Mike McDaniel reveals the Plan for Tua Tagovailoa moving forward
The Showponies are hyped for stock up and stock down. Mike McDaniel reveals the Plan for Tua moving forward. The guys discuss what Tua could potentially do when practices are open to the public. Has this Tua Contract situation and last year's collapse dampered Dolfans hopes?
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00:00If I cannot wait for the stock report today, I'm so excited.
00:03I just, I cannot wait.
00:04I, I'm, I, you know, people are out here.
00:08We're worried about what Tua's going to do.
00:09I really am just excited.
00:11Cause I want to know, can Cam Smith build off of yesterday?
00:15Can Chop Robinson build off of yesterday?
00:17Whose stock will be up and whose stock will be down?
00:20All I care about is let's, let's, let's get a little physicality.
00:24Let's put the pads on because you got to see how Chop Robinson's going to
00:27handle hands really being put on him.
00:30That's true.
00:30You know what I'm saying?
00:31So I'm going to be a boots on the ground on Sunday.
00:34I'm going to go.
00:35Where are you going?
00:36Yeah.
00:37Boots on the ground.
00:38I thought about it.
00:39I usually go once or twice a year, but it's too hot.
00:43Well, it ain't in Davie anymore.
00:44And I got, and I got, no, that's no, it's just right there for me.
00:48I can just operate on.
00:49But, um, the problem is got a golf tournament this weekend.
00:56And the trigger figure is fixed.
01:01Are you teaming up with, uh, with our boy Lou?
01:04No, no, no.
01:05It's a, um, the Broward amateurs this weekend.
01:09Ah, of course the BA, uh, Mike McDaniel has just addressed the media.
01:17This is, uh, the dolphins head coach on the plan with Tua for today.
01:23So, uh, we didn't observe him do anything yesterday.
01:26Was that veteran day of rest or was that part of his hold in?
01:30And what do you expect today?
01:31No, there's a, you know, the nothing's changed really, um, from that standpoint
01:36and how we're, uh, collectively approach and practice, um, the, uh, as far as
01:42today, I do think, I, I do think you'll observe, um, him playing football
01:48in a multitude of fashions.
01:50Do you guys talk every day about the plan for the day, or
01:54is there a plan for the week?
01:55How do you do that?
01:56Every day, you know, I think it's important to assess all variables.
02:01Um, take into consideration, uh, everyone involved as the head coach.
02:06And so, you know, you'd love to get in front of it, but there's a lot of days
02:10and that, uh, if you're trying to extrapolate that a lot of days that you
02:16can't account for different way, the wind blows.
02:19So, um, every day, uh, assessing exactly what we're doing, um, because
02:24we're trying to do good jobs here.
02:27Well, I appreciate everybody trying to do a good job.
02:30Y'all see, here's the thing.
02:35I can sense the, just annoying behavior of Mike McDaniel.
02:43He's answering like in his way, like when he answers short and just ends it
02:50like he's getting annoyed by it.
02:51Of course.
02:52Right.
02:52He is.
02:53And I don't blame him.
02:54But at the same time, he's trying to be a good soldier about it too.
03:01Right.
03:01So, and, and, and here's, here's the dip and here's why I wish Vlad was here.
03:07Right.
03:08Ouch.
03:09The way, no, the way his coach went after his quarterback for missing a couple of
03:15days in the way Mike McDaniel handles this situation, he ain't throwing nobody
03:22under the bus, right?
03:24He's trying not to, he's trying not to, but Sala just, but it is, look, as much
03:35as Mike McDaniel is fun, loving and a different guy, he is still a football
03:39coach and he is, and he is meticulous and he does want things run his way.
03:43And I'm sure he is sick of the, you know, getting a lot of your hands.
03:49I don't know.
03:50I mean, there is, there is nothing here.
03:54There is nothing at this point that Mike McDaniel could say that would get it done.
04:05But there was a lot that Mike McDaniel would say that could piss some people off.
04:11What if bosses or his star player?
04:16So it's, but at this point, at this point for him, isn't it more important
04:23for him to back his player than his bosses?
04:26Yes.
04:27So here's why, because there has been no person in this world that has
04:32supported tour more than Mike McDaniel.
04:36And if ever he gives any inclination that he doesn't support him as much as he has.
04:45Then that could affect what to it does on the field.
