Miami Dolphins starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa launched an astonishing attack on former head coach Brian Flores, calling him ‘a terrible person.’
Tagovailoa’s reasoning for going after the current Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator was his consistent treatment, allegedly telling his starter how bad he was at football.
Flores was the Dolphins head coach from 2019-2021, which included selecting Tagovailoa No 5 overall in the 2020 NFL Draft.
After Flores’ firing, he filed a discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, claiming improper treatment of the league’s minority coaches.
Yet, Tagovailoa’s attack paints a different light on his time as an NFL coach.
“If you woke up every morning and I told you that you suck at what you did, that you don’t belong, that you shouldn’t be here, that you haven’t earned this…
and then someone come and tells you, ‘You are the best fit for this…How you that make you feel?”
– @Tua describes the… pic.twitter.com/bBHI6IsVlj
— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) August 19, 2024
To put in simplest terms, if you woke up every morning and I told you you suck at what you did, that you don’t belong doing what you do, that you shouldn’t be here, that this guy should be here, that you haven’t earned this right, and then you have somebody else come in and tell you, “Dude, you are the best fit for this,”‘ Tagovailoa started, in an interview with Dan Le Batard.
Like, how would it make you feel listening to one or the other?’ Tagovailoa said. ‘You hear it more and more, you start to actually believe it.’
‘You have a terrible person that’s telling you things that you don’t wanna hear or you probably shouldn’t be hearing, you’re gonna start to believe that about yourself,’ Tagovailoa continued about Flores.
‘It’s basically been two years of training it out of, not just me, but a couple of the guys that have been here since my rookie year, all the way until now,’ Tagovailoa concluded.
Last season, under new head coach Mike McDaniel, Tagovailoa threw for a career-best 4,624 passing yards, more than the former Alabama national champion had in his two seasons under Flores.
Flores has not directly responded to Tagovailoa’s comments, but described his dynamic with Tagovailoa as a good ‘player-coach relationship.’
Tagovailoa strongly feels differently. The Vikings and Dolphins do not play this season.
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