Watch out, Mike McDaniel.
Tyreek Hill clarified that his cryptic “It’s time for me to go coach” post earlier this week expressed his desire to eventually coach one day — not any potential frustration amid the Dolphins’ 6-8 season.
“Ya’ll know what’s crazy, bro? I just looking at stuff and I just tweet. No grammar. I be needing some grammar corrections and everything else,” Hill said Thursday. “What I meant was, when I say it’s time for me to go coach, meaning that you see guys like Teddy Bridgewater, you see guys like Michael Vick getting these head coaching jobs, it’s like, bro, I want to be a coach also when I’m done playing, you know what I’m saying? That’s all I meant by it, I didn’t mean it like I want to get traded or I want to leave Miami.”
Hill sent the internet into a tizzy Wednesday when he posted his “coach” tweet, since it left open plenty of room for interpretation.
He even acknowledged in a later post that “Tweet blew more than I expected.”
Some wondered if Hill, who is not private with his emotions, wanted out of Miami.
There are growing concerns about the team’s ceiling under its third-year coach in McDaniel and Hill is having his worst statistical year with the franchise.
Some have wondered if the Dolphins could make a coaching change if things end “badly” this season.
Hill enters a Week 16 home game against the 49ers with 67 catches for 805 yards and four scores, well below the 1,700-yard plateau he topped in each of his first two years in Miami.
He clarified Thursday that he is happy to be a Dolphin.
“I’m in a great situation here. I love the guys here, I love this organization, they obviously changed me and my family’s life forever. I’m in a great spot. I’m happy,” Hill said. “I wish we were playing better ball, but at the end of the day, I feel like when I tweet something it’s not always something about football, it’s about seeing these other guys succeed in other areas like Deion Sanders and stuff like that.”
Hill’s contract runs through the 2026 season and previously said he would like to retire with the team.
Once he hangs up the cleats, it seems he could try to join the ranks of fellow NFL stars who have transitioned into coaching.
Sanders has reinvigorated a previously dormant Colorado team, Vick has been tabbed to lead Norfolk State and Bridgewater led a Florida high school team to a state title.
It’s fair to wonder how he would handle a player who tweets cryptic messages midseason.
