Can't trust Tyreek Hill to be a leader for the Miami Dolphins after last season

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Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill opened up about his new mentality heading into the 2025 season today but Hoch, Crowder and Solana are having a hard time believing him after how last year finished.

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00:00Any of you see Tyreek Hill's comments from training camp today?

00:05Okay, so he shared his mentality for the season.

00:10Quote, I want to see what it looks like when I just focus on football,

00:13on myself and family.

00:15And he went on to say, I feel like I haven't given the best version of Tyreek

00:19my whole entire career.

00:21And he said, there's a chance to do something special.

00:24Feels like players have matured.

00:26He's matured, even McDaniel, Coach Mike McDaniel, has matured.

00:32You know, it's funny there, what jumps out at me,

00:35because I've gone through this, obviously, with different professions.

00:38But as you get older, you have these moments where you realize,

00:43yeah, you know what, this is going to require more effort on my part.

00:46That's an older player who had the most incredible talent for a while.

00:52And so he could do whatever he wants, whenever he wants,

00:56because he had Patrick Mahomes zinging him the ball,

00:59and he was the most talented receiver out there.

01:02All of a sudden, you get a little bit older and you go, you know what?

01:04I really need to focus on football.

01:07I need to cut out the distractions.

01:08Now, do I think he's going to cut out the distractions?

01:11I don't, just based on past record.

01:13But that sounds to me like someone who's getting older

01:17and recognizing they may be losing.

01:20And when I say losing a step,

01:22I don't mean he's a slow receiver now lumbering down the field.

01:26But that sounds like a moment where you go,

01:31hmm, this doesn't seem as easy as it once did.

01:36It's crazy you bring up that.

01:38We interviewed CeCe Sabathia this morning.

01:42And he said that.

01:45He was like, man, 17 years old, I'm throwing 98.

01:47And he was like, all these old pitchers are trying to tell me,

01:50hey, work on the movement, work on the cutter, work on all this.

01:53He was like, no, I'm going to just go out and throw 98.

01:55That's what I'm going to do.

01:56And then we'll figure it out on the backside.

01:59And then if you remember later in his career,

02:01it was a big deal because he started throwing more sidearm

02:04and working the pitch count and all that stuff.

02:08Same thing.

02:09To your point, Hawk, I don't want to be pessimistic.

02:11Tyreek is 10 years in the game.

02:14He's 31 years old.

02:15We know the track record.

02:18You're not going to the police will never be called to your house again.

02:21I hope so.

02:22But you have a track record.

02:26On his viral postgame interview last year where he said,

02:29I'm out and I got to do what's best for me.

02:32Everybody remembers.

02:33Quote, in those moments, I need to be a better leader.

02:37That's without question.

02:40But he needs to be a better leader.

02:41If you're a team leader and he's supposed to be, you can't do that.

02:46But he's too emotional.

02:49Like, that's all emotion he's talking.

02:51It's not rationale.

02:52It's emotion.

02:53It's why there's more, you know, more people fighting college than Publix in Davey.

02:58Because grown people will look at the situation and be like, I'm good.

03:01You get college, you get all upset.

03:03Yeah.

03:04Oh, you're disrespecting me.

03:05Rah, and go slap somebody.

03:07Hopefully he has matured.

03:09You said the word mature.

03:10Like, I hope so.

03:11But it took me 20 years to figure out I don't have to slap somebody if they call me a bad word.

03:18I don't trust a single thing Tyreek Hill says.

03:22I don't either.

03:24I'm with you.

03:25I wish I did.

03:26He lost me that final game.

03:29He lost me on that one.

03:31I thought that was such a Bush League way to end the season.

03:35But I get what you're saying.

03:36It's emotion.

03:37He knows the Chiefs are going on to another playoff run and probably a Super Bowl.

03:42He knows he's got to pack up his belongings once again.

03:45And he let emotion get the best of them.

03:48But I had given him the benefit of the doubt for a while.

03:51And now I just got to see it.

03:53And I hope he has a breakout season.

03:55And I hope, like you say, it's just like football, football, football.

04:00And he's out there.

04:01And he's catching passes.

04:02And we're talking about a 2,000-yard season again.

04:04That's what I want.

04:06But I'm with Solana.

04:07I got to see it at this point.

04:09I just can't follow blindly.

04:11I'm with you.

04:12Show me business.

04:13Yeah.

04:13I just think it's easy to uphold that line where he's trolling and then he's serious.

04:22He played that very well.

04:23And it was easy when things were going well in the first three years.

04:27Last year, the first true sense of adversity we saw from this team, I thought it showed us true colors.

04:35Like, who he really is.

04:36And, yeah.

04:39I hope he proves me wrong.

04:40But I don't trust him.

04:42Every year.

04:43Like, it was some Dallas Cowboy lineman they interviewed and they were making fun of on ESPN yesterday.

04:49What's the Dallas Cowboys going to do?

04:51We're going to win the Super Bowl.

04:53Like, every team right now thinks you're going to win the Super Bowl.

04:55You're supposed to say the right thing.

04:56You've been with your parents.

04:57You've been at home with your kids.

04:59You've been back home hanging out with family.

05:01Oh, yeah.

05:02Oh, we're going to mature and be great this year.

05:03It sounds good.

05:04But now there's going to be, to your point, Solana, there's going to be adversity that comes up.

05:09And is he going to stand up in the middle of the locker room and hold everyone else accountable, including himself?

05:14I don't see it.

05:15I'm with y'all.

05:16I don't see it.

05:17I haven't seen it.

05:18I don't see it until I see it.

05:20You have to prove to me that you're that guy.

05:22Not tell me you're that guy on a random Tuesday in July.

05:25And, by the way, those words, like, people hold you to that.

05:29Ask Chris Greer about his offensive line, his seemingly innocuous offensive line comments last season.

05:37Ask LeBron in the moment of celebration about not two, not three, not four, not five.

05:44Like, people will hold you to those words.

05:48Who said that?

05:50You said that.

05:51Huh?

05:51Well, the only other, like, Darren Waller was introduced today.

05:56Alec Ingold spoke.

05:58I can't imagine there's a lot of fullbacks talking across training camps in the NFL.

06:02No slight to him, but, like, come on.

06:04They asked him, like, what do you think about the diminished expectations for this team?

06:08And he said, I don't give a bleep.

06:10But he said the actual word.

06:11Minka Fitzpatrick was supposed to have his first media availability today since the trade.

06:19It got pushed back to a later date.

06:23Let me warn y'all something about Minka.

06:28He's not a charismatic, talking, laughing type human.

06:32He's a very serious human being.

06:35As long as he can play defense.

06:41Go get me nine interceptions.

06:44I love you to death.

06:45Yeah.

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