The Miami Dolphins lost the final game of the season, 32-20 to the woeful New York Jets, finished with a losing record of 8-9 and missed the NFL playoffs.
And we’re here to tell you all that may be the least of Miami’s concerns.
After the game, wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who had a poor season but was voted by his peers as the best player in the NFL before this season, sounded like a player who wants out.
“I don’t even know, bro,” Hill said in a corridor outside Miami’s dressing area. “This is my first time I haven’t been in the playoffs. I mean for me, like I said man, I just gotta’ do what’s best for me and my family, dawg. If that’s here, or wherever the case may be, man, I’m going to open the door for myself, dawg. I’m opening the door. Like, I’m out, man. You know, so, it was great playing here, but, you know, at the end of the day, bro, I gotta’ do what’s best for, you know, for my career…”
After the game, coach Mike McDaniel said he was not going to respond to emotion with emotion. And he said that at the moment, Hill’s comments were second-hand to him.
But there’s another layer of problem to this.
Hill said that due to his wrist injury, “coach kind of pulled me out.”
But that story, as often is the case with Hill, does not align with the one McDaniel revealed after the game.
“I was informed he wasn’t available,” McDaniel said, adding there was not a new injury. “I think at that point in time my focus was on the players. … There were guys on the field competing and trying to win a game.”
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