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Last week, the Miami Dolphins were fined for tampering charges for trying to bring Tom Brady and Sean Payton to South Florida.
Fittingly, the Dolphins’ first preseason game is this Saturday in Tampa, Florida against Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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But head coach Mike McDaniel has no idea what happened between the team and the quarterback a few years ago.
“For me, nothing happened,” he told reporters Wednesday.
When McDaniel was asked if there was anything awkward about it, McDaniel implied that his locker room was free of such things.
“It’s everyone else who’s awkward. You don’t take up a single space with anyone. It’s hard enough to do well in this league.”
Dolphins team owner Stephen Ross has been in some heat lately, as former head coach Brian Flores also accused him of offering to pay $100,000 for all the losses the team lost in the 2019 season. increase.
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An NFL investigation found no evidence of bribery, but the league found that Ross felt tanking was in the team’s best interest.
However, McDaniel is simply focused on today’s football and pays no attention to the past.
“As the Miami Dolphins, all our energies are very aligned and are only about making us better, and everything else is an opportunity cost that we don’t want to spend. I guess.
Rather than acquire Brady, the Dolphins drafted Tua Tagovailoa with the sixth pick in 2020. They stuck with Flores until last season.
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The two quarterbacks will face each other for the first time in the NFL on Saturday, after Tagovailoa was injured in a matchup between the two teams last season.