QB Tua Tagovailoa meets with the media | Miami Dolphins

QB Tua Tagovailoa meets with the media | Miami Dolphins

All right. So, um, you know, I as as a leader of this team of the Miami Dolphins, um, you know, the the comments that that had been said, uh, I would say I’ve I’ve made a mistake and I’m owning up to that right now. Um, you know, I’ve talked to to guys on a team about it, talked to the leaders about it, and uh, you know, that they they know my heart. They know that the intent was right, but no matter the intent, um, you know, the intent can be right, but when things get misconstrued or however the media wants to portray it, you know, that that leaves a void of of silence and a lot of questions for the guys on our team. Now, being one and five, you know, we talk a lot about, all right, we we got to get this going. We got to get this going. come in excited to go to work, forget about the noise, and I feel like I I just added on to that for for our guys. Um, you know, for for myself, I got to look at myself as as the leader, protecting the team. I don’t feel like I I did that to the best of my abilities. I felt like I let the emotions of the game get to me after the game. And uh you know that’s something that I can learn from as a leader on this team and what happens in-house should be protected and none of that should have gotten out and so want to publicly apologize about that. Want to move forward and now I want to focus on Cleveland Browns. Got any questions? When moments like that how tough are those discussions when you have to have them when there’s like you said there’s a lot being said from all kinds of directions about what you said. How tough is it to sift through everything to make sure they get your point of what you meant and clear the air? Well, I think it’s the intent, right? What was the intent? And I think just the emotions, the built-up emotions after the game. No one wants to lose, but just not allowing myself to stay in the moment and, you know, just kind of get outside of that. Um, you know, you just have those kind of conversations. What is the intent? and then you kind of you kind of move from there. So, uh we’ve had some conversations with that. In general, do you feel at this moment that overall team culture is still an issue? I I I wouldn’t say so. Um having conversation with guys today, seeing the way guys are out there at practice, I wouldn’t say so. What sort of reaction have you gotten in your uh conversations with teammates? or they would you cl class classify it as understanding or anger or frustration or what’s well I I would say guys had questions about it right so you got to you got to answer those questions the why um and then some of the wise were like man at that time I didn’t think of it like that you know and so as I said that that’s something I got to be better with in protecting the team and uh you know just can’t do that. Why do you think it came out in that moment? I think you mentioned a little bit of frustration. Yeah, frustrated. Um and as I said like you just can’t happen, you know, like that. That’s one of the things you can’t happen or you can’t have happen. Um especially the way things are going for our team being one and five. I can see how how that can be misconstrued or whatever. not um after it being a loss too. So, who are some of the best leaders on the offense? You got Alec Ingode, you got uh Aaron Brewer, um Austin Jackson. Uh I mean, you you you got a lot of guys even even uh Devon Achan. Uh you you got a lot of guys and then vice versa with the defensive side. Jordan Brooks, you got Bradley Chub, Zack Cer, uh Minka Fitzpatrick, uh Tyrell Dodson, like you you got a good amount of guys. With those playerled meetings, what’s the benefit you guys get out of it? How would you classify how those meetings go? Well, I would say that’s something that you know, rule number one, protect the team. That’s something that I think we should be keeping inhouse. So, I don’t I I I don’t want to speak about that. when you’re losing games, is what is what kind of strain does that put on relationships among teammates, among coaches and players when you’re all have one goal in mind to win, but it’s not happening? Yeah, I I would say first and foremost, you get to see who a person really is as you’re going through the hardships, right? You get to see, okay, does this person start pointing fingers? Does this person, you know, take it upon themselves every time? How does everyone go about that? I think you kind of get a good gauge about the team that you have as well with with um with that. But I I would say there’s there hasn’t been any bickering or pointing of of fingers um lately. There’s there’s just guys that putting their head down trying to work and do the best that they can to put us in the best position to to win games. How was it playing through both the hip and the thumb elements? Yeah, that was that was uh it was good. I mean had some some plays off that that were off that I felt but got to keep going. What kind of challenge does Miles Garrett present on the other side? Uh he presents he presents a big challenge. um got to make sure that we’re accounting for him, knowing where he is at all times on the field, and then when he’s not on the field, uh you know, what do we want to do about that as well? Speaking of Miles Garrett, you know, we’ve seen Patrick Paul be kind of juiced for these matchups, right? He was juiced for Miles, juiced for Aiden Hutchinson, you know, during training camp. Just what does that do for a team to have a guy that’s just excited about those matchups? And then, you know, what’s your expectation for him? I think it tells you the the person and the mindset that that Pat comes into these games with having that opportunity to play against someone of Miles Garrett’s caliber, right? When he has that opportunity, he looks to always flourish every time. That’s the kind of mindset that he has. And so, the expectation that I have for him is to go out and do what he does. How much do you know Dylan Gabriel? Uh, obviously from the the same state, um, left-handed quarterback, same way. Um, and what do you think of uh how he’s going early in his career? Yeah, I mean, smooth thrower. I knew of him growing as he was growing up. Um, and then, you know, I think I think I might have played one year as he was he was maybe a freshman or something playing varsity. Um, but yeah, knew knew about him then and then as he you know, went into college and did his thing. smooth thrower, can run, you know, sees sees the field really well, and he’s a he’s a Hawaii boy. So, you know, you always got to support uh the guys from back home. Final question. Thanks, guys.

QB Tua Tagovailoa meets with the media

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