Did Tua Tagovailoa have the right response to Brian Flores' response?
Is Tua disrespecting Vlad by "lying" and not addressing or acknowledging Brian Flores comments? Leroy explains why Tua's response was the right response.
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00:00Yeah, I was just listening to Tua's press conference on, uh...
00:04Any mention of, uh...
00:05Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna bring it here for you guys, so we can get this here.
00:09Uh, I had a couple of questions, at least in the ongoing, I don't know if they'll revisit it.
00:13No, no, no, the way this works, guys, is this.
00:17We don't bring this up every day.
00:19We hadn't talked about it in a while.
00:21Right.
00:22And then the Levitar thing came up, and then for some reason,
00:26even after Tua had already said these things,
00:30it went viral again.
00:32Well, yeah.
00:33He's the most, uh...
00:34One of the most polarizing figures in the NFL.
00:36It's a salacious story.
00:37Yeah, but he had already commented on this long before that,
00:40but then when Levitar brought it up again,
00:42then everybody started talking about it again.
00:44I think the one element that's been missing is,
00:46we all knew that Tua had confidence shake,
00:49and we all knew that Tua had a great relationship with Mike McDaniel.
00:51I don't think he's ever really addressed a question
00:53directly asked about Brian Flores.
00:55Right.
00:56And then Brian Flores comes out the next day.
00:58He has his weird press conference.
01:00You know, and as I've said, like, once he comments on it,
01:04and Tua, I think when you hear his response here,
01:07he probably did the right thing, which is squash it.
01:10Um, I don't really know what else there is to say about it.
01:14Like, they got a big season coming up.
01:15It's kind of time to move on from it.
01:17Well, you said it right, Toby.
01:19It's the summer.
01:21It's training camp.
01:22Yeah, it was, it was, it was the worst week for Flores.
01:25If this happened week three, Flores, I'm like, yeah.
01:28But you know what?
01:29It was nothing going on during the summer.
01:30And guess what?
01:31He just got the bag.
01:32So Dave, definitely.
01:34I mean, I can look at it this way.
01:36Would he have mentioned this if he had not gotten his extension yet?
01:40I don't even know if he would have.
01:41I don't know if they would have asked him.
01:43Don't even know if he would have sat down with Dan if he didn't have his extension.
01:45So it's like, you know, you can ask him that question now,
01:48because he's got security.
01:50He's got security.
01:52There's a, there's a sense of comfort.
01:54Yep, and he knows what he's going to say.
01:57It's not going to be any repercussions because he's the face of the franchise
02:01right now.
02:01Here was Tua.
02:03This was him being asked about it by the media.
02:06And here's his talk on the Flores thing.
02:09I don't think anyone here thought we'd be re-litigating 2021 and 2022 this summer.
02:13Have you heard from Brian Flores in the last week?
02:16I haven't heard from him.
02:18Did you see his comments publicly?
02:20I haven't seen his comments publicly.
02:23Is there anything more that you'd like to add in the conversation to that?
02:25There's nothing more I'd like to add to that.
02:32All right, stop it.
02:34Stop the capping.
02:35You didn't see those comments publicly.
02:37He definitely saw those comments.
02:38You've had a week.
02:39And come on, man.
02:40Everybody's been waiting to ask you those questions.
02:42The Dolphins media relations people are going to prepare you for those questions.
02:46Let me ask you a question.
02:47Let me, let me make a comment.
02:50You, you're, you're forgetting how the game is played, right?
02:56Why did he say no?
02:57I didn't hear his comments.
03:01Because he doesn't want to comment on Flores's comments.
03:05So that nixes the follow-up question.
03:08And it's like, do you want to add anything to it?
03:10No, right.
03:10You see what I'm saying, Vlad?
03:12So, like, we can call it to a liar.
03:15When I know why he said no, is because the follow-up question,
03:21he would have got 30 follow-up questions about Brian Flores.
03:24So how do you nix all those questions?
03:26Never heard.
03:27Didn't see.
03:28No comment.
03:29We're getting 2021 and 2022 this summer.
03:32Yeah.
03:34Have you heard from Brian Flores in the last week?
