Tua Tagovailoa clarifies his comment that NFL hasn’t been as hard as he expected
By SDS Staff
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Alabama fans know Tua Tagovailoa as a humble person and football player. Plenty of people were surprised by the headline that the former Crimson Tide standout didn’t find the NFL as hard as he expected.
The Miami rookie’s comment in an NBC interview generated headlines around the NFL media sphere:
“I expected it to be a lot harder,” Tagovailoa told Pro Football Talk. “Not that it’s not hard.”
Tagovailoa has clarified those comments. He stands by expecting it to be more difficult, but stressed that he is not calling playing against pro defenses “easy.”
“I think that was probably taken out of context, because after I said that, there was another paragraph,” Tagovailoa told the Palm Beach Post. “I still have a long ways to go. There’s a lot of things that I need to learn. By (no) means did I mean that the NFL was easy. Because it’s hard. It’s difficult to score, it’s difficult to move the ball against these guys. But from what I originally expected it was going to be, as far as the difficulty, it wasn’t as I expected, is what I’m trying to say.”
It hasn’t been easy, but Tagovailoa is off to a 3-0 start in his pro career. If he delivers a Dolphins victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday, he would be the first NFL rookie quarterback since Ben Roethlisberger in 2004 to start 4-0.
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