Tua: Hill working to regain trust of Fins players

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is inactive rebuilding his narration with his teammates this offseason aft his comments astatine the extremity of the 2024 season.

Hill removed himself from the Dolphins' regular play finale against the New York Jets earlier suggesting to reporters aft the crippled that he'd similar to play shot elsewhere; Dolphins wide manager Chris Grier said Hill ne'er requested a commercialized and Hill apologized for and walked backmost his comments successful February.

Speaking aft the Dolphins' archetypal grooming campy signifier Wednesday, backmost Tua Tagovailoa said gathering that narration backmost up isn't needfully a elemental process, but Hill is putting successful the enactment to bash so.

"It's not conscionable with me, it's with a batch of the guys. I'm not the lone 1 that heard that. You guys aren't the lone radical that heard that," Tagovailoa said. "A batch of radical that travel football, that travel the Miami Dolphins, that travel Tyreek that are fans of his -- everyone has seen that. So, erstwhile you accidental thing similar that, you don't conscionable travel backmost from that with, 'hey, my bad.' You got to enactment that narration up, you've got to physique everything backmost up again.

"Everybody makes mistakes. It's conscionable immoderate people, they're successful a spotlight and their deals get pushed retired much than immoderate others. So conscionable got to chopped him immoderate grace."

"He's moving connected himself, he's moving connected the things that helium says helium wants to get amended with and bash amended on. So that's the archetypal measurement to me, and truthful I commend him for doing that."

Last play was tumultuous for the Dolphins arsenic a whole, and Hill was nary exception. He recorded conscionable 959 yards and six touchdowns connected 81 catches past play -- a crisp diminution from the consecutive 1,700-yard seasons helium posted successful his archetypal 2 years with the team.

Miami missed the playoffs, marking the archetypal clip Hill has missed the playoffs successful his nine-year NFL career; helium since explained that helium spoke retired of vexation and apologized to Tagovailoa for his comments. A three-time squad captain, Hill said this offseason that helium would person to gain his captaincy again this year, and it was up to his teammates to find whether helium deserves it.

Hill besides said he's matured this offseason and Tagovailoa elaborated connected the receiver's maturation.

"I deliberation there's a batch much vulnerability with Tyreek. He's conversating a batch much with the guys, not conscionable astir football, but astir things disconnected the field," Tagovailoa said. "Being susceptible with immoderate of the things that radical cognize astir his idiosyncratic beingness and things of that nature. And I deliberation that's the archetypal measurement to him. Building existent relationships and a existent transportation with a batch of the guys successful there.

"Everyone knows what helium tin bash connected the field. Everyone respects what helium tin bash connected the field, but I deliberation he's inactive trying to fig things retired for himself arsenic good ... Everybody makes mistakes. It's conscionable immoderate people, they're successful a spotlight and their deals get pushed retired much than immoderate others. So conscionable got to chopped him immoderate grace. I mean, that's our teammate. We emotion him, but arsenic a person, if you get to cognize him, I deliberation you'd emotion him too."

Linebacker Jordyn Brooks said helium didn't judge immoderate spot was mislaid with Hill, but that this clip of twelvemonth is for gathering and strengthening relationships.

Hill told reporters Tuesday that helium wanted to centralize his absorption connected shot this season, alternatively than immoderate extracurriculars.

"This full full offseason, I've been busting my tail," Hill said. "I privation to spot what it looks similar whenever I absorption conscionable connected football, and I conscionable absorption connected myself and family. Because I consciousness similar I truly haven't been giving the champion mentation of me, of Tyreek, my full full career. I've ever been trying to beryllium here, beryllium there.

"But maine being capable to dilatory down a small bit, bid and bust my process for myself and past besides for this assemblage and this team, I consciousness similar it'll beryllium worthy it. So, I conscionable privation to spot what that mentation of myself looks like, truthful I'm looking guardant to it."