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Listening to Tua Tagovailoa’s comments after today’s practice where he addresses Sunday’s controversial comments.

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00:00Has Tua said anything, by the way?

00:01Oh, okay.

00:01I'm looking at David Fironas.

00:03It's today, right?

00:03That he talks?

00:04Yeah, well, he's like right now.

00:07Fironas says, Tua opens his press conference Wednesday

00:11by clearing the air and owning up to the mistake

00:13of his post-game comments.

00:15Sunday, Tua Tungavailoa admits he had some throws

00:19that were off Sunday against the Chargers

00:20as he dealt with hip and thumb injuries,

00:23but he's not using it as an excuse.

00:27Why did he say it again?

00:30No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:34Why would he say I have hip and thumb injuries

00:36if he's not using it as an excuse?

00:39I mean, but I hate that anyway with any professional athlete.

00:45They go, well, this is going on, but we're not using it as an excuse.

00:48But that is an excuse.

00:49Like, I hate that when, you know, the Panthers,

00:51who had the broken sternum?

00:53Wasn't it obvious that Kachuk was like, yeah,

00:55he was skating around there.

00:56He looked like a shell of himself, and they're like,

00:58well, we're not going to use this as an excuse.

01:00No, let us know that his sternum is broken

01:02because we're all noticing that he's skating around

01:05like a zombie out there.

01:07Isn't it an explanation more than excuse?

01:11I was going to say exclamation.

01:12Yeah, I think that's a...

01:14I have a...

01:15Tobin literally just sent me this as we're talking.

01:18About a minute and 20 of Tua answering some questions.

01:20You guys want to hear it?

01:21I think I can play the audio here.

01:23Yeah, I would like to hear it.

01:23Moments like that, how tough are those discussions

01:25when you have to have them, when there's...

01:27Like you said, there's a lot being said

01:28from all kinds of directions about what you said.

01:31How tough is it to sift through everything

01:32to make sure they get your point of what you meant

01:35and clear the air?

01:36Well, I think it's the intent, right?

01:39What was the intent?

01:40And I think just the emotions,

01:43the built-up emotions after the game,

01:45no one wants to lose,

01:46but just not allowing myself to stay in the moment

01:51and, you know, just kind of get outside of that.

01:56You know, you just have those kind of conversations.

01:58What is the intent?

02:00And then you kind of move from there.

02:03So we've had some conversations with that.

02:05In general, do you feel at this moment

02:07that overall team culture is still an issue?

02:11Joe Shag?

02:11I wouldn't say so.

02:13Having conversation with guys today,

02:15seeing the way guys are out there at practice,

02:18I wouldn't say so.

02:19What sort of reaction have you gotten

02:21in your conversations with teammates?

02:24Is that Halabib?

02:25Would you classify it as understanding

02:28or anger or frustration or what sort of...

02:32Well, I would say guys had questions about it, right?

02:36So you got to answer those questions.

02:38The why.

02:40And then some of the why's were like,

02:42man, at that time, I didn't think of it like that.

02:45You know, and so, as I said,

02:49that's something I got to be better with

02:51in protecting the team.

02:52And, you know, just can't do that.

02:57Will Manso tweeted out,

02:59credit to Tua for handling that well.

03:02Apologize and move on.

03:03He messed up.

03:04That's clear.

03:05Part of it was emotions of losing,

03:06but you can't do that.

03:08Teammates had to hear a better explanation.

03:11Will says, will it linger?

03:12I'm guessing learning from it

03:14and winning games would help.

03:17Solana, you have Tua's actual opening statement

03:19before the media started asking him questions?

03:22Yeah, here it is.

03:23All right.

03:24So, you know, I...

03:26As a leader of this team,

03:29of the Miami Dolphins,

03:30you know, the comments that had been said,

03:33I would say I've made a mistake

03:37and I'm owning up to that right now.

03:40You know, I've talked to guys on the team about it,

03:43talked to the leaders about it.

03:45And, you know, that...

03:47They know my heart.

03:49They know that the intent was right.

03:52But no matter the intent,

03:55you know, the intent can be right.

03:57But when things get misconstrued

04:00or however the media wants to portray it,

04:04you know, that leaves a void of silence

04:08and a lot of questions for the guys on our team.

04:10Now, being one in five,

04:13you know, we talk a lot about,

04:14all right, we got to get this going.

04:16We got to get this going.

04:17Come in excited to go to work.

04:20Forget about the noise.

04:21And I feel like I just added on to that

04:25for our guys.

04:27You know, for myself,

04:28I got to look at myself as the leader,

04:31protecting the team.

04:32I don't feel like I did that

04:35to the best of my abilities.

04:37I felt like I let the emotions of the game

04:39get to me after the game.

04:41And, you know, that's something

04:43that I can learn from as a leader on this team.

04:45And what happens in-house should be protected.

04:49And none of that should have gotten out.

04:51And so, I want to publicly apologize about that.

04:55I want to move forward.

04:56And now I want to focus on Cleveland Browns.

04:59All right.

04:59So, that was his opening statement.

05:01Josh, thanks for joining us.

05:02Have a good call in Tennessee.

05:04We appreciate it.

05:05I mean, I want to discuss this, obviously.

