Miami Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa responds to former Dolphins player Xavien Howard comments of him going into panic mode taking away his first read. He then admits it's tough to sleep after a stinker like that...
00:00Anyway, Frank Smith, Dolphins offense coordinator, he said what Zavian Howard said about Tua, not true.
00:06Well, Tua was asked about Zavian Howard's comments.
00:08You got this, Vlad?
00:09Here was Tua discussing Zavian Howard saying that the Dolphins quarterback panicked after they took away his first option.
00:18Another thing that gave a lot of traction was that Zavian Howard, your former teammate, saying once we take away his first read, I feel like it's panic mode after that.
00:26Do you have any reaction to your former teammate playing against him this time saying that?
00:29Yeah, well, I got to talk to him after the game.
00:32Still got a lot of respect for him.
00:34I think if you look at the games where I have performed and done well, it's when I'm also getting off of my first read and, you know, progressing or going through the progressions, kind of like what my feed is, you know, telling me.
00:49So playing in that sense.
00:51You said you got a chance to talk to him.
00:54What was that conversation like?
00:55Was it just to kind of clear the air or see where he was coming from?
00:58Or what was that like?
01:00No, it was just saying hi to an old friend.
01:02I mean, I got to see him after the game.
01:04Got to talk to him a little bit during the game as well.
01:06But that's all it was.
01:08Those comments you're saying.
01:09No, I didn't even know he made those comments.
01:12All right.
01:13There you go.
01:14Tua yesterday speaking to the media.
01:17I feel like it's panic mode after that.
01:19There's a huge amount.
01:21There's a huge amount of our content that people can.
01:23It's like we're looping here.
01:26Anyway, what do you make of that, Leroy?
01:28Tua kind of no-selling it from Zavian Howard.
01:30Tua knows his process.
01:37You know what I mean?
01:38And keep in mind, sometimes for a quarterback it may look that way.
01:43But if he's not, he's not.
01:45Like, we don't know what his progression is.
01:48So it's kind of hard for another guy to tell him what his process is.
01:57However, you did throw a pick to a traffic hole.
02:02And we ain't going to go through that again.
02:05No, we don't have to.
02:06But still.
02:08He did say that after the loss, he said it was tough to sleep.
02:12Here's some more of Tua.
02:12I think it's tough.
02:14But I find after those kind of games, it's tough to sleep.
02:20Because there's a lot of the what-ifs and I wish.
02:23Or maybe if I did this versus that.
02:28But I would say the decompressing is, I think, after those kind of games, it's tough.
02:40Yo, who is that?
02:42Are you typing something, Leroy?
02:43Yeah.
02:44Oh, okay.
02:45I thought that was-
02:46Big is thinking it's hard.
02:47And I turned the mic off.
02:49I'm like, what is that?
02:50I was super confused.
02:51Because I thought it was just because, you know, in the Dolphins press conferences, you
02:53could hear somebody typing all the time.
02:57No.
02:57So I thought it was-
02:59I thought it was-
03:00That was me.
03:01I take full.
03:02Well, thank you.
03:02It's all good.
03:03I thought it was me, too.
03:04And then I thought that it could be the recording.
03:06Because we often do hear that.
03:07I thought so, too.
03:08But it's been bothering me for, like, a while.
03:11Well, listen.
03:12Listen, Tobin knows what I'm dealing with.
03:15Yes, I do.
03:16And you better respond quickly.
03:18Accordingly.
03:19Yeah, accordingly.
03:20Quickly and accordingly.
03:21So we're going to keep that in-house.
03:24You ever have trouble sleeping after a game, or are you too tired?
03:31The best night to sleep I've gotten after games was when I got taken to the hospital.
03:35Oh, geez.
03:37Okay.
03:41It's hard here.
03:44And I tell you guys this all the time.
03:47Football is the only negative-reinforced sport.
03:51And so if you lose a game, the game just keeps running in through your mind of what you could have done.
04:03If you made a mistake, it just keeps running in your mind.
04:06And it's hard to move on from it sometimes.
04:13Because you feel like you cost your team.
04:15And, you know, as I got older, I started accepting the fact that everybody makes mistakes, keep yours to a minimum, but work your tail off, and everybody will appreciate that.
04:29But as a young person, because, look, they say, son, if you keep playing like that, you ain't going to have a job.
04:36Like, that's the kind of threats you get.
04:38But, like, it's crazy.
04:41Like, that doesn't happen to any other sports.
04:43They need so badly just – I don't know, dude.
04:46They need – it doesn't even have to be a bomb.
04:48It just needs Devon H.M. breaking a run.
04:51This team needs that crowd to be fired up, like, right off the bat so badly.
04:55Part of the reason why – part of the – here's part of the problem.
05:02Part of the problem is that the defense is dictating what you do.
05:10You're not dictating what the defense does.
05:13And I'll give you a perfect example.
05:16On any play, I can exploit one player on the defense, right?
05:24I'll go back to the – remember the Canes game and the Notre Dame game where how did we affect that linebacker?
05:32We flagged something in front of him.
05:33He looked at that tight and went over his head.
05:36You can do that anywhere on the field, right?
05:40And so I believe that part of the reason why they haven't been able to do it is because they just made the assumption they're taking all the deep stuff away from us, so we're going to do this.
05:55You're reacting to them.
05:58You need to find something, whatever that is, to make them react to you.
06:03So if you run the ball well, if A-Chan is running the ball, if Ali Gordon is running the ball, if all these guys are running the ball well, then guess what?
06:11Safety's got to creep up.
06:12Everybody has to creep up.
06:14Then you go to your play action, right?
06:16Like you have to be the initiator.
06:19You have to be the guy who's making them adjust to you.
06:23And I think a lot of times you watch games, you see the same old plays, and we're not affecting what they do at all.
06:31And that's what adjustments in football is.
06:35Hey, let's make some adjustments to what they're doing in these situations, but let's also make them adjust to what we're doing, whether it's motion, whether it's trips to one side, whether it's giving the appearance of that little bubble screen, right, and then running something else.
06:54Like there's so many different things that you can do to kind of get those safeties into the mix a little bit, and then you pop them over the top, versus like they sit two safeties back.
07:08Sometimes their corner's way off the ball, and you don't affect them at all.
07:14Oh, man.
07:15I'm stressed about this Sunday.
07:17I'm not stressed.
07:18I'm stressed.
07:18You know what I am?
07:20Can I just tell you what I am?
07:22When you know somebody has the ability to do all the things that I'm talking about, and it's not being done for whatever reason, I'm frustrated and disappointed.
07:38Because it doesn't look right.
07:42I remember all the offenses that he's been a part of, right, and I know what that looked like, and I know the creativeness and how they expose certain players on the defense, and I don't understand why.
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