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First Take

Hour 2: Gold Melo

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe are joined by Ryan Clark to discuss Tua Tagovailoa's troubling comments about his former head coach Brian Flores. Fantasy football expert Field Yates also joins the show to tell you everything you need to know before you draft your team this season. Stephen A. and Shannon also react to Carmelo Anthony saying he wouldn't trade in his three Olympic gold medals for an NBA championship. They also discuss Tom Brady's comments saying NFL rookie development is a "tragedy." Lastly, the duo weighs in on the possibility of NFL speedster Tyreek Hill racing against Olympic gold medalist runner Noah Lyles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tua isn't holding back his disdain for his former coach Brian Flores any longer.

0:06.0

The Dolphins quarterback opened up about Flores in an interview on the Dan Leavittard show on

0:09.7

Monday calling him a terrible person. Flores who comes from the Bill Belch at Coaching Tree

0:15.2

was the Dolphins head coach from 2019 2021 and the team drafted to a before his second season

0:20.9

with the number five pick in the 2020 NFL draft. Here's two on his former coach

0:24.9

versus his new coach Mike McDaniel. To put it in simplest terms if you woke up

0:32.0

every morning and I told you you suck at what you did that you don't

0:38.8

belong doing what you do that you shouldn't be here, that this guy should be here, that you haven't earned this

0:47.1

right, and then you have somebody else come in and tell you, dude, you are the best fit for this.

0:53.6

Like, you are accurate.

0:55.7

How would it make you feel listening to one or the other?

0:59.6

And you hear it more and more,

1:01.6

you start to actually believe that basically been what two years

1:04.5

of training that out of not just me but you know a couple of the guys as well that have

1:09.2

been here since my rookie year.

1:12.0

All right.

1:13.0

Ryan, I live in the world where words are powerful, but I realize I'm not an NFL player

1:17.6

and don't know what it's like to be in a locker room.

1:19.2

I just want your reaction to the sound before we get into the debate.

1:21.9

Yeah, I think the biggest thing is like you have to coach different players in different ways if you want to get the best out of them.

1:28.8

Some players can be told those sorts of things and use them for motivation and there are other players who really don't care what you tell them it's about them and the way that they're going to approach their job

1:39.1

Obviously for Brian Flores though you saw that this wasn't working with Tua Tunka Valoa and maybe that's why you were

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