05:11So, you can stick around in the 4 o'clock hour as well.

05:14All right.

05:15What's your initial thought as...

05:17I'll ask Crowder first.

05:18What's your initial thought

05:19as to his opening statement there?

05:22He got his ass cussed out.

05:24He sounded like a little kid that got in trouble.

05:26And now, you know, I was wrong.

05:27I admit I was wrong.

05:28And yeah, he wasn't thinking about it.

05:30Post-game emotions.

05:31But the frustration is building.

05:34This comes from last year to year before and all that.

05:36So, I think he's getting tired of being treated like a little kid.

05:41And now I get a mistake.

05:42Now I get yelled at.

05:42I think he's getting fed up.

05:44The thing that kind of bothered me about it, obviously, on the surface, like, credit to

05:50him for apologizing like that.

05:52But he shoehorned in trying to blame the media again for taking the quotes out of context.

05:59I don't understand what he's doing there.

06:01And then he talks about, well, yes, Solana, he said something about how the media took it

06:05out of context afterwards.

06:06He absolutely said that.

06:07He said, however you want to spin it, the media.

06:10I would say this, I would say this, is he referencing the fact that it got clipped into

06:15this 15-second thing and the media nationally didn't give the context where he came out and

06:22said, I threw three interceptions.

06:23I played a poor game.

06:25I have to do better.

06:26Is that maybe where that little snippet is coming in from Tua about, hey, the media portraying

06:33it a certain way?

06:33I don't get it, though.

06:34All we heard over the past 48 hours was that Tua needs to shut up, take accountability,

06:41talk about himself at a press conference, and don't talk about anybody else.

06:45And I don't know, guys.

06:46I just heard that from Tua Tungabailoa.

06:48For the first time this season, I heard a guy walk up to the podium, address the media

06:54before a question is asked and say, yeah, that was on me.

06:57And I get what you're saying, Appel, where he says, however you guys want to spin it.

07:00But he's not wrong.

07:01Everything this guy says gets spun into something that comes with the territory.

07:07I'm not dismissing what he said.

07:08What he said was stupid.

07:09But for the first time this season, I just heard Tua step to the podium and say, bro,

07:14I effed up.

07:15I got to be better.

07:16And he gets credit for that.

07:18But I don't know that he comes and does this press conference if his head coach doesn't

07:22call him out yesterday, if all of his teammates are leaking out to other members of the media

07:25saying that they were unhappy.

07:27So I don't know if this was just the reaction.

07:29When you say you don't know it, I mean, maybe he does.

07:32I mean, you don't know.

07:33And that's fine.

07:34But like for me, everything because everything with him rings hollow to me because someone

07:38asked, I forget which one of Manso Shad and Hal Habib asked him, which I love.

07:43That's my favorite game during press conferences is not watching it, trying to figure out whose

07:46voice it is.

07:47He mentioned again about, oh, well, at practice, guys are staying late and they're doing all

07:51this stuff.

07:52And I'm like, that's what you said the entire offseason about how this culture is getting

07:56so much better.

07:56You guys said it this week and I'm sure at other times as well, like the fact that this

08:02is what's the narrative around the team after an entire offseason of saying, hey, the culture

08:08is getting better.

08:09We got rid of the problems.

08:11It's all the same stuff.

08:12And it is such a cluster with, I don't want to, it's a cluster bleep of things that are

08:20self-inflicted here.

08:22And again, surface level, credit the tool for coming out and apologizing.

08:26How else do you try to move past it other than what he just did?

08:30Right.

08:31Of course.

08:31He had to do that.

08:32And so he gets credit for that.

08:35I just, it blows my mind that, you know, you're talking about, this is year six for

08:41him.

08:41It's not his first year as a captain.

08:43It's not his first year as a starting quarterback in the league.

08:45And I'm having to learn how to appropriately take accountability and talk in press conferences

08:50in year six.

08:52I don't know, man.

08:53Like it's, it's just frustrating.

08:54And it's crazy that I'm, that I'm in this place now where seven weeks ago I was banging

09:01on my desk in here talking about how when Tua Tungvaluwa plays and he's healthy, they

09:05win.

09:06And I've done a complete 180 on the guy.

09:08And like, part of me feels bad for that.

09:10And I don't know what blinders I had on before, but like, I was so wrong about everything in

09:16relation to this team.

09:17I think it would have been funny if he came out there and he's like, Hey, have you guys

09:20seen Anthony Weaver's defense lately?

09:22Because you try to remain in a good mood and level-headed after a game.

09:30I think, I think Tua with the frustration of losing is going through like an identity

09:35crisis because he's not really a leader, but they're forcing to be a leader.

09:40And now he's getting asked about a bad team and he's not playing well and it's frustrating,

09:45but he's not a leader, but he's talking about people.

09:47Like, I think he's just, I think personally he's going through a lot.

09:51And that's why Cam Newton keeps saying, I don't like the talkative Tua.

09:54I think Tua is trying to figure out how to be a starting quarterback that has to answer

09:59for a bad team.

10:01Yeah.

10:01Well, this is kind of rare territory for him to be quite honest, because he's always

10:05looked better than the team has looked.

10:07And this is, this is, you know, the test of metal, right?

10:11And he didn't go well after that game.

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