The Miami Dolphins locker room still hasn't gotten over the fact that Tyreek Hill said he was done being a part of the team. After learning this, Colin Cowherd believes it is time for them to move on.
The Miami Dolphins head into the season as one of the league’s most uncertain teams. For the past few years, their toxic culture has been apparent across the NFL, and this might not be the year they turn things around. CBS Sports’ Cody Benjamin describes the situation as “a feud waiting to happen.”
“Except this isn't a one-year issue with Miami. Set aside the iffy football decisions, like Grier's inability to field a stable offensive line or properly manage high-profile salaries over the course of a nine-year tenure featuring exactly zero playoff victories. Just from a culture perspective, Miami has been the NFL equivalent of an accident -- a controversy, a feud, a drama -- waiting to happen,” Benjamin wrote.
After the final game of last season, Tyreek Hill made it known he was done being a Dolphin. Since OTAs, he’s been trying to prove he still has what it takes for his team.
On the first day of training camp, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa admitted the locker room was still affected by Hill’s comments.
“It's not just with me, it's with a lot of the guys. I'm not the only one that heard that. You guys aren't the only people that heard that," Tagovailoa said. "A lot of people that follow football, that follow the Miami Dolphins, that follow Tyreek, that are fans of his — everyone has seen that. So, when you say something like that, you don't just come back from that with, 'Hey, my bad.' You got to work that relationship up; you've got to build everything back up again.”
In response to this situation, The Herd’s Colin Cowherd believes it’s time for Miami to move on from Hill.
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“There’s some hand-holding here going on and my take — I’d move off Tyreek Hill. Someone will bite. He’s a very, very good player, but you eventually get to a point of how much is it worth,” Cowherd said. “When Tua has to come out and go to a podium and dance around the uncomfortable truth, I think it is time to move on in Miami.”
That perspective is hard to ignore. When your starting quarterback publicly acknowledges locker room tension, the issue often doesn’t go away until the source is removed. Keeping Hill might do more harm than good. He still has significant trade value, and moving him could also help the Dolphins’ salary cap situation.
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