Tua calls out some Fins for meeting attendance

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Miami Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa said the squad has respective "little things" to cleanable up pursuing its 1-5 start, including attendance astatine player-led meetings.

Shortly aft Miami's 29-27 nonaccomplishment Sunday to the Los Angeles Chargers, Tagovailoa was asked however players tin refrain from feeling atrocious for themselves. The Dolphins person present mislaid 4 games this play successful which they trailed by 1 people successful the last 2 minutes.

Tagovailoa, who threw the go-ahead touchdown but besides 3 interceptions, mentioned imaginable changes to player-led meetings passim the week.

"I deliberation it starts with the enactment successful helping articulate that for the guys and past what we're expecting retired of the guys," helium said. "We're expecting this -- are we getting that? Are we not getting that? We person guys showing up to subordinate lone meetings late, guys not showing up to players-only meetings. There's a batch that goes into that. Do we person to marque this mandatory? Do we not person to marque this mandatory?

"It's a batch of things of that quality that we've got to get cleaned up, and it starts with small things similar that."

The Dolphins had conscionable a 6% accidental to triumph Sunday's crippled entering the 4th quarter, according to NextGen Stats, arsenic Los Angeles led by 10 points. But Miami scored 14 unanswered points, taking a one-point pb connected Tagovailoa's 7-yard walk to Darren Waller with 46 seconds remaining successful the game.

The Chargers returned the ensuing kickoff to Miami's 41-yard line, however, and backmost Justin Herbert connected with Ladd McConkey for a 42-yard summation connected 2nd down to acceptable up a game-winning tract goal.

Tagovailoa called the nonaccomplishment a "shock" earlier revealing the team's interior issues with its player-led meetings. He took work for his 3 turnovers, and shifted his absorption to Miami's crippled successful Week 7 against the Cleveland Browns.

"The lone spot we tin spell is adjacent week," helium said. "We speech astir figuring this out. We speech astir getting it unneurotic collectively. What are the problems, what are the issues and are they getting fixed? Are they not getting fixed? Why are they not getting fixed? Or if they're fixed, however are we not allowing it to hap again? Things of that nature.

"We've got to look astatine the movie again, we've got to spot wherever we tin go. I contributed to a batch of that arsenic good with the 3 turnovers. You can't bash that and expect to triumph games."

Linebacker Jordyn Brooks, who, similar Tagovailoa, is simply a squad captain, declined to remark connected the Dolphins' subordinate meetings erstwhile asked. Coach Mike McDaniel said player-led meetings are "outside of what I demand" and he's seen players clasp themselves accountable wrong what he's asked them to do.

"We've been precise accountable to me," McDaniel said. "It sounds similar determination was thing connected his caput successful respect to the circumstantial meetings with a mates individuals that helium was trying to get corrected ... with nonstop communication. I deliberation that's the lone mode to pb arsenic acold arsenic wherever we've been astatine arsenic a program. I deliberation we've opened the aerial connected each of that and it's precise wide however we clasp radical accountable and with each those things.

"Clearly he's sending a message, but from my standpoint, everything that I've asked of the guys, they person delivered on. I'm definite whomeve...