Tua Tagovailoa didn't hold back when asked to describe the difference between having a coach who believes in him, compared with one who didn't.
Tua Tagovailoa drops a pass in the bucket to River Cracraft for a TD didn't hold back when asked to describe the difference between having a coach who believes in him, compared with one who didn't.quarterback has flourished in two seasons under Mike McDaniel, so much so that Tagovailoa was rewarded this offseason with a four-year, $212.4 million extension. He had a far different experience under Brian Flores, his coach for the first two seasons of his career.
"And then you hear it, no matter what it is, the good or the bad, you hear it more and more, you start to believe that. I don't care who you are. You could be the president of the United States, you have a terrible person telling you things that you don't want to hear or probably shouldn't be hearing, you're going to start believing that about yourself. And so that's what sort of ended up happening.
"I think for me, especially right now, I'm so laser focused into what this locker room needs and this particular set of circumstances that it's hard for me to kind of really appropriately assess that It feels like, I think it almost -- I'm not spending much time patting myself on the back for much," McDaniel said Monday.
Tagovailoa has largely declined to comment on the nature of his relationship with Flores since the former head coach was fired in January 2022. Three months after Flores was fired, the quarterback was asked specifically what he would consider their relationship to be.
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