Miami Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill will miss remainder of regular season | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

Miami Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill will miss remainder of regular season | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

the injury that we saw to receiver Tyreek Hill and the news is coming out. We’re always very careful to not speculate, but when I saw all the reports last night that they feared Tyreek Hill dislocated his knee, it was obvious he dislocated his knee. Some things don’t need to be reported. Some things don’t need to be feared. Some things just are because we saw it. It was a graphic and gruesome moment. It doesn’t happen very often. Thank God. But it underscores the And I hope we’re not playing this out to the end. I hope we’re not playing it out to the end. I hope we’re not playing that out to the end. I should have said something before the show. Please don’t play that again if we did. I can’t see because I’m in the alternate location because we’re still having technical issues. But thank you. We I didn’t see the whole thing. I was Thank you. We didn’t play it out to the end. But it underscores, Devin, what I think all fans need to appreciate about professional football and college football and really even high school football to an extent, but I think at college and pro level, the bodies are bigger. They’re moving faster. The forces apply to the same ligaments and bones and tendons, and you can have these extreme outcomes. Every time a guy walks on the field, he’s accepting the risk. Small as it may be, he’s accepting the risk that that’s going to happen. It doesn’t happen often, thank God, but it is it’s on the radar screen of the things that can happen when you choose to play football. And it’s this is a moment for us all to recognize that and understand and appreciate the stuff that you guys carry around as football players. And you did it for a long time. And I don’t know how you did it. And I don’t know how you compartmentalize what your job is with this everpresent risk that lightning is going to strike you or a teammate that you’re close to that it’s going to happen, you know, at any given time and nobody knows when, where, and how, but it’s there and it can happen. And last night was a reminder of it. No doubt. And and I think even from a bigger picture standpoint of the game of football for a lot of those guys have been a saving grace from whatever they’ve gone through in life. Like there’s a moment right before you step on the field that there’s a joy that you get 3 hours, 3 and 1/2 hours, whatever it is to do this thing that since you were a kid, it’s been a relief. It’s been something that you just go and you have a blast. whether it’s with your best friends when you were a kid or these new friends that you meet year after year that this team you join. And I think when you look at Tyreek Hill and you look at the things that have been going on in his life, I remember talking to my brother. He had the their game the first game of the year and he’s talking to him and everything was about him changing and doing different things. And he said, Tyreek Hill told him, “Hey, I’ve I’ve learned this year, it’s about legacy, about what I leave behind, what I’m remembered, and I’ve been working towards improving those things.” And a large part of those things that guys do, it comes from being on the football field as you’re changing things and you’re like, “Man, this is hard or this is that way.” And you get a chance to go out on that football field. So to watch him in a tough year of like, hey, the the targets haven’t been there, the big yards, and now you’re watching this game last night, and you’re like, man, Tyreek Hill looks like the Tyreek Hill we’ve seen in the past flying across your screen, the quickness, and it makes another big catch for them to move the ball down the field. And for me, watching it last night, I’m like, “Oh, man.” Like, I watched guys go to a knee right away. I watched guys cover their face and I was like, “Oh, that was bad.” And I cuz I turned my eyes away from the TV when he went to catch the ball. I was like, “Oh, first down.” And then I looked back, I’m like, “Oh, he must be hurt bad.” And then the replay and it’s just like, man, at his age, and you watch these things, it’s like, man, will he get to be the same player? Will he get a chance to be back out on the field and it looked like as he was getting carded off, it looked like he turned to the trainer and said, “We’re going to be together a lot.” And the trainer then put his arm around him. And you can just see like those moments for guys going off the field. And right away their mentality is, “All right, I need to figure out what I need to do to get back out here on this field.” As crazy as it sounds, that’s how guys think. And I’m sure Tyreek Hill was thinking about that the grind, how he’s going to have to recover, like all of those things. Instead of probably thinking, “Woe is me,” his mind was going, “How do I get back out here?” Um, and again, it’s a credit to all the guys that have taken the field and know that feeling, but continue to say, “I want to be back out here for me, my family, and the fans and the people that love the game.” And there are so many injuries that aren’t nearly as gruesome as what we saw last night. And I happen to be looking at the TV when it occurred in the third quarter of the game because that was part of this what do you watch? What do you focus on? And I happened to be looking at that game and I saw it instantly and it feels like when you witness something like that, you’ve been physically punched in the stomach. I know that that was my reaction and we we don’t see that. We shouldn’t have to process that. And I know that there’s a lot that we see and shouldn’t see nowadays that we have access to whenever we want on our phone. But still, there are certain things that will affect you, and this affected me physically to see that. We had Tank Dell with a similar injury on a Saturday game last year, the