INSIDE SCOOP: Brett Favre says THIS is why Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is so successful



As another weekend of NFL football wraps up, Jason Whitlock evaluates which teams and players shined and which failed to perform.

“The biggest star of the weekend,” he says, was “Tua Tagovailoa,” the Miami Dolphins quarterback who “absolutely lit it up” in the game against the New England Patriots.

However, Jason is also concerned that Tua’s success might be short-lived because the team has “the fastest pair of receivers perhaps in NFL history … between Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle.”

“I just wonder if Tua has the arm strength to keep up with those guys over a 17-game NFL season,” he tells Brett Favre.

But Brett isn’t nearly as concerned.

One reason for that is because Tua’s position coach, Darrell Bevell, is a good friend of Brett’s and “one of the better coaches in the league.”

On top of Bevell’s excellent coaching, Tua has “great knowledge of the game,” as well as “anticipation and … good rhythm,” he explains to Jason.

Further, Brett also thinks Tua has found a way to compensate for his questionable arm strength. “He throws the ball so far in advance before the guy comes out of his break,” he says, and he knows how to “[play] within his own strengths and weaknesses.”


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Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa faces liberal backlash for recommending 'Sound of Freedom' movie



Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa faced some backlash from embittered liberals who were angry that he recommended people watch the "Sound of Freedom" movie.

Tagavailoa made the comments during a media briefing on Wednesday when he was asked what the football players do off the field to bond, and he said they watch movies.

"We had an off day yesterday coming here. Went to dinner with the guys on Monday. And then we also got to go watch a movie yesterday, so it was cool. It was, like, a movie fest yesterday," he responded.

"The 'Sound of Freedom's' good. Yeah, 'Sound of Freedom's' definitely good, you should watch that, especially you guys with kids," he added.

He also said Dolphins players watched "Oppenheimer" and called it "pretty good" but "freaking long."

The fairly innocuous comment was met with derision by many who saw the movie as a battle in the political and culture war.

"I just block it in my mind that I spend countless hours a year analyzing a position where 75% of the guys are Conservative Christian nutjobs," responded one critic on social media.

"If an athlete on one of your favorite sports teams is talking about the Sound of Freedom, smash the under this season. The only sound of freedom they’re going to hear is in January during the playoffs," read another response.

"I will absolutely admit that as a life long Dolphins fan, & a big Tua fan, that Tua’s comments were not only disappointing but demoralizing & concerning. Sound of Freedom has exploited religious people during its entire run. It’s horrible that he is just another brainwashed idiot," said another detractor.

"NOW I WILL ACTIVELY ENJOY WATCHING YOU FAIL THIS SEASON!...Mfer has one too many concussions in a season and came out a Qanoner lol," read another tweet.

Tagovailoa is unapologetic about his Christian beliefs, but he has not voiced any political preference he might have.

“Your foundation is what you’re always going to revert back to. For me, my foundation is my faith and family,” he said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network. “You know, my faith is what keeps me motivated when I can’t even stay motivated myself.”

Here's the video of Tagovailoa's comments:

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Whitlock: Football feminization reached a new low on Sunday



We used to understand that not everything is for everybody. We no longer do. We live in the era of unisex bathrooms. In the name of “inclusion,” we killed the Boy Scouts to make room for girls. We expanded marriage.

We bought the lie that everything is for everybody. We embraced the myth that we can have it all. No, we can’t. Our collective pursuit of everything undergirds America’s decline.

Pat Riley, the NBA legend, calls it the “disease of more.” A team wins a championship, and every member of the organization wants more for themselves. The quest for more eventually changes the character of the pursuer. He or she loses life balance and compromises core values in the hunt for more.

In my opinion, the “disease of more” explains Tom Brady’s rumored divorce. You can’t have it all.

It’s a lesson that the NFL will soon learn. The National Football League, America’s favorite form of entertainment, wants to have it all. Under the weak leadership of commissioner Roger Goodell, the NFL has spent the last 15 years pursuing corporate media-defined inclusion.

A sport intended to groom young boys and men to compete in a meritocracy has bowed to the feminist worldview of diversity, inclusion, and equity. The NFL strives to be everything for everybody. The push for inclusion has caused the league to prioritize safety.

