Tyreek Hill makes cryptic post on future with Dolphins

Tyreek Hill made a cryptic post on social media on Wednesday, drawing into question his NFL and Miami Dolphins (6-8) future.

“It’s time for me to go coach,” Hill wrote on X.

Now, punctuation matters. The way Hill typed it out, it appears he means actually going into the coaching profession rather than sending a message to head coach Mike McDaniel. Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater traded his pads for a headset, coaching at his alma mater this past season. He led Miami (Fla.) Northwestern to a state title. Now, Bridgewater wants back in the NFL.

As for Hill, he still remains one of the league’s most exciting players despite how tough the 2024 season has been for he and the Dolphins. The 30-year-old has hauled in 67 receptions for 805 yards and five touchdowns in 14 games — solid numbers, though well off the pace from his prolific 2023 campaign.

Hill caught 119 passes for a league-leading 1,799 yards and 13 scores last season, finishing runner-up in the AP Offensive Player of the Year Award voting. Playing without quarterback Tua Tagovailoa for a portion of the season hasn’t helped, though his performances have continued to be hit or miss.

Tyreek Hill, Dolphins in midst of down year

Hill reeled in just two of his seven targets for 36 yards in this past Sunday’s loss to the Houston Texans (9-5), a game in which Tagovailoa had three interceptions. McDaniel said both players took the blame for the turnovers.

“The bad news first is that there were in fact three interceptions,” McDaniel said Monday, via Pro Football Talk. “That’s the bad news. The good news is both Tyreek and Tua have been very accountable, and both say it’s their fault. That’s what you want. It’s the second-best to not having the discussion at all because it didn’t happen, but I think it’s very important as you move forward within the NFL season to prepare for the next opponent that guys, your whole locker room, is pointing the thumb, not the finger. … And the best way to ensure that is your captains are handling themselves that way.

“I think, I hear both of them, the things that they could have done and I think that’s a — I can let them argue over that responsibility because at the end of the day, the responsibility of the ball goes to everybody and the only way that you’re going to make sure that that mistake or those mistakes don’t happen again, is if you have accountability to have standards of play that don’t allow for that. So I was happy with their response to the situation because what you don’t want are people talking about what the other person could do, because they’re not the other person, that doesn’t help what we’re trying to do.”