We hear from Mike McDaniel this morning with an update on the QB Tua Tagovailoa... the human and his future. With no clear indication if or when Tua will return, who should the Fins look to sign as a backup QB? Is Skylar Thompson ready to take the helm?
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00:00is Mike McDaniel. Uh, he spoke to the media this morning. Uh, this is what Mike McDaniel
00:05told them. Obviously this is a lot of concern for his guy to, uh, and, uh, you want an interesting
00:11thing that Mike McDaniel does do other coaches do this. I've never heard. Do you, do you know
00:14that he refers to his players as his teammates? Yes. I saw that. That's an interesting thing.
00:18I've been noticing that. Uh, not my players. He calls them my teammates. No, he's, he's,
00:23he's unique to that. Yeah. That's kind of cool. Well, that's, that's one way of clarifying whether
00:28we all in this together, right? You know? Yeah. I mean, I'm sure the players, you know,
00:34appreciate the hell out of it. He didn't take his teammates girl. That's true. He did do that
00:39back in the arena league. Here is the Mike McDaniel, uh, asked about what he told to, uh,
00:45yesterday. I said, you, uh, put on the channel three, they're glad we're good to go. I said,
00:52uh, you're, uh, I, um, I, I, yeah. Um, I, I told him he's, uh,
01:10the starting quarterback of his family and that, um, to, to go in the locker room,
01:19take a deep breath. Um, and I'll see you soon. Oh man. He's like,
01:30he's pretty shook up. He's just as shook up as everybody else. Right?
01:34Like, yeah, you can notice that. I thought, you know what I would say this.
01:39You appreciate, because he didn't talk about the team situation at all. He just talked about
01:49the situation of Tua and, you know, making sure Tua is in the right frame of mind. So,
01:57um, appreciate that even more. Yeah. I think the guy, cause he knows his guy and he knows
02:02this guy's going to be thinking immediately how fast can I get back and you should just,
02:06you know, get that, like literally get the head, take all the time he needs. But, uh, here he was
02:12asked about, uh, the career status of Tua. And, uh, this is what he had to say on that
02:18retirement consideration being for him. I think it would be, I think it would be, um,
02:31so, so wrong of me to, to even sniff that subject. And it's more in line of actually caring
02:43about the, the human being. And, you know, that's something that, that entirely you're
02:50talking about his career, right? Um, his career is his, you know, and, um, that that's something
02:58that I think I just really, really, really wish I totally understand it and it's not misplaced.
03:07I totally get how that's where people want to go to. I just wish that people would for a second
03:14hear what I'm saying, that bringing up his future is not in the best interest of him. So, you know,
03:21I'm going to plead with everybody that, you know, that, um, does genuinely care that that should be
03:30the last thing on your mind because you don't like, what do you think that's if, if, if I would
03:37answer that question, I'd be like, all right, this is, this is my thoughts on his career.
03:43And he read it. Um, if he felt, if he agreed with it or he disagreed with it, either way,
03:50I've just made him worse. So I, I, I'm not taking this opportunity to just, um,
03:58not, you know, I, I, I don't think it's appropriate, um, simply because of my care and regard. And I
04:04don't think, uh, those types of conversations when you're talking about somebody, somebody's
04:10career, um, I think it, it probably is, um, only fair that their career should be decided by them.
04:16You know, there you go. Um, was he doing a video conference this morning? Yes. Yeah.
04:27Yeah. He's doing a zoom. All right. So, um, I like he's, he's 100% correct. Yeah. And I just
04:35like, oh, and my whole thought was all the other stuff is nonsense. He's not healthy right now.
04:43So until he's healthy, having conversations about what you're going to do when, or if,
04:49or a move point and everybody's chiming in on it and he might be games, right. Is it responsible?
04:57It is because he hasn't been cleared to play and he's not healthy.
05:02You ready to get your fancy tickled? I said that weird. I'm sorry.
05:09Listen, it's been a rough day. Yeah. Don't make it worse.
05:16Don't make it worse. I'll make it worse. I had to give him a little side eye. We do it over here.