03:36I haven't heard from him.
03:38Did you see his comments publicly?
03:39I haven't seen his comments publicly.
03:42Is there anything more that you'd like to add in the conversation to that?
03:44There's nothing more I'd like to add to that.
03:50He's on the stand.
03:51Right.
03:52Yeah, all you had to say is no comment.
03:54No comment would have moved him.
03:54But no, here.
03:56Vlad!
03:58What are you doing?
04:00No, wait.
04:01Don't tell me.
04:01Wait, wait.
04:02Vlad!
04:02Vlad!
04:03Vlad!
04:03Vlad!
04:04Don't tell me.
04:05You've had seven days.
04:06Vlad!
04:06Vlad!
04:07Vlad!
04:07Vlad!
04:08Vlad!
04:08I don't care.
04:09Yo.
04:09You're not playing the game, dude.
04:11Don't insult my intelligence.
04:12Vlad!
04:13Not insult my intelligence.
04:15I asked you a question.
04:16Have you...
04:17Don't tell me.
04:18Don't, don't tell me.
04:19That you haven't seen it and it's been a week.
04:21Vlad!
04:21You don't want to answer it.
04:22Vlad!
04:23Vlad!
04:23Vlad!
04:24Vlad!
04:24Vlad!
04:25Vlad!
04:25Vlad!
04:26Do you not...
04:27No comment doesn't mean we're not going to ask more questions.
04:30Don't tell me that.
04:30You're capping.
04:31Stop capping.
04:32Yes!
04:32Yes!
04:33The only thing that means...
04:33Yes!
04:34To avoid having to go deep into this conversation again.
04:36I don't need to go into this conversation.
04:38If you say no comment...
04:39Vlad!
04:40Vlad!
04:41Vlad!
04:41Vlad!
04:42Vlad!
04:42Vlad!
04:43You're missing...
04:43Vlad!
04:44I'm not trying to hit you.
04:44Stop!
04:45Don't insult my intelligence.
04:46I'm insulting you for this reason.
04:48Wait!
04:48Let me say...
04:49Let me ask you a question, Vlad.
04:50Vlad!
04:51If I ask you a question...
04:53And you say no comment...
04:56Okay?
04:56Are the questions going to stop?
04:59Yes!
04:59Because...
05:00No, they're not!
05:01No!
05:02Tobi!
05:02Please tell me why that works.
05:04If I tell you no comment, I'm not answering any more of these questions.
05:07Guess what's going to happen, Tobi?
05:08If he says no comment...
05:09Somebody else is going to try to ask the question in a different way.
05:12I got the...
05:13I got an extra question for him.
05:14I'm going to get to this for you guys.
05:15Just so...
05:16But...
05:16I think this is the end of the Flores thing.
05:18Okay.
05:19Because he was asked to...
05:20To ask about like...
05:21You know, some past things with Flores.
05:22I'll give that to you here in a second.
05:23But...
05:24To Vlad's point...
05:25I believe...
05:26I don't believe him that he didn't hear the comments.
05:28I don't believe him either!
05:29So why are you going to ask him?
05:31Because he's...
05:32Because he's trying...
05:32He's trying...
05:33He's trying to squash it.
05:34Okay, I understand.
05:35He's trying to squash it.
05:35You can squash it, but you don't got to...
05:36Why does Mike McDaniel tell you a QB job is neck-and-neck?
05:39That's not...
05:39Exactly!
05:40You don't have to...
05:40Vlad!
05:41Vlad!
05:41Here's the thing.
05:43Vlad!
05:43You're making a terrible...
05:44Vlad!
05:45You're making a terrible assumption here.
05:47Okay?
05:48Here's what the assumption is.
05:50You're telling me...
05:52That if he says no comment to the first one...
05:55Nobody else is going to ask any questions of similar...
05:58On the similar...
05:59You see what I'm saying?
06:01Do you want to hear his other question that he was asked?
06:03Sure.
06:04Alright.
06:04This was him being asked a past question.
06:08About Brian Flores.
06:09And why Brian Flores even started him in the first place his rookie year.
06:12The thing that did occur to me.
06:13Yeah.
