Report: Mike Mcdaniel Has Surprising Bit Of Job Security Despite Dolphins Firing Gm

The Mike McDaniel show goes connected successful South Beach.

Just minutes aft the Dolphins fired wide manager Chris Grier, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Friday, citing sources, that McDaniel will stay nan Dolphins’ caput coach for astatine slightest nan remainder of nan play pursuing a sluggish 2–7 start.

It appeared for illustration nan 2025 run was a make-or-break twelvemonth for McDaniel and nan Dolphins. Miami stumbled retired of nan gate, dropping its first 3 games of nan play earlier scraping together a 27–21 triumph complete nan Jets successful Week 4. Miami went connected to suffer 4 of its adjacent 5 games and looked uncompetitive successful an disfigured 28–6 nonaccomplishment to nan Ravens astatine Hard Rock Stadium connected Thursday night.

However, Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross apparently wished Grier was much of nan logic for Miami’s struggles than McDaniel.

The Dolphins hired McDaniel up of nan 2022 run aft parting ways pinch Brian Flores. Over three-plus seasons astatine nan helm, McDaniel has led nan Dolphins to a 30–30 record with 2 playoff appearances successful 2022 and ‘23. Miami’s play ended successful nan wild-card information some years, but it marked nan first clip nan franchise made nan playoffs successful back-to-back seasons since 2001.

The Dolphins haven’t had a full-time coach log a grounds of .500 aliases amended crossed his tenure since Dave Wannstedt went 42–31 complete 5 seasons from 2000 to ‘04.

McDaniel began his NFL coaching profession arsenic an intern pinch nan Broncos successful 2005 nether coach Mike Shanahan. He spent 3 years pinch nan Texans and 2 seasons pinch nan Sacramento Mountain Lions of nan UFL earlier reuniting pinch Shanahan successful Washington from 2011 to ‘13. For nan adjacent 8 years, McDaniel coached nether Kyle Shanahan, moving his measurement up to becoming nan 49ers’ violative coordinator successful 2021—a domiciled that put his sanction connected nan head-coaching circuit.

The Dolphins will return to nan gridiron—with McDaniel connected nan sidelines—in Week 10 against nan rival Bills.

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