Stephen A. Smith blasts Tyreek Hill for giving up on the Miami Dolphins

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Stephen A. Smith blasts Tyreek Hill for giving up on the Miami Dolphins... Leroy reads between the lines and gives his take on the rant. Tyreek's teammates vocalize their disappointment with his comments.

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00:00Stephen A. Smith ripped the holy hell out of Tyree Killia, so you want to hear it?

00:04Um, I can imagine, I can imagine what, like, I tried to look at it from my own perspective.

00:12Stephen A is just looking at it from a stand on his, so I can imagine what he said.

00:16What do you picture Stephen A. Smith on a high horse or a soap box?

00:21Soap box. He wants everybody looking at him in a glass house. Oh yeah. But, but so I tried

00:27to, like, I tried to give it from a player's perspective without just standing on a soap

00:34box and ripping him. I tried to explain why it was an issue. Whereas Stephen A is just

00:41going to attack the comments and whatever. You want to hear what he said? Sure. Here's

00:46Stephen A. Smith. May I go first, fellas? Sure. Go ahead. Oh, hell to the no. Stay your

00:54ass right there. You want to chirp, right? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I wanted to go first.

00:59I wanted the non-football guy to go first cause I wanted to defer to y'all, but I wanted

01:02to lay it out for you Shea and for you Swaggoo. Um, ain't this the same Tyree Killia? Now

01:09listen, we know he all world. He's my favorite receiver. The cheetah is the cheetah. However,

01:14wasn't that the same dude that said Tua was comparable to Patrick Mahomes? Ain't that

01:23that same dude? Ain't that that same dude that swore? I mean, swore up in there. Watch

01:28what we do. Ain't that that dude? That's the same dude. And then long before, long before

01:34we could look at Tua and look at the concussions or even after, did they roll up into Kansas

01:39City last, last year in the playoffs and we knew they were done the second we heard the

01:43meteorologist give us the weather report because these brothers can't wait. They can't play

01:47in weather that's worse than 40 degrees. Ain't that the same team? Correct me, Shea? Swaggoo

01:53am I lying? Ain't that the same team? Oh, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, the same

01:58Tyree Kill, who got his bag now, restructured his deal for Miami. Got his bag now. I don't

02:03want to hear about your family because your family is when it comes to the money, not

02:07the game. That's you. That's not your family. That's you. That's you Tyree Kill. This is

02:12the same brother. Tua had a 17 starts last year. This year he got 11. This year he was

02:18targeted 171 times last year. 123 this year. Receptions 119 last year. 81 this year. Receiving

02:27yards 1799 last year. 959 this year. That's a 38% drop in receptions. That's damn near

02:36800 yards. It is an 800 yard drop in receiving yards. And by the way, his reception yards

02:42dipped from 112 to 56.4, which is his fewest since his rookie season. Life's a little bit

02:50different when you ain't with Patrick Mahomes. We tried to tell you. We don't want to hear

02:55about no family now. You got your bag. That ain't family, bro. Family's the bag. Once

03:01you get the bag, family's taken care of. This about you. Recognizing life is a little bit

03:08different when Patrick Mahomes ain't throwing you the football.

03:10There you go. Stephen A. Smith. First take. There's a couple of points that I would make.

03:18He's had his two best years with Tyreek. So being with a Tua. So saying being with

03:29Patrick Mahomes and life ain't been, life has been better. Okay. This year he would

03:36have had a thousand yards if he caught the damn ball. That's true. So, so let's, let's not. So

03:41let's stop that. Um, you can't talk about your situation and then talk about, you ain't working

03:50a week before that. That's why you, you know, I think we ain't on the same page.

03:56I think that the criticism for Tyree kill that is fair is yes. He is obviously they've been the

04:01best offensive weapon they've had since Ricky Williams. They haven't had anybody like him.

04:04He's been incredible. He was voted the best player, but those key drops in big games,

04:09I mean, just piled up and then you were in a game that all right, you probably weren't

04:14going to get into the playoffs, but you weren't dead yet. You were looking up at the scoreboard

04:18and you said, nah, no boss. I'm out. I just think that, you know, and I said this yesterday

04:26and I mean this, I think what he said and how it built to that had more to do with his frustration

04:36and less to do with how he really felt. And I said yesterday, I make nothing of it. People

04:41say some dumb stuff when they're mad and angry about the situation. We're human. He's human.

