The Miami Dolphins were willing to give up ‘everything’ to pry Tyreek Hill away from the Kansas City Chiefs.
Three years later, Hill is making it harder and harder for the Dolphins to justify keeping him in a Miami uniform.
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Tyreek Hill keeps going backward with the DolphinsCredit: Getty
Mike McDaniel’s crew was already winning the trophy for the most dysfunctional squad of the NFL preseason.
Now, the Dolphins’ head coach appears to be taking veiled shots at the team’s best offensive player.
Hill looks out of touch
“We thought it was funny that he (Hill) reported the news that wasn’t news on that practice day in that short-yardage period,” said McDaniel, using some serious inside football to vent his frustration.
Basically, Hill said out loud that the Dolphins needed to improve how they run their offense and switch out running backs.
The head coach reminded his player — in public — that the requested change had already been made, and Hill was behind the times.
“I thought it was genius reporting by Tyreek,” said McDaniel, with a ton of sarcasm.
Hill also missed a team stretching session — after insisting that he was taking warmups with his teammates more seriously in 2025.
When will it stop and where will it end up?
Time for a blockbuster
Trading Hill is increasingly the Dolphins best option.
Tua Tagovailoa deserves better as Miami’s talented quarterback.
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Mike McDaniel might be running out of patience with his star receiverCredit: Getty
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The Dolphins need to get the best out of Tua Tagovailoa this seasonCredit: Getty
But Tagovailoa has already been forced to call out Hill, after ‘Cheetah’ dragged his QB under a rolling bus.
“I’m just trying to hold him (Hill) accountable, because that’s what we try to do with everyone on our team,” Tagovailoa said.
“And if this is what we say the standard is, that’s what the standard is, and no one is exempt from it.”
McDaniel once was so overwhelmed at the idea of trading for Hill that he was willing to give up whatever it took.
“We have to have him,” McDaniel said in 2023, sounding more like an NFL fantasy follower than a gritty head coach.
Now, McDaniel sounds like he’s distancing himself from the often-troubled wide receiver.
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Hill has 11,098 career receiving yards and 82 touchdowns, and is theoretically the fastest player in the NFL.
But he quit on the Dolphins at the end of last season and pushed for a trade.
Then he spent the offseason challenging Noah Lyles and seemingly making empty promises.
It took Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes to get the best out of Hill in Kansas City.
Even then, the Chiefs were willing to move on from Hill, and Mahomes has won two Super Bowls without him.
A month away from Week 1, the Dolphins sound like they’re tired of Hill being Hill.
He’s in decline on the field, and his trade value off it is only decreasing.