06:14And that is...
06:16You mentioned in your comments to Dan...
06:18How he was highly critical of you through that process.
06:22And yet...
06:23There was...
06:24I think somewhat of a surprise...
06:26That he made the change when he did.
06:29Why do you think that change...
06:31To bench Brian and insert you happened?
06:34If he was so down on you?
06:38That's a great question.
06:41I'm not going to answer that truthfully.
06:44Right now.
06:45But...
06:46I think I know why.
06:47But I won't you know, I won't speculate or give anyone any speculations...
06:52On that.
06:53You know, whatever...
06:55You know, you want to create to think.
06:58Thank that.
06:58But other than that...
07:00I think that'll just stay here with the organization.
07:03Yeah.
07:04You think it's more important...
07:06For a quarterback to have support of his head coach than maybe...
07:10Possibly any other position?
07:12Yeah.
07:13100%.
07:14There's a quarterback driven league.
07:17I 100% think that.
07:19Without a good team, without a good quarterback.
07:22I don't think, I don't think you can do much in this league.
07:24Sure, you can have good defense.
07:26It's good, really good offenses in this league.
07:27You got to put up points and you got to find ways to do that.
07:29So...
07:30I definitely believe that for sure.
07:33There you go.
07:33Tua minutes ago to the media.
07:35The man wants to answer these questions.
07:36What are we doing here?
07:37Like, what are we doing?
07:39He wants to answer these questions.
07:40You know why?
07:40When you get 167 million, you feel more bolden.
07:44Of course.
07:44You feel more to talk what you feel like.
07:45You're an honest guy too.
07:46I mean, Tua...
07:47And he's honest.
07:47I'd say Tua is almost honest to a fault sometimes.
07:50I'm not upset.
07:50Listen, like I said, everyone's involved.
07:53Was he mean to Tua?
07:54Yes.
07:55But can Tua have toughened up?
07:57Absolutely.
07:58He could have.
07:59But...
08:00So, like I said, everyone involved was wrong.
08:04It turned out that Tua...
08:05I'm happy that he found Mike McDaniel.
08:07And Mike McDaniel got him out of his doldrums.
08:09And whatever bad situation that he was in mentally from what
08:13Brian Flores did, that happens.
08:16But you know what?
08:17That happens in all the sports.
08:19When a guy leaves...
08:20But I think you probably answered your own question, Vlad.
08:22Like, I understand being annoyed by it.
08:23But I think that, I bet you anything, Mike McDaniel's like,
08:27Hey man, cool with you going on Dan.
08:30They have a...
08:30They like Dan, you know.
08:32But we got to squash this.
08:34How are we going to squash this?
08:34Cool.
08:35But how are we going to do it?
08:36But don't tell me...
08:36But that's how they do it.
08:37Like, you know, like that's...
08:38But then, when you tell me that, you also then...
08:41If others act like...
08:42You already would say others would act a question...
08:44Well, what I would...
08:44I would say to that...
08:46You got to answer it a different way and kind of just say,
08:48well, wait a minute.
08:48You said you don't want to talk about this.
08:50And then...
08:51Yeah, I would...
08:51You just said, I would give you the honest...
08:54I can't give you the honest answer.
08:56What are we doing here?
08:57Well, this is what I would say to that though.
08:59If...
09:00And this is, you know, a tough place.
09:02Like Leroy said, you want to dismiss it.
09:03But I think on that part, then somebody from the media,
09:06if you really want to dig onto it, has to go and say,
09:09well, this is what he said.
09:10What's your reaction to that?
09:11You know, that's kind of...
09:12At that point, it is on the media to bring it up to him.
09:15If he's going to act like he hadn't heard it.
09:17If you're the man and you were like, look, I want to squash this.
09:21I said what I said.
09:22That's the end of it.
09:23I'm not answering any more questions about this situation.
09:27He did say that though.
09:27He said...
09:28That's it.
09:29So the minute...
09:29But wait, you think you're talking to adults?
09:32When you say that, they're still going to ask the questions.
09:35I'm...
09:35But you know what?
09:36I'm numero uno.
09:38I'm the face of the franchise.
