Tua Tagovailoa can forgive, however he received’t quickly overlook.
The Dolphins quarterback revealed Wednesday that star receiver Tyreek Hill is working to rebuild relationships along with his teammates after he shockingly declared, “I’m out,” on the finish of final season earlier than strolling again on the startling remarks.
“When you say something like that, you don’t just come back from that with a, ‘Hey, my bad,’” Tagovailoa informed reporters at coaching camp, in line with CBS Miami’s Mike Cugno and NFL Community’s Cameron Wolfe.
“You gotta work that relationship up, you gotta build everything up again, and it’s still a work in progress. Not just for me, but for everybody. Like I said, he’s working on himself, he’s working on the things he says he wants to get better with and do better on, so, that’s the first step to me and so, I commend him for doing that.”
Since arriving in Miami in 2022 following a commerce with the Chiefs, Hill, 31, has established a rapport with Tagovailoa, 27, typically going to bat for the previous first-round choose towards Dolphins detractors.
The Professional Bowl wideout eclipsed 1,700 receiving yards in his first two seasons with the Dolphins and reached the playoffs each instances, falling quick within the wild-card spherical.
Though there was optimism coming into the 2024 marketing campaign because the Dolphins prolonged Tagovailoa on a four-year, $212.4 million deal, issues shortly spiraled because the common season received underway.
Tagovailoa was sidelined for a number of weeks after experiencing one other mid-game concussion in a Week 2 loss to the Payments. The QB suffered two concussions throughout the 2022 season.
The losses continued to pile up coming into Week 8, when Tagovailoa returned, however late-season pushes weren’t sufficient to bolster Miami’s playoff hopes because the crew wrapped the yr at 8-9.
Hill, who appeared in all 17 video games and fell simply shy of 1,000 receiving yards (959), stirred controversy after the crew’s season-finale loss to the Jets on Jan. 5 by suggesting he needed out of South Seaside.
“What y’all had heard at the end of the season was frustration,” Hill stated after the remarks went viral. “I’ve been winning my whole life, bruh. Y’all don’t understand, I bust my ass every day. I deserve to feel like that; I deserve to have some kind of opinion.”
Hill later doubled down on his adoration for Tagovailoa with a “public apology tour.”
“Tua is my guy, he always will be my guy no matter what,” Hill stated in February on “Up & Adams.” “He understands my frustration. We all want to win. Tua he’s another competitor, he’s a hell of a competitor, a lot of people don’t know that. He’s a winner, he’s consistent, so I’m looking forward to us continuing to build our relationship. And this is my public apology tour. I love you, bro.”
It’s been a controversial 12 months for Hill, who was detained by police earlier than a Week 1 win over the Jaguars final September. He was later embroiled in a home dispute along with his estranged spouse, Keeta Hill, who filed for divorce in April.
Hill practiced at coaching camp Wednesday because the Dolphins look forward to the upcoming season.
Once they take the sphere in Week 1 towards the Colts on Sept. 7, it’ll be with out cornerback Jalen Ramsey and tight finish Jonnu Smith, who had been dealt to the Steelers in a June blockbuster, with Miami buying security Minkah Fitzpatrick in return.
