Tua: Fins 'not afraid to talk about Super Bowls'

MIAMI -- Coach Mike McDaniel said Wednesday that the Miami Dolphins' trades for Bradley Chubb and Jeff Wilson Jr. earlier the commercialized deadline "bring immoderate added life" to his team's play and the locker room. From backmost Tua Tagovailoa's perspective, the trades reinforced what helium already believed astir the team.

"I deliberation passim OTAs and passim grooming camp, we could spot the imaginable that we had arsenic a team, offensively and defensively," helium said Wednesday. "We're not acrophobic to speech astir Super Bowls here. We're not acrophobic to speech astir going to a playoff game, having the accidental to spell to one, and past hopefully winning one.

"I would accidental I person afloat content that we are susceptible [of winning a Super Bowl]."

The Dolphins (5-3) acquired Chubb from the Denver Broncos and Wilson from the San Francisco 49ers earlier Tuesday's commercialized deadline successful an effort to fortify their likelihood astatine a Super Bowl tally this season.

Miami has won 2 games successful a enactment entering its Week 9 matchup with the Chicago Bears, and moving backmost Raheem Mostert says adding high-caliber players similar Chubb and Wilson tin beryllium a morale boost -- adjacent erstwhile morale is already high.

"It's ever a bully feeling knowing that we're sitting successful a bully spot close now, particularly astatine 5-3," helium said. "We conscionable person to enactment the pieces together, get those guys going with america and let's spot wherever it takes us."

Dolphins wide manager Chris Grier said helium made the commercialized for Chubb successful bid to adhd a "really bully subordinate astatine a premium position," but stopped abbreviated of calling it an all-in move. He said helium anticipates a semipermanent woody for Chubb being finalized shortly.

He said helium hasn't fixed himself clip to bespeak connected the roster helium has constructed aft a flurry of big-name additions since March. Grier orchestrated a commercialized for All-Pro wide receiver Tyreek Hill and signed Pro Bowl near tackle Terron Armstead successful March, past added Pro Bowl linebacker Melvin Ingram successful May.

"I've ever conscionable viewed it arsenic ever conscionable trying for america to enactment unneurotic the champion squad we can," helium said. "So for us, I deliberation we person a batch of bully players. I deliberation Mike [McDaniel] and this coaching unit person done a large occupation of moving with these guys, implementing their strategy and doing things that springiness america a accidental to win.

"I'm not into predictions and everything, but I bash deliberation we person a bully squad that has a accidental to vie and triumph immoderate games successful the future."