a 75-76 record since he took over and are 0-3 in the playoffs.
McDaniel joined Miami as its head coach in 2022. He’s led the team to a 28-26 record since, including two playoff appearances in 2022 and 2023. Both ended with losses in the wild-card round.
The Dolphins lost their Week 1 game against the Indianapolis Colts, 33-8, hosted the New England Patriots in a 33-27 home opener loss in Week 2 and fell to the Buffalo Bills, 31-21, in Week 3’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ game.