09:39Don't you just said, right?
09:40But if...
09:41But if...
09:41But if...
09:42Wait, you're expecting Tua to be professional in this matter.
09:46Right?
09:46And say, if you don't want to answer no questions, but don't lie to us.
09:50Well, why can't Tua expect him to say...
09:52Or say, look, guys.
09:55Look, we're done with this.
09:57Let's just move on.
09:58And then somebody tries to find another way to answer the question.
10:02If you...
10:02You can set them up.
10:03You can set...
10:04You're the one that's being asked the question.
10:06And he's the quarterback.
10:07So if somebody asks a question, Tua doesn't answer.
10:10You know what's going to happen?
10:11Next question by Beasley or Perkins is going to be about the game or the...
10:16That's not true.
10:17That's not true.
10:18That's not true.
10:20Tobin, you don't think...
10:21That's not true.
10:22I mean, I gave you the order of the questions.
10:23That was...
10:24That was...
10:25The first one was what he was asked about.
10:27Somebody asked him about Mike White to start the press conference.
10:29I was like, boring.
10:31Anyway, they get to that part.
10:33I told...
10:33The exchange where he says nothing is what they've said.
10:36And then the follow-up was from...
10:38I think it was Hal Habib from the Palm Beach Post asking about, well, why do
10:40you think that he ever started you if he didn't like you?
10:43And then he wanted to answer the question and he said...
10:44He said, I don't want to truthfully answer that.
10:46Which probably means he thinks that somebody in the organization forced
10:48Brian Flores to start him.
10:50And that was it.
10:50That's the end.
10:51Which is, which is, guess what?
10:54Right.
10:54Which is why I said everybody involved is at fault.
10:57No, I don't have a problem with any of that, right?
11:00I don't have a problem with any of that.
11:02We all know that this would have never got that far those first two years
11:06if somebody didn't give the okay upstairs, right?
11:10But as far as being in the presser, dude, like you think if
11:20you told a reporter, hey, I don't want to talk about that, that
11:23nobody, everybody would respect your wishes and not ask you another
11:26question on it.
11:27You honestly think that?
11:29So you thinking, you think, you think that?
11:32You're a fool because it never happens, Vlad.
11:35Tobin, does it ever happen?
11:38I mean, like he said, if he's saying that he didn't hear the
11:42comments, I think the only other place that you could have gone,
11:44Leroy.
11:44No, that's not what I asked you.
11:46If somebody says, I don't want to...
11:48Leroy, I'm giving you my answer.
11:49Give me a second.
11:51What I'm saying is, if somebody wanted to go in another direction
11:54of saying, just because if I said, I didn't hear the comments, the
11:58only other thing a media member could do then is bring him the
12:01comments.
12:02I'm not even, I'm not even talking, I'm talking about in general, if
12:06as a player or a coach, Bill Belichick infamously, right?
12:13Has had these where he goes, I don't want to talk about that.
12:18I'm not going to talk about that, right?
12:20And they keep asking questions.
12:22So what I'm saying to Vlad is, Vlad think he's dealing with
12:25professionals and people that are going to honor the request.
12:28I'm saying if Tua said, I don't want to talk about that, they'll
12:31just find different ways to try to ask the same question.
12:35But I just gave you what they asked him.
12:37Right.
12:37They did try to figure out a different way and he said...
12:40It's over now.
12:40Like, that's the thing though.
12:41Like, I think the point is, is go into the press conference.
12:46Throw cold water on it.
12:47Let's move on.
12:48We got a season coming up.
12:49That's fine.
12:49But like, the reason why I get so upset about this is, y'all think
12:55that these reporters or whatever are going to respect your wishes
13:00as the guy answering the question.
13:01And while you're going to end up doing this, spending the next
13:0420 minutes saying, no, no, guys, I said, I'm not going to talk
13:07about, no, no.
13:08So why do we all of a sudden have to think that Tua got to be
13:12professional, but the people asking questions not going to
13:15respect his wishes?
13:16Hmm.
13:18Like, you can do it.
13:19If that's doing your job, fine.
13:21Then guess what?
13:22I'm going to answer the question to try to avoid other questions.
