This might’ve been awkward for Tua Tagovailoa. He’s at a Miami Dolphins joint observe with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the place, on the opposite aspect, is a quarterback the group needed unhealthy sufficient to violate NFL guidelines in pursuit.
But Tagovailoa didn’t view it as such when his workforce had its first of two joint classes with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers at their observe discipline in Tampa on Wednesday.
Instead, the Dolphins signal-caller noticed a possibility to select the mind of the longer term Hall of Famer who has seven Super Bowl rings and plenty of deem the best of all time.
“Twenty-three years playing. That’s a long time,” stated Tagovailoa, coming into his third NFL season. “That’s a lot of knowledge, so I was asking him some things, and he gave me some good insight on it.”
What type of issues?
“I’m going to keep that between me and Tom.”
It was good that Tagovailoa heard no matter he picked up from Brady straight from the person himself, as a result of coach Mike McDaniel didn’t need his quarterback watching the opposite discipline the place Brady was going through the Dolphins protection.
“I would actually be very disappointed if he did,” McDaniel stated. “He’d most likely be taking a sack if he was watching as a result of there’ll be simultaneous performs. … Contrary to well-liked perception, Tua doesn’t play one snap in opposition to Tom Brady.
“It’s more about going against a different defense that, not just schematically, but how they play football with different techniques that they emphasize. Those things are a big part of the NFL game. You’re adjusting every week, so those subtle difference are huge differences.”
But Tagovailoa already is aware of sufficient about Brady’s sport to concentrate on what impresses him, along with his composure within the pocket topping the listing.
“Nothing really rattles him,” Tagovailoa stated. “When you got a guy in your face, subtle movements and throwing the ball. I would say those are top-trait qualities in a really great quarterback with him, [Russell Wilson], Aaron Rodgers, all those big-time guys.”
While the Dolphins protection on Wednesday was capable of rattle Brady in spurts, Tagovailoa had a largely environment friendly day in opposition to a vaunted Buccaneers protection. He had a number of connections to new star receiver Tyreek Hill for sizable good points, discovered Jaylen Waddle, Cedrick Wilson Jr. and rookie Erik Ezukanma every no less than as soon as and didn’t make any main errors.
If any, he held on to the ball too lengthy for a protection sack. Once, he stumbled rolling to his proper, and it induced him to throw behind Hill, permitting Tampa security Antoine Winfield to interrupt up the go. Tagovailoa additionally got here up empty in situational drives, though one obvious landing go to River Cracraft was introduced again.
His efforts got here in opposition to completely different seems to be than he had confronted by two weeks of coaching camp in Miami.
“We get a lot of press-man. Tampa has a lot of off-man, off-zone, and they have a fair amount of disguises with what they do,” Tagovailoa stated.
It didn’t hassle Tagovailoa that findings of an impartial investigation into the Dolphins tampering with Brady revealed on Aug. 2 that Miami had unlawful communication with the all-time passer each in 2019, when Brady was a member of the New England Patriots and Tagovailoa was nonetheless in school at Alabama, and 2021, with Brady on the Buccaneers and Tagovailoa in his second season with the Dolphins.
“They picked me,” Tagovailoa merely put it. “It’s 2022. I’m still here. To me, that’s all noise at this point.”
McDaniel, too, downplayed the influence the tampering penalty, which docked the Dolphins of a 2023 first-round decide and 2024 third-round choice whereas fining proprietor Steve Ross $1.5 million.
“What happened?” he replied wittily to a query about it. “For me, nothing happened. Everyone else is the one making it awkward. Doesn’t occupy a single iota of space with anybody we have. It’s hard enough to be good in this league. As the Miami Dolphins, all of our energy is very coordinated and only has to do with us getting better.”
Before Wednesday’s observe, the Dolphins had an off day in Tampa and a few of the gamers celebrated the birthdays of tight finish Durham Smythe and linebacker Duke Riley between a stroll by a neighborhood mall and dinner at Ocean Prime. Tagovailoa stated he picked up a tab of greater than $1,000.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com