Tua Tagovailoa told Sirius XM it's no longer time to be friendly in pursuit of ending a 24 year playoff drought. We discuss Tua's journey to this new level of confidence.
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00:00To a tongue of Iloa, he was he was asked about something on Sirius XM, NFL Radio,
00:08and two was asked about how the Dolphins are going to end this 24 year drought.
00:13No playoff wins in nearly a quarter century.
00:18And to a.
00:20He says this is no more time for the friendly stuff.
00:24Here is Uno.
00:25We're talking about Mike earlier about the 24 year playoff drought.
00:29What do you think this team needs to do to get over that hump,
00:31to get a win in the playoffs?
00:34It's cool to be friendly.
00:36All cool.
00:37I think for for us, I think that's the step we took further this year
00:42as a team, that I'm able to look at you as my teammate
00:45and I'm able to tell you what you need to work on.
00:47And you're able to tell me the same thing.
00:49And that's it.
00:49Big brother, little brother, little brother, big brother, whatever that looks.
00:52Accountability, accountability.
00:53But like, that's why you create those relationships off the field.
00:57So that, you know, where I'm coming from is it's all out of love.
01:01It's all out of respect.
01:02But if you're not helping me get to where we need to be as a team,
01:06we don't need you.
01:07And if I can't tell you that.
01:11Get out like that, that is plain and simple, like that, that's
01:14that's just how it is.
01:15That's the mindset.
01:16And I don't know if you guys were out there at practice, but everybody
01:20needs to feel that like everywhere.
01:22Like and so I think I think in my personal opinion, we have the guys
01:26that we need right now to do all of that.
01:28So and, you know, go in this 24 year drought and get us to a Super Bowl.
01:33Wow. Oh, whoa.
01:38You know, you know what's funny about all of this?
01:42What's that, man?
01:45I think because
01:48you see what your quarterback and your leader has gone through
01:51and where he is now.
01:54It means more coming from him.
01:57And it's not necessarily two of the quarterback,
02:02but two of the person needed to be resigned.
02:06Because everybody can't do.
02:09What he's done.
02:12And what he says.
02:15Because it comes from.
02:17You know where he came from and how he grew on this team.
02:21And so I think players respect that and players know.
02:27That is coming from a good place because he is a good person.
02:31And so, you know, when he says stuff like that.
02:35I believe it.
02:37I don't think it's just talk.
02:38I don't think it's just saying to people what they want to hear.
02:42Mm hmm.
02:43Is that BMS, dude?
02:45Oh, what's that?
02:46Big money swag.
02:48Oh, oh, oh, oh.
02:50Giorno, ask me a question.
02:52What do you say?
02:53If Eli Apple, Aaron Rodgers, Kristen Wilkins
02:57and Victor Oladipo get into a brawl, who do you want to win?
03:00Oh, that's easy.
03:01Well, the first two, you could throw them out.
03:03I want them to get pounded.
03:05Right. OK.
03:07One, just because two, because enough.
03:13But now you're tugging at the heartstrings.
03:16Mm hmm. Because Tovin know how much I love me some Victor Oladipo,
03:20who, by the way, just got inducted to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
03:24Congratulations to me.
03:25Congrats. You you know, you know what I feel about Victor Oladipo.
03:32But you also know what I feel about Kristen Wilkins.
03:35Yeah. Now, if they all got in a fight, Kristen Wilkins is going to win.
03:40Probably. While smiling.
03:42And that's going to piss him off even more.
03:44Unless he's got slow feet.
03:47Kristen Wilkins ain't got slow feet.
03:48Unless he's got slow feet.
03:50What? The man had 100 tackles running all over the football.
03:53And Victor Oladipo are kind of the same height.
03:55You know, maybe Vic's got that reach.
03:57Sticks that jab.
03:59Lean on him, something will break.
04:01Well, that's not nice.
04:03That's real. That's reality.
04:05I told you, you know, you know how I feel about.
04:07But one thing we know about Christian Wilkins is he'll fight dirty.
04:10That's what we know.
04:11Oh, he will.
