The Dolphins are feeling the heat in South Beach.
Miami dropped to 1-5 on the season thanks to Sunday’s 29-27 loss to the Chargers, the second straight defeat in which the team has seen a lead evaporate in the final two minutes of a game, necessitating quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to field a question about how to avoid a “woe is me” attitude postgame.
Tagovailoa pointed to leaning on leaders, though as he continued, he revealed a potential culture crisis in the locker room.
“I think it starts with the leadership in helping articulate that for the guys, and then what we’re expecting out of the guys,” Taovailoa said, via team transcript. “We’re expecting this. Are we getting that? Are we not getting that? We have guys showing up to player-only meetings late. Guys not showing up to player-only meetings. There is a lot that goes into that. Do we have to make that mandatory? Do we not have to make that mandatory? So it’s a lot of things of that nature that we got to get cleaned up. It starts with the little things like that.”
Asked for clarification that he was really saying teammates were late or missing players-only meetings, Tagovailoa said, “Late. Yeah.”