Tua Tagovailoa needs to make new Miami Dolphins safety DeShon Elliott a believer

New Miami Dolphins safety DeShon Elliott created an uproar with a tweet regarding Lamar Jackson

Someone clearly didn’t send Deshon Elliott the memo.

As one of the newest members of the Miami Dolphins after signing a one-year deal worth $1.77 million, the journeyman safety seemingly missed the lecture about players and coaches offering Tua Tagovailoa their unwavering support and pledging allegiance to the team’s starting quarterbacks.

That’s the only way to explain why Elliott unwisely placed a #CometotheDolphins hashtag as a reply to a tweet regarding Lamar Jackson requesting a trade from the Baltimore Ravens.

As tempting as it might be for everyone — Dolphins players included — to covet Jackson, a South Florida native who has taken the league by storm since entering in 2019, it’s in poor taste to express interest in another team’s starting quarterback when your team already has one.

Especially a week after the franchise opted into Tagovailoa’s fifth-year option, which guarantees him a $23.2 million salary for the 2024 season, nearly two months before they needed to do it.

And it doesn’t help that head coach Mike McDaniel admitted the team did so to silence media scrutiny about Tagovailoa, whose potential, future and possible replacements have been a hot-button debate his entire NFL career.

“They need to know, we need to tell them (about) this fifth-year option,” McDaniel said at the NFL owners meeting Monday. “So, hopefully that way I didn't have to play unnecessary poker face for no reason.”

Even if adding Jackson would be a clear upgrade — and it would be based on what both quarterbacks have accomplished to this point in their careers — a teammate can’t publicly lobby for Jackson on a social media platform.

It’s in poor taste, and will have consequences.

The Dolphins might force Elliott to write “Tua is quarterback Numero Uno” 500 straight times as punishment during his first week of OTAs.

ELLIOTT HEARS ABOUT HIS TWEET FROM DOLPHINS FANS

Immediately after the faux pas, Elliott was bombarded with responses to his tweet, and it’s clear that Tuanon gave him a social media flocking.

“LMAOOO AYE IT’S JUST TWITTER. Calm down,” Elliott wrote, shortly before deleting the initial post less than an hour later.

He ended that tweet with a crying emoji, which is a fitting choice of an emoji considering how painful it must have been to experience being called out by numerous members of your new fan base.

Elliott then used a GIF of professional boxer Adrian Broner saying, “I ain’t gonna lie, I’m getting cooked,” to his “IT’S JUST TWITTER” post.

Wouldn’t be the first time Elliott had witnessed Tagovailoa's chef skills.

He was on the sidelines with an injury when Tagovailoa led the Dolphins’ rally from a double-digit, second-half deficit, delivering a 31-27 win over the Detroit Lions back in October.

In that game Tagovailoa completed 29 of 36 passes for 382 yards and three touchdowns.

So Elliott knows first-hand Tagovailoa, who finished the 2022 season as the NFL’s top-rated passer with a 105.5 passer rating after completing 64.8 percent of his passes, throwing for 3,548 yards and 25 touchdowns in the 13 games he played last season, is no slouch.

But there’s now evidence that he might not be a believer just yet.