TAKE THAT!
Tyreek Hill, who dissed the Jets and took his talents to Miami this offseason, can run. But he could not hide on Sunday.
Everyone knows the Dolphins speedy receiver is a game-breaker waiting to take the top off of opposing defenses. He entered the day with a league-high 477 receiving yards. But in the Jets 40-17 win over the Dolphins at MetLife Stadium, the Jets defense broke Hill, who caught just seven passes for 47 yards.
In fact, Jets defensive lineman Quinnen Williams, who lists at 6-foot-3, 303 pounds, nearly broke the 5-10, 191-pound Hill in half when Hill attempted to tackle him after Williams tried to score after recovering a fourth-quarter fumble.
Williams did to Hill what every player wearing a Jets uniform has wanted to do since Hill publicly dismissed the Jets when the Chiefs traded him to the Dolphins and not the Jets, who were also in hot pursuit of him.
At his introductory news conference as a Dolphin, when Hill was asked if he was close to choosing the Jets, he replied, “Who? The Jets? Nah, man. I knew I was going to pick Miami, no matter what.”
Several Jets players didn’t think any of it was very funny.
“We just played with a chip on our shoulder after that whole, ‘Jets, who?’ thing,” defensive tackle John Franklin-Myers said after the game. “I think that rubbed everybody the wrong way. We all saw the interviews of him saying, ‘Jets who?’ ’’
Last week, Hill backtracked from his earlier remarks, saying he was “very close” to picking the Jets, adding that the deciding factor was Florida’s lack of state income tax.
Franklin-Myers wasn’t buying into the backtrack.
“The message is still the message,’’ he said. “You can laugh and shrug it off, but I didn’t like that, and the team didn’t like that.’’
Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley said he had a feeling all along in the offseason that Hill was using the Jets as leverage to get more money from Miami.
“That’s how it works,’’ Mosley told The Post. “As far as me taking [it] personal, if he didn’t want to be with us, that’s fine with me; we don’t want you here. If you wanted to be with us, we gladly would have taken him.
“He went to a divisional opponent. He thought he’d have a better chance to win there, da, da, da, da da. Who cares? We’re worried about what we have in our room, and today, we got the job done.’’