MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- took up golf about three months ago, and his father, Galu, gave him some advice."Keep your head down," Tua remembers his father telling him. "And I'll watch the ball."Tagovailoa is a self-confe sed lover of analogies, and this one has resonance for this particular moment, as he begins his second season for the Miami Dolphins -- and first as a full-time starter."It relates to what's going on in my life right now, too," Tagovailoa said in Jonathan Bullard Jersey an interview as he drove home from work seven hours after practice ended last weekend. "For me, when I'm golfing, my job is to focus on the ball and make sure I'm hitting the ball. Don't look at it. Go through your technique and your fundamentals and he'll watch it. When you're playing quarterback, you obviously have got to watch the ball. But the analogy is keeping my focus on what I have ahead of me, what play we have. That 'next play' mentality."In a 15-minute interview, Tagovailoa described -- multiple times -- what sounds like a defining characteristic of his life during his second training camp: tunnel vision. That's certainly an advisable approach.Tagovailoa's rookie Adam Shaheen Jersey year, the follow-up to the "Tanking for Tua" sensation that made him an NFL headliner long before he was drafted fifth overall by the Dolphins in 2020, was a blur of recovery from a hip injury, a COVID-obliterated offseason, sitting behind , a curiously-timed promotion to the starting job, a benching, another promotion, another benching and finally, that kept the Dolphins out of the playoffs and spurred an offseason of speculation that the Dolphins were already tiring of Tagovailoa.In a place where fans who attend practice exit the highway at a street named for while wearing their fading aqua No. 13 jerseys, Tagovailoa's undulating trajectory has made him the object of adulation, curiosity, nervousne s and relentle s evaluation. At Saturday's practice, the football team from nearby Norland High School sat in the bleachers, the teenagers James Daniels Jersey from the perennial powerhouse breaking down almost every snap. In one case, they noted that a Tagovailoa Kyle Long Jersey pa s should have been thrown more to the outside to give the receiver a better chance to catch it.Tagovailoa was a star at Alabama, so he is far from nave about the pre sures and demands of big-time football. And he has made at least one very smart life choice: He doesn't have cable, opting instead for Netflix and Disney Plus, sparing himself the chatter about future draft picks and that have become the soundtrack of armchair general managers as the summer wears on and Watson's situation in Houston remains unresolved. Still, Tagovailoa conveys unfailing happine s and optimism, coming acro s as the kind of person who rarely has a bad day. He seems to be reveling right now in the rudiments of practices -- getting reps in, getting timing down, making the kind of incremental progre s that coaches want to see.That has allowed him to find the good in what almost everyone else would say was, at best, a David Montgomery Jersey rookie season, one that might have undermined a player who is not as apparently ego-free as Tagovailoa."I've learned a lot," Tagovailoa said. "To me, there's talent and then there's experience. No matter how much talent you have, I don't think it ever overrides experience. For me, it's a lot of learning. I learned a lot last year and continue to learn a lot.""Most definitely it's been a positive," he added. "It Taylor Gabriel Jersey was my first year and nothing overrides experience. Being able to get into those games, get the experience, learn behind Fitz last year, it's helped me a lot. This year, having the offseason and having a new quarterback room with Jacoby Bri sett in there, asking him questions, and going out there and actually doing it. As many repetitions as we do now, it helps all of us, at every position. No matter how much film you watch, in order for you to be absorbing, you've got to do it."