After ending the previous season with a locker-room outburst and indicating he wished out from the Miami Dolphins, star huge receiver Tyreek Hill made clear Friday he truly needs to return to the crew for the 2025 season.
“I do,” Hill stated in a Tremendous Bowl radio-row interview with the Up and Adams Present. “I don’t need to go nowhere.
“I like it. My household loves. Youngsters completely love being on the seashore each morning. It’s a fantastic factor. We’re actually constructing one thing particular in Miami. We made it to the playoffs the primary two years. Clearly, this 12 months was onerous, but when guys proceed to purchase in to what coach (Mike McDaniel) is constructing and the tradition he’s attempting to construct, it’s going to be a fantastic factor.”
Hill stated his exit assembly from the previous season with McDaniel was “very intense.” McDaniel and normal supervisor Chris Grier indicated they’d a productive hourlong dialog with Hill within the days after his beautiful end-of-season remarks within the MetLife Stadium guests’ locker room because the Dolphins’ irritating 12 months got here to a detailed at 8-9 and out of the playoffs.
“I can’t put my head coach by that, as a result of he already has sufficient issues to fret about,” Hill stated. “I’ve an ideal relationship with all of our coaches, all of our coaching employees, all people in that constructing. I’ve plenty of respect for these guys, and people guys have plenty of respect for me.”
Hill stated his mom truly set him straight after his tirade on Jan. 5.
“It gave me a while to consider it like, sure, I might’ve dealt with the scenario higher by, as a substitute of claiming, ‘I’m out,’ I might’ve dealt with it higher. And I want I did,” Hill stated.
“However within the warmth of the second I simply stated no matter I needed to say, and I’m taking full accountability of that.
“I need to win. We need to win, and I’m certain the followers need to win. However I really feel like plenty of issues wanted to be stated generally. It’s robust proper now. I need to come again.”
Hill stated he does remorse his remarks when requested immediately if that was the case by host Kay Adams.
Requested about any mending he should do together with his teammates, he stated: “For me, I really like to point out guys my onerous work and my appreciation to them by simply going to follow daily, busting my tail, exhibiting as much as conferences on time, simply doing the whole lot the correct means, the precise means a professional is meant to be.”
Tardiness for conferences was one of many end-of-season themes final month, each in participant interviews on locker cleanout day and in Grier and McDaniel’s season wrap.
“This 12 months, I’m kind of holding myself to that customary,” Hill stated. “I need to be the most effective, and that’s sort of what has helped me keep on this league and achieve success on this league. … I don’t need to fall off who I’m and who my dad and mom need me to be.”
He stated he had conversations with veteran teammates in left sort out Terron Armstead, cornerback Jalen Ramsey and working again Raheem Mostert after the conclusion of the crew’s 2024 season. In the course of the interview, he provided a proper public apology to quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and the remainder of the crew.
Grier stated, after the season, Hill by no means got here to him with a commerce request, and Hill’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, has said his shopper is dedicated to the Dolphins.
With Hill’s former crew, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, vying for a 3rd consecutive Tremendous Bowl win since Hill’s departure, he was requested about his relationship with quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
“Pat, he’s the GOAT of our period,” Hill stated. “Me and him (are) brothers exterior of soccer. Clearly, we have been teammates, however I really feel like, when he got here into the league, our careers grew collectively.”
Hill additionally made public feedback after Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles known as him out to comply with by on racing by holding up an indication saying, “Tyreek might by no means.”
“He’s simply doing that for clout,” Hill stated. “Should you’re going to name me out, go forward and end the job. Don’t be certainly one of them dudes that’ll throw a sucker punch and go away. Let’s go and get this race over with.”
Hill stated he might race Lyles subsequent week and simply do it on YouTube with out sponsorships to see who wins, however he insinuated Lyles needs so as to add too many stipulations into any contract.
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