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Tua Has The All Time Biggest Chip On His Shoulder - Article

The title of the article alone tells me this person has no clue about Tua as a person.

Tua’s priorities are faith, family, then football. He is extremely humble.

He doesn’t walk around angry or with a chip on his shoulder. That isn’t how he gets his fuel.

That article is plain nonsense.
 
Fin-Loco said:
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Tua Tagovailoa has the all time biggest chip on his shoulder

The beginning of training camp has quite literally gotten underway for the Dolphins but a frenzy on what's going to happen with Tua Tagovailoa came Monday.
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"When this happened, all of the Dolphins Twitter and a decent part of just regular NFL Twitter started losing their collective minds. All the pro-Watson stand and the Tua truthers ran after each other like it was Avenger’s and Thanos’s army charging after each other. In the comment section, you can tell me which character is who.


I understand that another blog/article about the most tiring situation that has ever hit the Dolphins outside of maybe Bullygate is probably the last thing you need. But I think I have reached my breaking with all of this stuff and it’s far from over.

We’re not going to get any real information from any of the big-wigs of the NFL information superhighway until if and when something goes down. I understand it might be fun to pontificate about what the Dolphins are and should do but I’m just over it. It’s like having that friend that just tells the same stories all the time. You know they don’t go anywhere or have any real point to them and you just want nothing to do with them.

With all these shenanigans continuing to transpire I just had a moment to reflect for a second. During that reflection, I came to the conclusion that no matter where Tua Tagovailoa is playing this coming season that he has the biggest chip on his shoulder heading into a season of any player of all time. I’m being somewhat hyperbolic here because there has to be someone I’m missing who had a bigger chip on their shoulder. But I honestly can’t think of a player who had so many folks against him going into a season after playing so little as a rookie.


I’ll go down all the stuff that was going against Tagovailoa from last year, not like you haven’t heard it all before. He didn’t get to participate in a regular year due to Covid, a big chunk of the time that he did have was rehabbing instead of the little football activities he could(take that Herbert guys), three rookies on the offensive line, because of that offensive line the receivers could only get paper-thin separation, and the receivers he did have were mostly a bunch of #4 receivers at best.

With all that, he went 6-3 as a starter, 5-3 if you don’t want to count the game against the Raiders game. He did that while putting up decent stats. Not out of this world stats, but not Giovanni Carmazzi stats either.

And all he gets for those nine games, with all those reasons( not excuses there is a difference) is everyone and anyone calling for him to be basically kicked out of the world.

He has a large number of fans that can’t get it out of their head that Justin Herbert might be awesome for years to come. Guess what folks, both Tua and Herbert could be really good. It is has happened before where multiple quarterbacks have been good from the same draft. Tua has to hear day after day from the same talking heads talk about how he’s the weak link and that the Dolphins need to move off from him because of how he didn’t steal the show every week last year. Finally, you have his coach and the team he plays for not simply coming out and saying we’re not trading for anybody and Tua is the guy for the upcoming season regardless of what you’ve heard. It makes all the little nuggets of information that Flores isn’t all in on Tua and that he preferred Herbert from the get-go a little bit more probable.

So Tua has to deal with all of that while he goes through his first real training camp. I’m not saying we should be drying our eyes because a professional athlete has to deal with some really annoying stuff as if we wouldn’t switch lives with him and deal with what he’s dealing with while also getting paid what he’s getting paid. I’d switch immediately if I had the reality stone. But reality is often disappointing and that’s sadly not the reality I live in. I’m saying it sucks that he has to deal with it and sucks for us to have to see each and every day.

With the size of the biggest Dorito on Tua’s shoulder, this 2021 season could be the ultimate Stone Cold double bird of a season that anyone has ever put together. He has the opportunity to shut up so many people if goes out there hits the ground running and wins games. Will that happen? I don’t know. I can’t even tell you if he’ll be on the team by the end of the week. All I can tell you is that I’m comfortable saying that Tua probably has had and continues to have to deal with most garbage from so many that I can recall. Have a happy first day of training camp, if you could."
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This guy’s writing though…
 
TuaClockSomewhere said:
This has been “debunked” numerous times. Not sure where this came from or why it’s still being stated as having any credence.

It also doesn’t make sense given who Flores is and the traits he places a premium on.
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When was it debunked? I’m not sure it’s even possible to debunk something like that.

I also would add that I don’t think we have any idea what traits he looks for in a QB, or that Tua has those traits more so than Herbert.
 
That writer claims to know what is going on inside Tua's head.
Here, I thought that perhaps the writer had spoken with Tua and had heard Tua say that Tua had a chip on Tua's shoulder.
Instead, he wrote an article about what he supposes must be going on inside Tua's head, without ever talking to Tua.
It is an opinion article based on nothing.
I'm sorry, I reeeally appreciate posters sharing articles. I just wish that the article's title, in this case what Tua's true emotions are, could be validated by actual comments or evidence, rather than assumption.
 
eMCee85 said:
Yeah I'm anxious to see how the line plays as well. We can't have a bad o line forever right? I mean, eventually something has to change:shrug:
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Eventually, but we have been seeing nothing but below average play from the Dolphins OL for well over a decade. Hopefully 2021 will be the year the OL finally develops into at least a solid average line.
 
