'GMFB' reacts to Tua Tagovailoa opening up about being coached by Brian Flores and Mike McDaniel

'GMFB' reacts to Tua Tagovailoa opening up about being coached by Brian Flores and Mike McDaniel

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[austinburnett]

She hit the nail on the head! The issue isn’t that Tua can’t handle tough coaching. Tua is actually used to tough coaching from his dad & Saban. The issue was Flores was degrading him, not coaching him. Props to Tua for hanging in there and growing to this point!

[MARYBLEUZ]

Flores ruined rook Austin Jackson too! Now, he's one of Tuas main protectors! This is what McDaniel does. He builds players! In Miami we have no love loss for Flores.!!

[fingerbangbanggaming]

What about telling a player "You don't belong here" is just 'tough' coaching. I think they missed the underlying point, which has been widely reported now. Flores did not want to draft Tua, never coached him up, and even undermined him the entire time as his head coach. He put him in position to fail over and over, benched him repeatedly (despite having a winning record), could not keep competent coaching staff on offense, and actively pursued other options at QB. Not only was he a terrible coach, but a terrible person also.

[jackberling]

Flores is a bad coach. It wasn’t just the players who complained about him. It was his staff too. Coaches would leave and we didn’t understand why at the time. And sometimes Brian would fire them for no apparent reason. He knew defense, but was not capable of leading.

[ampinghard]

what people are missing is Flores wanted Tua gone, he never wanted him and he was taking out his frustrations of being forced to work with him on Tua while trying to make sure everyone saw him play poorly...

[sidekickz]

Y'all heard Tua, but you aren't listening. Flores wasn't "being tough because that's his style and it's tough love" NO. He was mean. Resentful. Spiteful. You can't have "Tough love"without love

[jrmiami]

btw its not only Tua who Flo treated bad... He hurt his young players for whatever reason

[daher]

Don't forget about minka Fitzpatrick. Minka was not happy with flores and asked to be traded. Look what he is doing for Pittsburgh now. An all pro

[jackberling]

No one likes to work for a guy like that.

[alexshirley]

The fact that an nfl owned website and the nfl owned nfl network show good morning football lets them talk about a guy who’s suing the league should tell you all you need to know about Brian Flores not only being a bad coach but a bad person as well

[JessyWilliamson]

Great coaches get to know who the players are as people then use that knowledge to apply coaching techniques, knowing who and when to praise and push is the heart of coaching. That's paraphrased from Saban.

[iamwhoiam]

He pretty much called him a terrible person so I do think it’s a knock on Brian Flores

[rjrj]

There's a difference between coaching hard and being critical vs. just tearing someone down.

[jaym]

Yeah it amazes me how so many pundits heard this as not a knock on flores. This isn't tua being soft, yall trippin

[juanmota]

A coach's job is to motivate players to get the most out of themselves. Not all players will respond the same, but your job as a coach is to know what makes that player tick.

[ivoeenink]

Good on Tua that he finally found the courage to speak his mind, on a coach who has been gone for multiple years who probably wanted to find out if Tua was a 'guy' or that he had any 'dawg' in him. Clearly he did not because he is soft and it's apparent B Flo still lives rent free in his mind. And now we move on...

Edit: hey NFL let's schedule a Vikings vs dolphins game next season?

[nonamephinsyt]

How funny that Kyle said we won't hear from Flores. We probably heard from Flores before Kyle said this.

[alvbusano]

Constructive criticism and hard nose coaching is one thing. Telling someone that this other person should be there in his place, now that’s just personal.

[jasonkelly]

Saban was hard but in a good way and in a loving way. Flores was hard in a way that was detrimental to the player’s psychological and emotional being and he didn’t like Tua and didn’t want Tua.

[bladerunner]

There’s a difference between coaching hard and coaching malpractice because Flores wanted Watson. He also undermined the GM during his time there. There was news towards the end of that last year players didn’t want to be at the facility. Brandt is playing this down without intimidate knowledge.