Safety is a woman’s priority. Men seek thrills and danger. Men aren’t sadistic. We’re made different by design. Our love of danger leads to progress and advancement. Men called “roughnecks” built skyscrapers in the 1920s. Forty percent of them fell to their deaths or disablement. Women never would have done it.

The NFL’s preference to maximize safety and limit danger poses the greatest threat to America’s most popular sport. It’s a far more damaging initiative than the league’s promotion of Black Lives Matter and anti-American sentiment.

People watch football because we’re entertained by seeing men flirt with danger in pursuit of a goal.

Football is far less entertaining than it was 20 years ago, before an onslaught of rules changes softened the game and demonized hard hits. Yesterday’s Atlanta-Tampa Bay game was ruined when referee Jerome Boger flagged a Falcons defensive lineman for a routine sack of Tom Brady. The roughing-the-passer penalty cost Atlanta any chance of a comeback.

On Miami’s first offensive play against the New York Jets, officials monitoring the game removed quarterback Teddy Bridgewater because he allegedly briefly staggered when getting to his feet after a routine hit. Bridgewater was not allowed to return to the game. Facing Miami’s third-string quarterback, the Jets won in a romp.

The Brady and Bridgewater plays are a direct result of the Tua Tagovailoa controversy two weeks ago. Tagovailoa, who is fragile, suffered brief paralysis after a routine hit. Without a shred of evidence, broadcasters and social media influencers connected Tagovailoa’s brief paralysis to a hit he suffered four days earlier.

Broadcasters demonized the Dolphins organization and the team’s head coach for allowing Tua to play. The NFLPA demanded an investigation and then worked with the NFL to enact immediate new rules related to concussion protocols. Those new rules are why Bridgewater disappeared yesterday after one play.

We all want football to be safe. When it’s not safe, we want to blame somebody.

The game isn’t meant to be safe. It’s meant to be dangerous and entertaining. People are going to get hurt. It’s inevitable. It’s no different from boxing or mixed martial arts. It’s no different from working on a skyscraper in the 1920s.

The NFL won’t make this argument because the league wants to be all things to all people. It wants to avoid upsetting women and men who have been feminized to the point that they might as well be women.

The NFL fears moms. Women who won’t let their sons play football because the sport is too dangerous. They’re the same women who won’t let their kids go to school without wearing a mask. They’re women who want to remove all the risks from life.

Women and beta males desire for all of us to sit in our homes playing video games, communicating over social media, watching 50-year-old Queen Latifah beat up men in "The Equalizer" TV series, and waiting for our next booster shot.

They want us all to transition into women. Their plan is working.

I’ve watched football for 50 years. I turned off my television when I saw Tua’s momentarily disfigured fingers locked in the air. I briefly lost my appetite for football. That has never happened before. It speaks to the impact of football concussion propaganda. I’ll watch someone get knocked out in the ring or octagon and jump for joy.

But we have been programmed to see violence in football as savage and gruesome. Fifteen years ago, Chris Berman and Tom Jackson could react to NFL big hits the way Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier still do at UFC events. We’re all still allowed to enjoy seeing fighters get put in the concussion protocol. It’s socially unacceptable to enjoy it on the football field.

We pretend that the grossly exaggerated CTE pandemic only affects football players.

We’ve been feminized. We’ve been programmed to prioritize our emotions and feelings over logic and fact.

We no longer know when, how, and where we should feed and support man’s innate desire to take risks. We’ve been convinced swiping left and right on Tinder is a better venue for risk-taking than a football field. More kids will be permanently and severely damaged in a hospital operating room undergoing gender-affirming surgery than playing football.

You get my point? The very people trying to make the world safer are actually making it more dangerous.

Football isn’t for women. Trying to make the game more palatable to women is a mistake. It’s why Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray showed up to work on Sunday wearing a lime green Hillary Clinton pantsuit.

Among other things, feminized football turns men into runway models.

Whitlock: The problem is Tua Tagovailoa, not football



It’s been four days since the Cincinnati Bengals knocked out Tua Tagovailoa, and we still haven’t asked the most obvious question:

Should Tua Tagovailoa play professional football?

His injury history suggests that the talented left-hander doesn’t have the physical makeup to survive in the NFL. While starring at Alabama, Tua suffered broken fingers, knee and ankle sprains, and a devastating hip injury. Since joining the NFL, the 24-year-old Dolphins quarterback has broken a thumb, a finger, and a rib, and in his last two games, he’s been removed twice, the last time on a stretcher.