AdamD13 said:
The title of the article alone tells me this person has no clue about Tua as a person.

Tua’s priorities are faith, family, then football. He is extremely humble.

He doesn’t walk around angry or with a chip on his shoulder. That isn’t how he gets his fuel.

That article is plain nonsense.
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I don't disagree about the article, but a person can be all those things, and still derive motivation from naysayers, as well as find great satisfaction in proving then wrong.

Do you know TT personally, or just giving opinion?

I ask, because the way you make it sound, like cold, hard, factual, first person info, is that you have some window of insight that others do not.
 
Mach2 said:
I don't disagree about the article, but a person can be all those things, and still derive motivation from naysayers, as well as find great satisfaction in proving then wrong.

Do you know TT personally, or just giving opinion?

I ask, because the way you make it sound, like cold, hard, factual, first person info, is that you have some window of insight that others do not.
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I have seen enough of his interviews that go beyond football discussing his values and purpose.

How about showing me ONE interview where he comes across as having a chip on his shoulder, angry about what is said about him, driven by naysayers, caught up in the drama about what others say and I will be open to changing my mind.

One, just one, that gives any inclination that naysayers are what motivates him.

In a somewhat recent interview with his personal trainer, Nick Hicks, he was posed the question along the lines of what Tua thinks about the talking heads in the media and he replied Tua doesn’t pay any attention, he doesn’t spend time on social media, he is too busy focusing on the things he can control.
 
I think you may have a different interpretation of "chip on his shoulder" than do I, or the hack that wrote the story, for that matter.

As far as his trainer, would you expect he would say otherwise, regardless of reality?

It's cool. Everyone doesn't see things the same way. I'm not questioning his values whatsoever. I'm only saying they don't prohibit him from taking offense at what some may be saying, and find it satisfying to show they they are wrong.

The two are not mutually exclusive in any way as far as I'm concerned.

I prefer he has a bit of a chip TBH. Don't you?
 
Impossible for Tua not to have a chip on his shoulder. You think we are tired of hearing about Watson? What do you think Tua feels? You don't think that is motivation to go out and practice harder than without?
 
Manufactured BS. I may be totally wrong but I don't think that Deshaun Watson was ever coming to Miami and the media have just tried to manufacture a story that Tua is on his way out via a trade to Houston.
Miami invested a high Draft pick in Tua. We have now got more weapons for him in Waddle and Fuller. Let's see how he goes.
 
Considering the possibility that Watson still gets suspended for the year... and that this fact would drive his cost down, we are smart to be in the conversation.

I've NEVER considered obtaining Watson to be likely, but I didn't think we'd move Tunsil for three picks either. Smart teams exercise due diligence in these things. If it turned out that the cost of Watson was 2 #1s and a #3 (or something like that)... and that he was going to miss the entire season... I'd be on that in a heartbeat. We could easily recoup that next year when we have a better idea of whether Tua stays or goes...

It's a hedge... I don't see it as a play for THIS year. Yes, things would have to fall just right... but they could. Stranger things have happened.
 
Mach2 said:
I think you may have a different interpretation of "chip on his shoulder" than do I, or the hack that wrote the story, for that matter.

As far as his trainer, would you expect he would say otherwise, regardless of reality?

It's cool. Everyone doesn't see things the same way. I'm not questioning his values whatsoever. I'm only saying they don't prohibit him from taking offense at what some may be saying, and find it satisfying to show they they are wrong.

The two are not mutually exclusive in any way as far as I'm concerned.

I prefer he has a bit of a chip TBH. Don't you?
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The only chip, if you want to call it that, I see with Tua comes from within, not from outside noise. His chip is to become the best version of himself.

I have seen several interviews with Nick Hicks and he comes across as a straight shooter and genuine to me.

Trent Dilfer said all the same things about Tua. One of Dilfers rules was no social media to focus on training and studying. It allowed Tua to have a makeshift pro day before the draft.


Is it really far fetched Tua would employ the same practices this off-season, no social media, 5-6 hours working out a day, studying tape and playbook, that allowed Tua to put on a virtual pro day 6 months after his hip was dislodged from its socket that included major surgery?

People are fueled by different things. For some people it is external motivation like Aaron Rodgers and Michael Jordan who appear to use slights real or imagined to light their fire.

For others, like Tua, their fuel comes from within stemming from their commitment to a Higher Power to be the best version of themselves, develop their gifts so they can share those with others. It might also come from feeling a responsibility to his family and community to be a radiant exemplar.

Keep in mind Tua grew up in a completely different culture than mainland America. His culture was about faith, family, community…it wasn’t about showing up other people and proving them wrong, posting on social to get likes, etc.

Unless I see Tua’s words and behavior change, I am clear on my beliefs where his motivation comes from.

And I am also cool that yourself and others might see Tua differently.
 
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