Tua Tagovailoa's comments a reminder of failures of Bill Belichick's coaching tree

Bill Belichick is one of the most successful coaches in NFL history with six Super Bowl rings during his time with the New England Patriots.

All of that success has resulted in an extensive coaching tree over the years, with several of his former assistants and coordinators getting their own head coaching jobs.

There is just one pretty significant problem with that coaching tree: almost none of them have been successful as head coaches.

We received another reminder of that on Monday when Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa absolutely shredded former head coach Brian Flores for his coaching style and how much better it is under current head coach Mike McDaniel.

While Tagovailoa's comments were specifically about Flores, it does serve as a reminder as to how a similar trend has developed with so many of Belichick's former assistants.

Colin Cowherd addressed this on his show on Tuesday, going as far as to say Belichick's coaching tree has a toxic style in the NFL due to the combative nature of coaches like Flores, Josh McDaniels, Joe Judge, Matt Patricia and Bill O'Brien.

None of those coaches had any sort of sustained success in the NFL as head coaches. That same holds true for previous coordinators like Romeo Crennel, Charlie Weis and Eric Mangini.

It is an interesting trend to observe, mainly because so many of those coaches tried to take the same no-nonsense, cutthroat mentality that Belichick had in New England and apply to their new teams.

The problem with that? That grating approach does not work when the coach trying to deliver it does not have a bunch of Super Bowl rings on their hand to back it up. It was easier for Belichick to be that way because his players knew his team was going to win. But when you are Brian Flores or Mike McDaniel or Joe Judge and do not have that sort of success in running a team to fall back on, it is going to land flat, miss the mark and just make you look like a jerk that nobody wants to play for.

Today's players do not respond as well to that sort of coaching style for the most part, and it is on coaches to adapt to that. Belichick's coaching tree has not yet received that message.