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Tua Tagovailoa speaks candidly on difficult experience with former Dolphins coach Brian Flores

Fresh off a new four-year, $212.4 million deal, Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is heading into the 2024 season with a lot of confidence. Some of that confidence is spreading into how he speaks about his experience in the NFL, including under former Dolphins coach Brian Flores.

On Monday, the fifth-year quarterback opened up about about training under with his former coach in an interview with the Dan Le Batard Show. Tagovailoa was incredibly candid when explaining the difference between Flores, his former coach, and his current coach Mike McDaniel.

"To put it in simplest terms," Tagovailoa said, "if you woke up every morning and I told you, ‘You suck at what you did, that you don’t belong doing what you do, that you shouldn’t be here, that this guy should be here, that you haven’t earned this.