Dolphins Coaches Troll Kenny Stills with Jay-Z’s Music After Stills Criticizes Jay’s NFL Partnership

The Dolphins’ veteran receiver Kenny Stills recently had a few thoughts on the Jay-Z/NFL partnership this week as the hip hop mogul signed on to be the newest producer of NFL entertainment amid harsh criticism from prominent figures in and outside the game. Stills basically said that he will take a “wait and see” approach with Jay-Z, but he specifically did not appreciate the comments Jay made on kneeling. Jay-Z said that “we are past” kneeling and of course that would ruffle the feathers of Stills, Eric Reid, and the man who lost his job behind all of this- Colin Kaepernick.

Well, the Dolphins as an organization decided to take a bizarre approach to this and chose to troll Still with Jay’s music. Somehow they think this will end well.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Miami Dolphinscoach Brian Flores passionately defended his decision to play eight consecutive Jay-Z songs during Tuesday’s practice just one day after receiver Kenny Stills expressed disdain about how the hip-hop mogul went about his social justice partnership with the NFL.

As word of the stunt percolated on social media and the internet, many speculated about Flores’ motives for seemingly trolling one of his veteran players. Thursday, after the Dolphins’ 22-7 preseason win over the Jaguars, Flores was emotional in explaining his reasons behind the action. He said the criticism about whether he supports what Stills stands for is without merit.

“It was a challenge to Kenny to perform regardless of whatever is going on outside,” Flores said of playing the Jay-Z songs. “I would say, and I said this to him, he hasn’t performed up to that level over the course of training camp, or as I’ve seen. So that was the challenge — to get open, catch the football and make plays for this team, regardless of what’s going on outside of this building.”

The move seemed puzzling at the time because it caused another distraction for a Dolphins team that has been littered with non-football storylines this month. It was a Flores-induced distraction done very visibly in front of the media in response to something he was worried might be a distraction for one of his players.

Much respect to Stills for remaining professional though this entire thing.