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Kelly: No turning back from Quinn Ewers now | Opinion

Click-baity headline, but it goes into why Ewers was promoted to 2nd string and what the Dolphins will do from here. 

tl;dr:

1. Ewers ran the scout team all week and wasn't told he'd be 2nd string until Saturday night;

2. Wilson was demoted because he was so bad in practice during the week that McDaniel decided to bench him for a 7th round rookie who'd been running the other teams' plays all season.

Wow.

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“I have no clue,” Ewers said after the game when asked why the Dolphins made the switch at backup quarterback against the Browns. “I have no idea, to be honest with you.”

Will it continue through next week?

“We’ll see,” said Ewers, who completed 5 of 8 passes, throwing for 53 yards in his fourth-quarter work against the Browns.

He was sacked two times, and 40 of those 53 yards came on a deep pass to Dee Eskridge, which Ewers threw a second before being blasted by a Browns defensive lineman who had easily gotten by left guard Jonah Savaiinaea, a fellow rookie.

Ewers was told he would be the backup Saturday evening, after the team arrived at its Cleveland hotel.

“It was a usual week of work for me, working scout team or whatnot,” said Ewers, who completed 64.9% of his passes in college, throwing for threw for 9,128 yards and 68 touchdowns in three seasons at Texas. “At the end of the day, it’s part of our position to be prepared for the game plan, whatever it may be.”

After the game McDaniel admitted he told Wilson the switch had a ton to do with how he practiced that week, and the rainy conditions Miami was planning to play in.

 

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