04:49Right. Now the problem is, is because it's in front of everybody. He ain't going to be able

04:56to live, you know, live through it. Like maybe we can't, like if Steven says something ridiculous

05:03or somebody on TV says something ridiculous, when did they come out the next day with,

05:08well, I'm going to start the show with, you know, I didn't mean to hurt anybody.

05:13Right. But they attacked an athlete. Like the same thing, KB, you could tell the way that was

05:20building, the way that interview was building, I could say, he's getting ready to say something

05:25ridiculous. Right. It was building that way. We all knew it. So now that you heard it. So I'm

05:32going to wait a little bit of time. Okay. I'm going to wait before I think he meant those things.

05:40That's it. Okay. Now my biggest issue, don't tell me how much of a competitor you are

05:48and then not go in the game. That's it. That's the only problem I have with him. All that other

05:54stuff. A lot of times you say things right. To try to justify your feelings. Right. So him saying

06:04I want out and follow it up. What I got to do was best for me and my family. He's trying to

06:09justify saying that, but come on, you like, at some point you got to look at who he's been since

06:19he's been here and then take those words and say, that's not really something he has ever said

06:25before. I'm going to give it a break. And then I'm going to give him a little time to come back

06:31to it. He did it. And then whether it was trolling or tongue in cheek though,

06:34he did let the whole thing linger about that. It's time for me to go coach. You know, like he let that,

06:39you know, he let that, that fester, whether, however he meant it commas, no commas.

06:43Like he just let that be a thing that just sat there. And you know, I thought that the whole

06:49thing with him here is that, you know, he was supposed to be a captain. He was supposed to

06:53grow up a little bit. And again, it's just like, all right, I guess, I guess some people just

06:57aren't capable of growing up down here. I don't know. I don't know what the deal is. Some people

07:01just don't got that in them or you're not tremendously talented. You're not old or

07:05counterpoint. Here's what I would say. Coaches, players, organizations,

07:14your best players, aren't your best leaders. Okay. That's a fact. So stop it with that.

07:24Okay. As great as D-Wade was, D-Wade was, he wasn't the holder of heat culture. It was UD.

07:32Right. And there's nothing wrong with that. Like your best players aren't always your captains.

07:39Right. Perfect example. When Tua said, I don't want to be captain. Right. He understood.

07:47Like I, at this point in time where I am on this team can not be the voice of this team.

07:56Let me earn it. And so now he's there, but like, yeah, man, I don't, I don't make anything of it.

08:06I'm going to wait. Now, if he doubles down on it, okay. Here was a Zach sealer. This was him being

08:14asked about the Tyree kill comments. Man's man, Zach sealer.

08:19What was their reaction to Tyree kill? Yes. I seen you open the door for each future.

08:25Yeah, I saw him. Yeah. You know, I think everyone has their own voice and if that's what he wants

08:31to say, that's what he wants to say. I have all the respect for him as a player, but that's how

08:36he feels. That's how he feels. So we leave it at that. Is it disappointing that when you guys

08:40plan hard to the end, he's not in the first sign of first, he's like, I'm out of here.

08:46I don't know. I don't know how the game went. I was on defense and I wasn't watching the

08:50offense. I'm making a correction. So I don't know. I've been watching it. I'll be honest with you.

08:54But yeah, obviously it's, it's a knee jerk reaction. That's a, that's what happens.

08:59And I don't know what happened. I'm not going to speak for him or speak on that. That's his

09:02own decision. But I know as a team that we need to stay focused this year on making sure everyone's

09:07here and making sure we're on time and we're focused on, you know, winning it all next year

09:11and making the corrections from this season. I'm going into OTAs and camp this year.

09:16There you go. Zach Seeler yesterday, uh, speaking to the media.

09:20I'm no translator, but it kind of sounds like if Tyreek Hill wants back in that locker room,

09:24you got to beat Zach Seeler in wrestling. I just, I just think that, I just think that

09:32I was always worried. I was never worried about what I said to the media.

09:37Never could care less. You mean nothing to me. I did care about what I said and having to go

09:45back in that locker room. Cause those are the guys you're with every day. So everything that

09:51I ever said about every situation that I was ever in on a football field or off the football field,

09:58always kept that in mind that at the end of the day, I got to go back in that locker room

10:03and deal with guys that I have a lot more respect for than the person I was talking to after a game.

10:09No disrespect to the media. I'm just saying, that's the reality of when you hear guys talk

10:15about what you go through as a team, that's the respect you want. That's the respect you need to,

10:22to, to play the game. Not the respect of somebody who's asking questions after watching the game.

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