Pablo Torre

Chris, are you listening to what Nick Wright left you now?

He left a voice message.

We'll send it to video so that we can all find out together how he did in his poker game.

But before we get to that, let's play the Mike McDaniel sound.

If you're not familiar with what Tua did, he basically volunteered.

After that Chargers loss, and we all reacted kind of the same way to this, like, ooh, that's not leadership.

Greg Cody disagreed, but most people thought that Tua saying, volunteering, that his players, his teammates were late to a players-only meeting, it ended up somehow becoming the talking point that was even larger today.

than the Dolphins losing the game.

So Mike McDaniel had to address it yesterday and he does it in his meandering style, which everyone has gotten tired of because it often includes words chosen incorrectly.

Like it often has words in it that he's trying to use that he thinks mean one thing, but don't mean what he thinks they mean.

There are a number of things in there I want to get to, but what is the phrase he used?

Misrepresentation of player-organized film sessions.

Is he saying that those weren't player-only meetings, that they're being filed as player-only meetings by Tua because people are late for them?

I didn't take it this way, and I'd be interested from a reporter who covers the team.

What I thought Mike McDaniel was saying there, even though he used twice as many words as he had to use in order to say it, is that –

Tua called them players only meetings because they are meetings that only the players are in, but it's not the emergency players only meeting that you call when there's a panic and you want to make sure that away from the coaches, you're doing things that not even the coaches do to hold you accountable.

I think that what Mike McDaniel was saying there is these are just film sessions.

Some guys showed up late and now Tua is calling them players only meetings.

And when you say they're late for players only meetings, you're creating a, you're,

You're furthering dysfunction that we've had for a year around here where people think I'm not in charge, we're not in control, and the players don't actually care.