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Cult of Tua victory celebration thread (also general Tua updates)

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Tua retweeted this today, only one part matters
 
This is of course from the man who 'had never heard of anyone in Miami who likes Tua' but there is information about Grier and the draft process here:

www.si.com

MMQB: How Bengals, Dolphins and Chargers Vetted New QBs

How a new crop of franchise QBs ended up on their respective teams. Plus, Packers GM Brian Gutekunsk explains the Jordan Love pick, we say goodbye to Joe Staley and wrap up draft week.
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Over time, Grier saw what he needed to see, and one coach who knows Flores well noticed how over the year he was becoming more “of an RPO guy”—something that was proven out with the move from the Patriots-rooted Chad O’Shea to new offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, who brings a ton of college background. The thinking, at the time of Gailey’s hiring, was that a simpler offense would be better for a young quarterback.

Now, it’s impossible to ignore that he’s there for a quarterback who ran the RPO game better than anyone in college football the last two years.

Nor is it hard to put together what Grier gathered on his recon mission, with the sort of powerful leaders that Flores wants for his locker room.

“It’s how he carried himself,” Grier said. “And how everyone talked about him. Our guys did a lot of work on him, going back to high school. We felt like he had a lot of intangibles that we like, that you look for in leaders of programs. We would spend time talking to some of the other Alabama players, and they just raved about him as a person.

“And again, at the end of the day, it’s a challenge that’s going to determine if he's good enough to be your franchise quarterback. But a lot of other intangibles are there, and that's what got us excited.”

All of that led to Thursday around 9 p.m. ET, when Grier told a scouting coordinator of his to call the pick into the league. Less than a minute later, the email popped up on his screen to confirm the pick: Tua Tagovailoa, QB Alabama. By then, there was no more need to even swallow hard.

He’d explored trading up. He’d done his homework on the teams drafting ahead of him. He had a plan if there was action at No. 2, 3 or 4. But really, it was simple at that point: “If Tua was there, we were going to take him,” he explained. And thanks in part to people like me, who were thrown off, that’s just the way it happened, with Grier fairly calm about it throughout.

“You've done so much work on everything, so you feel good about everything,” Grier said. “It's weird. It was a sense of calmness. We've done all our work, we felt good about our process, so we identified Tua as a guy that we wanted to take. When he was there, we felt very good about it. There was no apprehension or nervousness, we're very excited to get a player we targeted at this spot. Yeah, it's a key position. Everyone understands you got to have one to win in this league, and we felt good about Tua.

“There's no nervousness or anything. We just thought he was the right guy.”
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There is a lot more on the MMQB site.
 
Not an ESPN fan but good conversation here on our pick. Also heard he asked for all the Offensive players numbers to call and get to know them. :up:

 
That article is such BS... Miami didn't know until a week ago they would take Tua? LOL... we all remember the "Bungle for Borrows" shirts....
 
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