13:25That's factual.
13:26That's how it works.
13:28They don't ever stop asking the questions.
13:30They just ask them in different ways.
13:32Yeah.
13:32I mean, like, those are the only things I think related to it
13:35in the press conference that were there.
13:37But there was, if he said, if he would have said, look, I don't
13:40want to talk about Brian Flores anymore or whatever, that question
13:43would have still came up.
13:46Yeah.
13:46I mean, those were the questions.
13:48Right, but that's that's my point.
13:50But let's say you making this out.
13:51Like if he didn't want to answer any questions, just say so and
13:55there's no athletes.
13:57I've seen athletes do that.
13:59Yes, you seen athletes do that, right?
14:02And especially we've got a quarterback.
14:03If you say, I don't want to talk to you.
14:05Guess what?
14:05Those reporters don't want to lose any type of his only question.
14:08The only question, the only question that he's he's lying
14:11about is that he said he was asked, did Brian Flores reach out
14:18to you?
14:19He said no.
14:20And then he was asked, did you hear the comments?
14:22I did not hear the comments.
14:23Exactly.
14:24Do you want to say anything?
14:25I don't want to say, well, first of all, you would have had to
14:27known like only one of those is a lie.
14:29No, but you would have had to known.
14:30What would Brian Flores be reaching you out for reaching out to
14:34you for?
14:34No, he wouldn't know.
14:35But he did do the interview.
14:36Like he knows, right?
14:37So then why would Brian Flores be reaching out to you?
14:39I don't think it's crazy.
14:40Like you think Brian, like, I think what you would, I think what
14:42you're, you're probably your first instinct is right.
14:44Like, he's probably told by the media relations department.
14:47Hey, this was what flow said about it.
14:48Do I care?
14:49Does he even want to hear what 15 minutes of Brian Flores talking
14:52about him?
14:52Probably not.
14:55Okay.
14:57It was on all week and we all know in those practice facilities
15:01at Baptist health, what's on the TV is probably it's NFL Network
15:06NESPN, but does he want to keep, but that's, that's where the
15:09when you want to squash it, but you know what?
15:11Yes, squash it.
15:12But here's, here's the problem.
15:14Aren't you kind of quibbling though over like, no, I don't care
15:17about the comments and I didn't hear the comments.
15:19I'm I'm more upset that you say you didn't see the comments or
15:22hear the comments because guess what?
15:26And as an athlete, I get insulted when I say I don't want to
15:28talk about something.
15:29You keep asking me questions and I get that, but so what's the
15:32difference?
15:33Why can't both sides be accountable?
15:34He's trying to, he's trying to avoid that next step, which he's
15:39probably dealt with a number of times, but you know why?
15:42Because after that interview that came out with Leverton was
15:45last Monday.
15:46Everybody come to find out.
15:47We would not be hearing from Tua.
15:50My guess.
15:51My guess Vlad.
15:51I bet you Mike McDaniel asked him to squash it.
15:54I guess.
15:55Yeah, you know what?
15:56This could have been all nipped in the bud last week.
15:58Is Mike McDaniel sidestepped the hell out of it and Mike McDaniel
16:00doesn't sidestep anything.
16:01That's beautiful.
16:02This could have been all this could all been done last week, but
16:06when you find out that Tua is not going to speak again until the
16:08following week, what do you think they're going to be waiting the
16:11next seven days to ask you?
16:13Yeah, I guess so.
16:15Like what are we doing here?
16:16Like, come on, man.
16:17Everything's in context, but I do think it's over now.
16:20Like it should be.
16:22It's over.
16:23No, I think it's over.
16:24Leave it.
16:24Over on this Minnesota and Miami.
16:26The only way he's getting, he's not going to ask about it by the
16:28reporters again, not down here.
16:30Unless they play the Vikings.
16:31In the Super Bowl.
16:37Unless the Vikings Dolphins make the Super Bowl.
16:38It ain't happening.
16:39They don't play the Vikings.
16:41They don't.
16:41You guys play the Packers.
16:44That's why you're playing them in things.
16:46But yeah, that's the only reason.
16:47Well, it's over until they actually.