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.