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Tyreek Hill – September 19, 2024 Download PDF version

Thursday, September 19, 2024

WR Tyreek Hill

(Your reaction obviously to what happened to QB Tua Tagovailoa, and how is he doing right now?) – “Tua is doing great. I’m sure y’all done asked everybody in the locker room that, but he’s doing amazing. How the locker room is going – the biggest thing that we want is to make sure that Tua is all right. Once I called him the day after or whatever, I heard his voice, heard that he was in good spirits, I was cool, man. Because to me this (expletive) is bigger than football. Our life is bigger than football. We’re also individuals with have families, we’ve got stuff going on. Once I heard that, it was cool.”

(What’s the area you point to collectively as a group that you have to do better when teams try to take away you and WR Jaylen Waddle with two high safeties or whatever defense that they are playing?) – “It’s a collective unit out there at the end of the day. I can’t sit up here and point no finger at nobody. We all got to be better. We’ve got a great group of leaders on this team on both sides of the ball. We got a heck of a football coach, so no excuses from none of us. That’s the way I look at it.”  

(What does QB Skylar Thompson do well that has you encouraged about these next few weeks with him?) – “He’s a little bit faster than Tua (Tagovailoa), so I’m a little bit excited about that. (laughter) Skylar (Thompson), he does a great job of extending plays. As you seen, man, when he came in (in 2022) when we played against Buffalo, he did a good job of stretching the ball down field and giving them a different look. He has some great qualities to himself. He’s fearless, he’s not afraid of anything and he’s a real competitor. I love that.”

(Everybody has to do their 1/11th, that’s what you guys always say. Without QB Tua Tagovailoa in there, does somebody have to do more than their 1/11th, or does that rule stay the same?) – “Stay the same. At the end of the day, you don’t want to do anything outside of your job, because at the end of the day you’re going to be held responsible for it, and you’re going to be held accountable for it. This is why we practice. Do what you’re coached, trust your fundamentals and techniques and you’ll be all right. When it’s time to make a play, it’s going to happen.”

(Mel Kiper said today they should ban two-high safeties in the NFL. Your thoughts on that?) – “(laughter) I will say this; it does take the fun out of the game, but at the same time people are trying to win games. It’s up to us to try to figure it out. That’s why people love football because of how it’s played and all kind of things can be stopped and stuff like this, that’s the beauty in it. It’s our job to come inside this building and figure out how do we get this not ran against us. Our coaches have been doing a great job all week, putting the ball in Skylar’s hands and trusting him this whole week. I’m really interested to see how this game plays out.”

(How likely is it that if you guys pound the ball against that two-high safety look that eventually they’ll have to play that eight-man front. Is that likely do you think?) – “Yeah, I really do. I’m really hyped up to see how we pound the ball with a guy that weighs 160 pounds. (laughter) I’m really excited about that. (De’Von) Achane is different. For him to have the amount of carries that he had last week and then still be able to do some of the things, still hold up, he’s a tremendous young player in this game. I feel like if we continue to kind of lean on him, because right now he is the spark of the offense and we need that. We need that, like anything that we can get right now. Continue to lean on him and we’ll get though this hole. Every team goes through it; I was on great teams that went through it. It’s all about how we respond to it. We don’t point fingers, trust the process, get in the film room as much as we can and figure it out.”

(The QB Tua Tagovailoa situation overshadowed last week, but you had mentioned that you were planning on announcing something in terms of police outreach. Has there been anything that’s come of that yet, or no?) – “Yeah, there’s been some small steps moved forward. Right now, I want to do a good job of keeping that private. When everything’s happened, it’s going to happen. We’ll kind of lean on you guys to get the word out and spread the message, but right now it’s just small conversations. It’s almost like contract negotiations. (laughter)”

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