The Miami Dolphins and star wide receiver Tyreek Hill are not exactly seeing eye to eye on things at the moment. Hill recently said that punctuality was “very important,” only to be late to team stretching two days later.
Now the relationship between the Hill and the franchise is going sideways again, per Pro Football Talk.
“Take De‘Von [Achane] out on third down — what?” Hill said when asked how to fix last season’s short-yardage struggles. “That’s my honest opinion. If it’s third-and-short, he’s not a power back. I keep telling him that in the locker room, but he swears he’s a power back.
“I love De’Von, but if I’m being honest like that’s why you got Jaylen Wright, that’s why you got Ollie Gordon II, for those kind of situations.”
However, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel is saying that this change has already occurred.
“I thought it was genius reporting by Tyreek seeing how we had a short-yardage period that very day that you guys were in attendance for, and his suggestion was I guess congruent with [running backs coach Eric] Studesville — that’s exactly how we repped the backs in that short-yardage period that very day. But we thought it was funny that he reported the news that wasn’t news on that practice day in that short-yardage period that you guys were all there, too, for.”
Fans reacted to McDaniel’s revelation on social media.
“The Dolphins players whined about Fangio for working them too hard and he was gone. Some would call McDaniel a ‘players coach.’ He’s not, he’s a piss poor leader who gets no respect. A players coach is Andy Reid, who treats his guys well while having their complete respect,” one fan wrote on Twitter.
“If Tyreek Hill could have been traded, he would have been traded. There will be nothing pre-deadline that wouldn’t have been easier to do in the last two months,” one fan added.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Dolphins resort to trading Hill.
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