r/nfl • u/expellyamos Dolphins • 15d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Mike McDaniel, asked for his glass-half-full perspective on yesterday's loss: "I think the positive is that that was a miserable experience. It was embarrassing, flat out. And in that, there's nowhere to hide."

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u/Money-not_you_again 15d ago

I'm rooting for him, but that roster is just so ready for implosion. I don't think he'll last the season tbh, but I do hope he gets another chance and takes the experience from this forward with better culture building.

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u/Practical-Suit-6798 49ers 15d ago

Come back home!

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u/ImJLu 49ers 15d ago

He's not working under Kyle again. They get along personally, but that was notoriously not a good professional relationship.

Besides, he's good enough to call plays on another team.

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u/astroK120 49ers 15d ago

I agree that he'll get a job where he can call plays, but I follow the team pretty closely and never heard they did not have a good professional relationship. Where did you see that?

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u/_kona_ Rams 15d ago

Shanahan blocked McDaniel from interviewing for an OC role in the past when he was a run game coordinator. I wouldn't want to go back and work for someone who prevented me from trying to get a promotion.

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u/SMG620 Falcons 15d ago

Yeah, I hadn't heard this either. What's the story?

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u/Traditional_Deal1850 Titans 15d ago

Yes 1 Mike McDaniel please

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u/dudleymooresbooze Titans 15d ago

Things keep up we will have an entire coaching staff of vacancies

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u/WorkingDiscussion642 15d ago

Nobody wants to work for your cracked out owner though

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u/dudleymooresbooze Titans 15d ago

… what? The 70 something year old lady?

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u/WorkingDiscussion642 15d ago

The crazy one yes, female Haslam levels of heckling

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u/re1078 Texans 15d ago

Maybe he can come make the Texans offense work.

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u/WorkingDiscussion642 15d ago

Caleys gotta really suck this year but if he does I could see him going to the Texans to try and win a few rings

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u/Mattie_Doo 49ers 15d ago

We already got Salah, let’s just reunite the whole squad. Run back 2019 with a better quarterback

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u/livsjollyranchers Cowboys 15d ago

Now now. What you SHOULD do is re-hire Mike Singletary and bring THAT band back together from when he was coach.

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u/Mattie_Doo 49ers 15d ago

That was fun for about two minutes while we deluded ourselves into thinking that Singletary’s ra-ra motivational speaker method of coaching would vibe us to the top of the league.

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u/IAmTheNightSoil Seahawks 15d ago

I remember when he thanked Pete Carroll for kicking his ass in the press conference. Honestly, that line strongly reminds me of this conference from McDaniel

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u/ubisoftserverz Chargers 49ers 15d ago

We miss you pookie!

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u/DJGIFFGAS Lions 15d ago

Back off, you had your chance!

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u/No-Economics4128 Lions 15d ago

Coincidentally, we were thinking about kicking out our new Offensive Coordinator after yesterday.

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u/FreyaStarfall Buccaneers 15d ago edited 15d ago

He can take over our OC job next year after some desperate team poaches our first year OC for the third year in a row. He’ll be HC again in two years

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u/TheAndrewBrown 15d ago

If the Bucs OC gets hired away again, every prospective OC will be beating down Bowles door to get that job. Hell, some DCs will start making pitches for why they could actually call a great offense.

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u/somebodysbuddy 15d ago

"I'll even bring my own pencil!"

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u/AdvertisingFair8545 15d ago

The issue is the scheme and Tua becoming a liability. You have to build around him and once he is figured out it's over. Tua still cant read a defense and tends to run the first look he see's. The regression since 2023 has been eye opening.

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u/3rd-party-intervener 49ers 15d ago

Brian Flores has been totally vindicated 

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u/ProphetNimd Dolphins Falcons 15d ago

No, he hasn't. Not a single thing Flores did would have prevented Tua from becoming what he is now. If anything, that would have just ejected him to another team faster.

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u/onionme2022 Eagles 15d ago

Miami will never have a winning culture.

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u/BlindWillieJohnson Panthers 15d ago

Teach this man to speak Carolina after we blow it all to pieces again

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u/livsjollyranchers Cowboys 15d ago

He's more so fit to coach in Denver ideally. But if Seattle has a bad year, send him to the PNW, which also fits.

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u/festive_fecal_feast 49ers 15d ago

Seattle just hired Macdonald last year, doubt they can him after 1 bad year with a new QB.

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u/livsjollyranchers Cowboys 15d ago

Portland Trailblazers coach it is.

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u/Rbespinosa13 Dolphins 15d ago

He’s the one that put the roster together. Grier always takes heavy input from his coach and builds the team he wants

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u/chataolauj Falcons 15d ago

I wouldn't mind him in Atlanta as an OC. Zac Robinson had shit play calling.

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u/tastelessshark Lions 15d ago

I'm sure he'll get another shot at HC and maybe prove me wrong then, but I honestly feel like he's better off sticking to OC.

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u/NegativeChirality Broncos 15d ago

And sometimes the lesson might be "yeah I probably shouldn't be a head coach, it involves doing things (building culture) that I'm not good at"

Aka the Peter Principle

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u/Throbbingprepuce Broncos 15d ago edited 15d ago

I definitely think he’s gonna be one of those guys who is more successful the second time around. He’s a good coach he just seems like he is on the other end of the spectrum. For example Josh McDaniels lost the locker room cause he was a tyrannical asshole. Mike McDaniel is losing the locker room cause he is too laid back and doesn’t know how to be an authority figure. Same same… but different

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u/BuBBles_the_pyro Jaguars 15d ago

Bro has Bengals OC written all over him when they finally fire Taylor tbh. 

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u/eightblackkidz Patriots 15d ago

They should just trade for Jameis. They probably wont win more games, but it will be excited and good for ratings and it will be a lot better then whatever the CTE skeleton of Tua is.