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Noah Lyles: Tyreek Hill ‘chasing clout’ by claiming he’s faster

Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill recently said he could beat Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles in a race. Noah Lyles recently responded.

At one point, Lyles couldn’t remember Hill’s name.

What was the name of that cheetah from football again?” Lyles said. “I can’t remember his name. What’s the name of that football player who thinks he’s fast?”

Lyles was reminded of the name. Appears on the Nightcap podcast with Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco, Lyles responded to Hill’s claim that he could beat the gold medalist in a race.

Tyreek is just chasing influence,” Lyles said. “The guy — when someone is fast, he says he wants to race them. If he really wanted to race people, he would have shown up like DK Metcalf did.”

Last year, Metcalf won the 60-meter dash at the USA Track and Field Masters Indoor Championship with a time of 6.7 seconds.

“The guy’s dodging smoke,” Lyles said of Hill. “I don’t have time for that. . . . If he’s serious about it, if he’s really serious about it — I’m not talking about you just talking on the Internet and you don’t actually come to me and talk to my agent and say, ‘Let’s work something out,’ if you’re serious about it, you’ll see me on the court.”

Lyles is right. There is so much shouting between and among fast guys about who is faster, but they never do it. Because it is much easier to say, “I am faster than you” than to risk being proven wrong.

To be fair to Hill, the clip from the Up and Adams show seemed to reflect Hill’s periodic desire to stir up a little WWE-style drama. Fun, lighthearted, not serious. And, to be even more honest with Hill, he seemed fueled by a misrepresentation from Lyle’s earlier comments on NBA Champions Who Claim They Are World ChampionsLyles has never questioned whether Super Bowl champions are world champions. That’s the comment that angered Hill at Lyles.

Either way, it’s a lot of talk and bluster. Sound and fury that means nothing. Except for the clicks it generates when we’re bored enough to pay attention.

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