04:12They'll fight dirty.
04:14I'm guessing it'll be Christian Wilkins and Victor Oladipo in the finals.
04:18Yeah, that makes sense.
04:20I would say.
04:22Aaron Rodgers is out first because he's going to talk.
04:26And I feel like Aaron Rodgers just bows out of the fight.
04:29Yeah. And I want Eli Apple to last past the first fight.
04:35Because I want him to get a false sense of security
04:37before you get to the point on.
04:41Where is Eli Apple?
04:42He's no longer in the secondary in Miami, right?
04:44He's a free agent.
04:45We looked this up yesterday.
04:46Oh, yeah.
04:47He he is.
04:48He is not currently employed in the NFL.
04:51Gotcha.
04:53Played a lot for the Dolphins last year.
04:54Number 33, huh?
04:57Yep.
04:58Got to get that jersey.
04:59Oh, someone's probably got it.
05:02So the same person who bought the Tehran Armstead.
05:05Yeah, someone's got it.
05:06Someone's got to have it hanging out there.
05:08I don't know.
05:09Well, the word listen to it, to it does, you know, get after his his team.
05:14You know, you're definitely seeing a more vocal guy.
05:16Right. And it practices.
05:18You're seeing a guy that will command the huddle, command the room.
05:22It is interesting, though, because like it's you go for him.
05:25You know, you remember two years in, like he didn't even want to like go for captain.
05:29Like he didn't even want to like raise his hand for it.
05:32But again, is from is coming from a place of.
05:37You know, if you want to be a leader, you kind of have to bring something
05:41to the table, right?
05:43And if everybody's treating you like everything was given to you,
05:48why would you accept something and have to try and lead
05:52when everybody has that impression of you?
05:55Right. So now we're looking at two.
05:58And we like, yo, this dude earned it, right?
06:01Wherever it ends up, you know, that where he is right now, he earned it.
06:05He worked for it. He worked his butt off.
06:08And he's earned the respect of everybody in that locker room.
06:12So now anything he says.
06:15People listen, and it comes from a different place.
06:19And I think that's the most important thing there is that he has.
06:25You know, grown himself to the point where he can be a leader and.
06:30You hear what he said in that.
06:33That that that that response right there.
06:38I can't ever remember to a talking like that.
06:40Me neither. And so, you know, it's.
06:46You know, it's it's good to hear.
06:49But, you know, it's not something that was forced on him.
06:53No, it seems genuine for sure. Right.
06:55And I think that's that's the most important thing that.
07:01Your leader is genuine, right?
07:04And so I think.
07:07He can go in that huddle and ask for a little bit extra.
07:10He can go in that huddle and demand, you know, hey, guys,
07:13I need a little more time where maybe he didn't feel he could do that before.
07:18Big money swag, dude.
07:19It's not see. And that's why it's big money.
07:23And I think one of the things that he tried to avoid
07:28was making it about money.
07:30You think if he didn't get his contract, he'd still be in there the same way?
07:34I do. But I think it helps.
07:36I don't think it I don't think it hurts.
07:37Well, it helps that he can look at his team and say, I'm going to be here.
07:41Yep. You with me or not?
07:43Yeah, absolutely. That's that's a whole not confidence.
07:46I think that the organization does stand for a confidence behind him.
07:49So I do think there is something to it, which which is amazing
07:51because he's been on the other.
07:52He's been on the extreme other side of that,
07:54the organization being rats up a ship on him, which is amazing.
07:57That why don't teams see this?
08:01I don't even see his interaction with other teammates and realize that
08:06this guy, regardless of what we think of him, can lead our team.
08:10I'm all in.
08:14I'm all in.
08:16So what does that mean?
08:18Means a conda.
08:21What? Well, you know what it means.
08:24You guys get it. You guys get it.
08:26That's it.
08:28CD lamb. Mary had a little lamb.
08:30I mean, I'm all in.
08:32Will they get contracts? Probably not.
08:34But I am all in.
08:36I am so in right now.
08:37Called it, you know, I am in.
08:41So strange, strange guy, man.