Tua Tagovailoa was not pleased with the comments made by ESPN’s Ryan Clark on a recent edition of NFL Live.
Clark implied heavily that Tua did not work out this offseason and looked a little thick around the midsection.
Ryan Clark’s bit was good for a laugh on the set at ESPN, even if it won’t seem funny to South Florida.
Speaking on the network’s NFL Live studio coverage, Clark ripped Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, accusing him of not working out this offseason, of not following the team nutritionist’s recommendations and of, well, being fat.
“Let me tell you what he wasn’t doing: He wasn’t in the gym, I’ll bet you that,” Clark said.
Clark was only getting warmed up while soaking in laughter from the other panelists.
“He might spend a lot of time in the tattoo parlor,” Clark said. “He was not at the dinner table eating what the nutritionist had advised. He looks ‘happy.’ He is thick. He’s built like the girls working at Onyx right now.”
This level of hate from Ryan Clark is unbelievable…
Tua does nothing but keep his head down and work his tail off the ENTIRE off season to get his body right.
How dare @espn for the constant hate y’all don’t even hide it anymore pic.twitter.com/w5I6OwZJH4
— JoeRobbie (@JoeRobbie_) August 22, 2023
Clark did not mean “happy” in a good way. And Onyx is a strip club in Atlanta.
Clark was clearly making a joke, but Tua didn’t think it was very funny and told Clark he better watch his back and keep his name out of his mouth.
Essentially, Tua went Will Smith on Clark.
Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa with very strong words for ESPN analyst Ryan Clark comments about him. He noted his Samoan culture of respect.
“We are tough-minded people but if we need to get scrappy, we can get scrappy.” pic.twitter.com/9Cl7tIhSOE
— Cameron Wolfe (@CameronWolfe) August 23, 2023
