MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Is Tyreek Hill the perfect troll, or is Tyreek Hill simply tone deaf to Dolphins fans?

I think it’s both, but unfortunately more of the latter.

That bothers me a little.

What matters more is that it greatly bothers and agitates a large contingent of Dolphins fans.

Hill, the Dolphins’ dynamic wide receiver, is the Dolphins’ best player and, most likely, a future Hall of Famer.

Typically, I’ve been pro-Tyreek on and off the field.

He’s got a good sense of humor.

But he’s gone too far this time. Again.

His cryptic tweet posted on X on Wednesday morning, “It’s time for me to go coach” trivializes the entire season and mocks those who care about the team.

Fans thought Tyreek, who had his massive contract restructured in the offseason, wanted to leave.

If I was in that locker room, or that organization, I’d be upset with Tyreek.

However, Tyreek said Thursday the tweet was truly about him coaching some day.

“I ain’t meant like, I want to get traded or I want to leave Miami,” Tyreek explained Thursday in the locker room. “Like, 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.”

I told Tyreek there’s a large contingent of fans still hurting from that emotional 20-12 loss at Houston and they don’t want to see his trolling.

“I get it, man,” he replied. “Look, I get it, man. I want to win, we want to win just as bad as everybody else. We’re out here busting our tail each and every day just to get over the hump.

“At the end of the day, I’m going to be me. I’m going to have fun. I’m going to laugh. I’m going to have a good time. That’s just my personality. I feel like I can’t dwell or be mad because at the end of the day, I’ve got to home to my wife and my daughter, you know what I’m saying? So I’ve got be able to switch hats.”

For the record, I didn’t find any players that said they’re upset with Tyreek (there was, however, one player who laughed and chose not to comment).

However, a contingent of fans are mad.

Fun is fun. However, there’s a time and a place for fun.

This wasn’t it.

People care about the 2024 season.

People give a damn.

Coaches. Players. Fans.

For Tyreek to have fun at these people’s expense is insulting and uncaring.

Yes, Tyreek issued another tweet later Wednesday saying, “tweet blew more than i expected” and another that said, “got yall exactly how i want” meaning his troll job went just as planned.

But enough is enough.

Good comedy is often edgy. I get that.

This troll job was poorly timed and disrespectful.

Defensive lineman Calais Campbell, perhaps the most respected player in the locker room, said he’d never try to change Tyreek. He said there’s no reason to talk to Tyreek and ask him to tone down his trolling.

“Being a troll is just something he likes to do,” Campbell said. “I think the fans have got to just take it for what it is. He’s just being a troll and joking around.”

Running back Raheem Mostert had a similar opinion. He started smiling as soon as I mentioned Tyreek and the tweet. I couldn’t even get the question out of my mouth. Mostert enjoys the entertainment value of Tyreek’s trolls.

“You mentioned it and I started chuckling, right?” he said. “It’s pretty cool to see that type of stuff. He’s just being him at the end of the day. He’s a funny guy. So, I thought it was humorous and I really took a liking to it. I was like, ‘Man, that’s ‘Reek once again.’ He’s always bringing his point of views, but I do honestly think that he does want to coach at some point in his career.”

The story was the same from running back De’Von Achane. He supports Tyreek’s freedom of speech.

“At the end of the day, I’m pretty sure that he doesn’t care what any fans are talking about, bro,” Achane said. “It’s his page, he can do what he wants to do on there.”

This is my fourth time writing about Tyreek’s off-field antics in the last 12 months.

I like that Tyreek likes to have fun.

I appreciate Tyreek’s role as a troll.

And this time he got us.

He really, really got us.

This was an expert troll job by an expert troll.

Most times, I don’t even pay attention to Tyreek on social media.

Others tell me what he posts, just as it happened Wednesday morning.

I wasn’t aware of the troll job he did in October in the wake of the injury to Kansas City wide receiver Rashee Rice. It was pointed out to me.

After Rice was deemed out for the season, Tyreek tweeted, “woke up to trade news exciting,” he tweeted

After being questioned by reporters and saying he wanted to stay in Miami, Tyreek issued a response on social media.

“I love trolling you nut cases” he posted on X.

That Houston loss was painful.

Granted, this is only sports, not life, death, health, poverty, homelessness or anything along those lines.

But many fans, some of which who have been waiting 24 years to see a playoff victory, are in pain.

No one wants to deal with Tyreek’s trolling.

I think someone on the Dolphins roster should speak to Hill respectfully and let him know this particular episode wasn’t OK.

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