Texans Chiefs game late in the regular season. They don’t happen very often, thank God. But when they happen, it it really does just cast a Paul over everything that’s going on. And and it from the perspective of the person watching at home, you’re trying to process what you just saw. And I what a challenge it is for the people putting on the game because I wouldn’t have shown the replay. They had to make a decision right away whether or not to show the replay. and they show the replay. And again, nobody’s doing anything out of malice. These are good people, hardworking, trying to do the right thing. This doesn’t happen often enough that there’s a procedure you’ll fall back to right away. An instinct that you have even for the guys calling the game, you know, they don’t do a game every week. They may have never witnessed anything like this. There was just kind of a nonchalance after. And I think that happens all the time. And again, I’m not being critical. People had to figure out how they’re going to go forward because the game goes forward. You know, the NFL is still very sensitive about the reality that they had planned to continue the Bills Bengals game the night of the Demar Hamlin near death literally incident. Well, that’s how it works. Guy gets injured, player gets removed, game goes on without a beat. Yeah. And for some injuries, it just feels weird. And I’m not suggesting they should have had a second halftime. I’m not suggesting they should have ended the game. It just feels weird. And I know it felt that way to me. And I don’t know how other people felt because it seemed like everything’s normal. Life goes on. Periodic updates on Tyreek Hill, but the game keeps going. I mean, even the players, you know, the players are boom, they keep going. You have to keep going because the game keeps going. And it’s a reminder, small picture, big picture for every player who steps away from the game, it keeps going. Everybody connected to the game in any way, shape, or form, it doesn’t matter. It keeps going. The game is going to keep going. Back to what we’re talking about earlier, keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and nothing stops the game except the Demar Hamlin incident. And that almost didn’t stop the game. Yeah. And as a player, your program from college to professional of I’ve been on practice fields where a guy gets hurt on one of our fields and we just the coach will start yelling out riversided turning around and go the other way. And there was a time we had a practice where the ambulance had to come out and we just switch fields. Like we’re we’re preparing to go play in a Super Bowl. We we we switch fields as the ambulance is out there and for players it it is it’s mentally it’s a it’s a effed up situation that you’re watching for Miami last night like you’re watching a guy who’s been a captain on the team who’s been a leader one of your best players and you watch him go down but then in your mind he just picked up a first down and the drive still goes and you got to figure out all right we got to get in the end zone to try to put this game like all of those things have to come right back in your mind as you were just down there saying a a prayer for your brother that just got hurt. Like all of those things are mixed in there and like you said, it’s tough for everyone because that coach in your ear for uh Mike McDaniels and Tua like Mike Mcves this along and then there’s a player that’ll advance it along and it’s it’s a very tough thing to do and I and I would say you never really get used to it. You just get programmed on what to do. And I think even for, you know, Orski and Riddick in the booth last night of they’ve seen gruesome injuries before. And when you’re a player, you vividly remember the ones you were watching. You remember the ones you’ve been at. I remember being on the field and somebody dislocated their ankle and their ankle and their foots turned their other way. Like you vividly remember those moments and they all come crashing back in your mind and then the program takes over of, oh, we got to move on next play mentality. So very weird thing and again I I think it gives a lot of credit to everyone involved in the game players coaches. Obviously it’s a lot harder for players physically but everyone that’s able to move on the people that broadcasting the game to move on and still give you the best of them in whatever role they play and somebody watching the game. Uh, a lot of credit goes to that because it’s it’s not an easy thing to do and I think it is difficult and it’s challenging in that moment to strike the right tone as you do go forward because it doesn’t happen very often. Thank God it doesn’t very happen very often. And you know, some of you may have been wondering as Devin was explaining the injuries he’s witnessed. Devin was gone from Ruters when the Eric Lrand injury happened. That was 2010. And that was during uh Deon’s rookie year with the New England Patriots because that was one of the rare serious injuries that actually helped contribute to the changes we now see with the kickoff because it was a reminder of those high forces, those high speeds that players can reach and then they collide and you can have a serious neck injury, which is what happened to Eric Lrand in 2010. But yeah, the game goes on and we’ll see how long Tyreek Hill is out. He’ll be out for the rest of the year. Torn ACL, one of the various ligaments damaged because it’s not the dislocation of the knee in and of itself that’s a problem. It’s the damage that’s done as that knee moves in ways it shouldn’t that disrupts and impairs and tears ligaments. And so torn ACL we know he won’t be back this year. The question is when will he be back and and what will he have? He’s 31. Father Time otherwise is making his inevitable assault and now this on top of it. It’s going to be a challenge for Tyreek Hill and we wish him the best. Hi, it’s Mike Florio. Thanks for watching PFT on YouTube. Hit subscribe for the latest news and analysis from Pro Football

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