04:50I'm thinking about this.
04:50Cause the, the, the fans get to go out for the first time on Sunday.
04:54So two, uh, he balls out a couple of days.
04:56He gets that orange Jersey, then he controls the playlist.
04:59And I go back to D Wade's contract standoff back with the Miami heat, where
05:03on Snapchat he would play Rihanna's bitch, but I have my money.
05:07And so if he gets to control the playlist, we could just, uh, we can hear Rihanna.
05:11As soon as everybody comes out of the tunnel.
05:15Well, or do you feel like they wouldn't negate the playlist?
05:18It was a jab.
05:20Can't can't negate the playlist.
05:22Can't negate the rules.
05:23That was the rules.
05:24So he goes, they could come at him with.
05:28We can't have that kind of vulgar, you know, music on the thing.
05:33We say, well, I'll play the clean version.
05:40He goes, oh no, no, no.
05:41We've, uh, we've, we've replaced a bitch with the word.
05:43Fins better have my money.
05:49And there wouldn't be something about if all the, all the fans start cheering.
05:52Yeah, well, I am curious.
05:54I am very curious.
05:55Uh, you know, like what is going to be the fan reaction, especially if he's not
06:00acting like, I feel like if he goes out there and in front of the fans, I don't
06:04know what the better approach is not playing or throwing a bomb ski, probably
06:07throwing a bomb ski, but then all of a sudden everybody goes pay to pay to,
06:12you know, like, here's the problem.
06:15If the organization has supported to and handle this first two years, right.
06:23And we were to this point, I'd be more inclined to agree with them.
06:28Right.
06:29But part of the reason why two isn't farther along is because the way
06:35they handled to his first two years.
06:38And so then you can't turn around and then put that on him.
06:43Right.
06:43It was, it's like, and, and so, you know, and I wonder why any organization does
06:51this and people have been around football as long as all these people had no, the
06:57process of developing a player and what have you, and for people to just think
07:07that after two or three years, as a quarterback, you supposed to know when
07:14you come right into the lead playing at the next, at the highest level, right?
07:19You're learning on the fly.
07:21You're getting, you're taking your bumps and bruises in game time situations.
07:26Now add injury into that.
07:28Right.
07:29And so you can go back and use whatever excuse you want for tour.
07:35Fans can say, well, he hasn't won a big game.
07:38Well, hell hasn't nobody won a big game in 20 plus years here.
07:42So at what point are you going to give a guy a chance to do it?
07:46Was he supposed to do it right away?
07:49Well, I mean, like, that's what I don't get.
07:51Well, it's also like, this is going to be such a joyless season if
07:54we're going to go through this.
07:55And it's like, I can't, and I kind of, it kind of feels that way.
08:00Like it feels almost, you know, I feel like everybody was so amped for last
08:03year and I don't know that just, it feels like now it's back to, because
08:06it was such a heartbreaking and then listen, they had a part in it.
08:09They blew it last year.
08:11Yeah.
08:11Uh, yes.
08:12There was some very, very bad luck too, but ultimately like we were all
08:16riding high in the middle of that year.
08:18You had the one seat in hand, you had the AFC East in hand
08:21and you yacked all over yourself.
08:23And I feel like the trickle down has been, man, everybody just feels so.
08:29But like lifeless going into this year, can I, can I, can I.
08:33Here's the point in time where the organization has to sit back, evaluate
08:43the end of last year and, and come up with some honest answers.
08:48Why did this happen?
08:51Right.
08:52More so than we do more so than the fans do, because now we're sitting back
08:58looking as if we don't understand what happened last year with everybody being
09:04broken down, like, like that didn't matter.
09:07And so we have this conversation all the time when I say, if I'm a player and I'm
09:13not a hundred percent, I would question whether I should play because you're
09:17going to get graded as if you didn't try to suck it up and give whatever you can.
09:22And if you don't play fancy, well, why don't you give us something?
09:25This is why.
09:27Situations like this, that, that team was diminished to a level where it made them.
09:35It made it difficult for them to be the team that we saw in the middle of the season.
09:40Now get it.
09:43It goes to the quarterback.
09:44I get that.
09:45We can do that.
09:47Fans can do that, but not the organization.
09:50They should have the real reasons why it didn't work out for sure.
09:54And what they're doing is they're basically putting it all on two and two.