After Sunday’s loss to the Chargers, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said he thinks problems with the 1-5 team “ starts with the leadership ” and included “guys not showing up to player-only meetings” as one of the places where that leadership was lacking.

Tagovailoa’s decision to air those feelings from the podium at a postgame press conference rather than doing so in-house was met with criticism that extended to the quarterback and captain of the team saying there was a leadership void. Head coach Mike McDaniel defended Tagovailoa on Sunday and called him “a direct communicator,” but he shared a different view during a Monday press conference.

McDaniel admitted that reporters “caught me before I heard” Tagovailoa’s full comments and, now that he has, he agrees that it wasn’t th

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