What happened to Tua on Thursday Night Football justifiably provoked emotion. Rag-dolled to the ground by a 300-pound defender, Tua suffered temporary paralysis that disfigured his hands. It was gross. I turned off my television and never returned to the game. I didn’t want to see the replay. I felt sorry for Tagovailoa and his family.

Across social media, blue-check influencers simultaneously donned stethoscopes and unveiled law degrees, diagnosing the Dolphins and the NFL with criminal malpractice.

How could the Dolphins allow Tua to play four days after he left and returned to the Bills game after wobbling off the field with an apparent head and back injury?

Heads must roll! The Dolphins obliged, firing a doctor for allegedly botching the league’s concussion protocols.

The blue checks also blasted Amazon Prime’s halftime crew of Charissa Thompson, Tony Gonzalez, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Richard Sherman for failing to mention and/or connect Tua’s latest injury to the injury that occurred four days earlier. Gonzalez made the mistake of honesty, humility, and accuracy when he suggested no one on Amazon’s panel was really qualified to second-guess the NFL’s handling of Tua’s injury.

Honesty, humility, and accuracy are the enemies of social media. Outrage is Twitter’s best friend. Outrage perverts perspective and provokes shortsighted, knee-jerk responses.

Mission accomplished.

Three days after doctors carted Tua off the field, NFL teams benched at least a dozen players because of the concussion protocols. Yahoo Sports called it the “Tua Effect.” The blue checks call it “progress.”

I call it what it is: stupidity.

You don’t change football because Tua Tagovailoa is Glass Joe.

You remember Glass Joe from the Nintendo Punch-Out video game? He was a 38-year-old French flyweight with a record of one win and 99 losses. He was the ultimate beta male and fashionista. He was the first opponent a gamer faced on his way to the title.

I’m not calling Tua a beta. He’s not. Tua is as mentally tough as any quarterback not named Jalen Hurts. Tua has a heart for the game of football. He’s just not built for it. He’s small and brittle. He can’t take a punch.

He needs to retire.

Football doesn’t need to be further softened because Tua’s genetics make him a bad fit for the NFL.

Thursday Night Football on four days’ rest is a bad concept. It’s a substandard product, and it’s unfair to the players. There are ways to protect the players, improve the game, and give the TV networks more high-end content.

Reduce the preseason to two games, expand the regular season to 18 games played over 20 weeks, and limit each player to 16 games. With a 20-week window to play 18 games, there would be no reason for any team to play after four days of rest.

With the direction the NFL is headed as it relates to concussions and its protocols, it’s going to become more and more rare for skill players to play all 17 games. You might as well build the downtime into the schedule. The Cowboys have been interesting to watch with Cooper Rush at quarterback. It would be interesting to see coaches manage their rosters over the course of the season. Which weeks and against which opponents would Andy Reid sit Patrick Mahomes? When would John Harbaugh sit Lamar Jackson?

I digress a bit.

The point of this column is that the media botched the reaction to Tua’s injury. We spent the weekend blaming the Dolphins and the NFL for Tua’s genetic shortcomings.

There’s no proof that what happened to Tua on Thursday was connected to what happened to him four days earlier. None. That’s pure speculation. What we know is Tua gets hurt a lot playing football. We know he’s not an ideal size for his position. He doesn’t appear particularly strong.

Lamar Jackson takes more hits. He doesn’t miss games.

Nothing perverts logic and nuanced conversation quite like social media. It empowers emotional thinkers and baits logical people to abandon reason. It demands that we vilify certain people based on their race, wealth, authority, and gender and certain industries based their relationship to masculinity and popularity.

Football is the bad guy. We can watch boxers and UFC fighters get concussed in the ring or octagon and applaud loudly when they shake it off and continue to fight.

Over the weekend, I watched Larry Holmes’ 1978 fight against Ernie Shavers. Shavers rocked Holmes with a right hand in the 11th round. Holmes collapsed to the canvas, got back on his feet, stumbled around the ring the rest of the round, and survived to win the fight.

My takeaway was that Holmes was a much greater champion than he’s given credit for. I didn’t rewatch the fight and think boxing needs to change.

Why are we more concerned about the health of football players than of fighters?

On social media, concern is attached to agenda, not humanity.

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