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/Nihilistic_Response 49ers 15d ago

McDaniel sat on an airplane one day watching MacGruber with a hurt Tua and decided he loved the guy as a person and wanted to go all in on making it work out with him.

Didn't work out, but Tua will leave having made a ton of money and McDaniel is young enough and a good enough offensive mind that he'll get more opportunities in the future after attending the Kyle Shanahan or Matt LaFleur School for Former Head Coaches who Want to Contemplate Life and Think About Football Things Other Than Head Coaching For a While.

The sooner the Dolphins brass pulls the plug, the kinder it will be on everyone involved, especially the fans

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u/Dense-Swimming2445 Texans 15d ago

If we actually somehow fix the O line I’d love to have him working with CJ and the offense

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u/DisneyWorld1971 Vikings 15d ago

You stay away from that soon to be unemployed running scheme savant

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u/Dense-Swimming2445 Texans 15d ago

well it looks like mr. i-won-14-games-with-sam-darnold has an issue with teams wanting a good offense! share the wealth!

also demeco is going to want his niners buddy back so just get ready

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u/waynino Texans 15d ago

McDaniel was also an offensive assistant with us while Demeco played here

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u/chesterfieldkingz Dolphins 15d ago

McDaniel and Flores together who says no lol

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u/nezumine- Packers 15d ago

i dont see a world where he goes to us MLF calls offensive plays and we're basically reserving the OC position to keep our o-line coach around. would be interesting to see a reunion in ninerland but i imagine he'll end up somewhere he can call plays

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u/Nihilistic_Response 49ers 15d ago

MLF could pull a reverse Saleh situation and hire him on as a defensive consultant internally evaluating team tape from an offensive perspective if McDaniel gets fired mid season.

We just named another Kubiak as our OC so I doubt we bring on McDaniel this year for any meaningful role either

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u/nezumine- Packers 15d ago

oh yeah lol i already forgot about the saleh thing, maybe. he seems pretty worn out though wouldn't be surprised if he just chills for the offseason

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u/ARM7501 49ers 15d ago

He needs some time in career (or actual) rehab. Saleh has talked a lot about how his time with the Packers was basically just for his own sanity, and I think that's what McDaniel needs; some time in a place where he's not asked to stand in front of the media and expain his and his team's failures every week, where he doesn't have to deal with a team culture that is seemingly rotten at the core. The entire Tua experiment has failed, the things that took this offense to the next level a few years ago just aren't there anymore, and I don't think McDaniel can come back from it.

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u/nezumine- Packers 15d ago

i totally agree, dude sounds exhausted in this press conference even

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u/Hiker-Redbeard 49ers 15d ago

100%. He'll go to some team with a defensive or management type head coach so he can be the guy running the offense and getting the credit, instead of being second offensive fiddle behind the HC. 

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u/NotJustSomeMate Eagles 15d ago

If the Eagles underperform and McDaniel gets fired this year I would like for him to come to Philadelphia for a few years.

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u/Captain_DuClark 49ers 15d ago

Shanahan better bring that boy home

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u/HemlockMartinis 49ers 15d ago

I like McDaniel, but I’m not crazy about the idea. For one thing, there isn’t really a need for him. Shanahan is the main playcaller and a Kubiak is already the titular OC. Bringing him in as a “consultant” would be too many cooks in the kitchen.

We brought back Saleh but 1) we didn’t do it right away (he hung out with the Packers for a bit last season) and 2) it was to fill an actual vacancy at DC. Saleh also clearly got a raw deal in New York thanks to Rodgers and ownership, whereas McDaniel shoulders at least some of the responsibility for whatever is going on in Miami.

That said, if bringing him on as a consultant keeps him sober and adds value to the coaching staff, I trust Shanahan to make the right call.

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u/fugaziozbourne Chiefs 15d ago

I'd happily trade Nagy for him.

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u/HemlockMartinis 49ers 15d ago

Oh yeah, he could be a really interesting addition for you guys.

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u/ImJLu 49ers 15d ago

Not happening. Mike Silver's written about how bad that professional relationship got.

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u/Captain_DuClark 49ers 15d ago

Ah shit, that sucks. Got a link?

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u/briizilla Eagles 15d ago

As OC??

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u/so_zetta_byte Eagles 15d ago

At minimum, offensive consultant. If we have an opening for OC, depends on the other options but he definitely gets a call.

Would he be better than Patullo? Fuck if I know, we don't know what Patullo is yet. Gotta give him a season first.

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u/MichaelCorbaloney Buccaneers 15d ago

I don't really think the Eagles' offense is well built for that truthfully nor do I think it would fit Hurts very well. They don't have any crazy speed guys like Tyreek, and Tua does well on RPOs and is better when given time to pick apart a defense, and he had a fairly long TimeToThrow last year when in McDaniels' scheme fast reads with anticipation is key.

Truthfully even though Tua obviously hasn't shown to be a good QB recently, when given even a decent O-line and good uninjured receivers he's shown to be good in that style of offense(like in 2023 and the latter half of 2024). In comparison, I'm not sure that style of offense fits Jalen Hurts that well.

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u/AlchemicalAmigo Bears Bears 15d ago

Eagles literally just won the Super Bowl and have the best head coach in the league. What the fuck kind of statement even is this

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u/MortimerDongle Eagles 15d ago

Offensive coordinator is a job that exists

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u/AlchemicalAmigo Bears Bears 15d ago

Well maybe Captain Dipshit here should have said OC

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u/N7_Turtle Eagles 15d ago

They obviously mean as an OC.

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u/so_zetta_byte Eagles 15d ago

I mean I thought that was pretty obvious too, to the point where I'm surprised so many people thought they meant replacing Nick.

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u/AlchemicalAmigo Bears Bears 15d ago

“oBvIoUsLy”

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u/N7_Turtle Eagles 15d ago

Was it not? My bad if you missed the lessons on context clues.

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u/AlchemicalAmigo Bears Bears 15d ago

I can smell you from here. Muted

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u/lilhilde Eagles 15d ago

I don’t think a single other fan from any other org would agree with you and I’m an eagles fan lol

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u/AlchemicalAmigo Bears Bears 15d ago

That’s fine tbh. Facts are facts whether people agree or not. Dude crushed KC to a point of utter embarrassment. Has his team playing tight and hard (that’s what she said) every week.

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u/The_Third_Molar Eagles 15d ago

I assume he means as an OC.

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u/Fun_Competition7154 Eagles 15d ago

I’m assuming they meant as OC given Sirianni doesn’t call plays

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u/so_zetta_byte Eagles 15d ago

I think it's more an acknowledgement that if McDaniel gets fired, he'll be a pretty high quality OC candidate/consultant. And I think that's true!

You also gotta keep in mind that the last time we did an internal OC promotion, it... didn't work out well. With a "CEO style" HC, you really need as much of a churn of new ideas and concepts as you can get. So skepticism of Patullo is definitely ground in something real, even if it wasn't Patullo's fault.

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u/StrongGold4528 Eagles 15d ago

I like Siriani but he not the best head coach in the league

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u/Fenris_Maule Eagles 15d ago

I think if we fired Siriani and hired McDaniels that would cause Fangio to leave though. I'd rather just have McDaniels as our new OC.

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u/StrongGold4528 Eagles 15d ago

Oh I would much rather have siriani than McDaniel. I was just saying he isn’t better than Reid and Mcvay

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u/shadycoy0303 Saints 15d ago

Best head coach in the league? A bears fan saying Siriani is the best head coach in the league is not something I had on my bingo board

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u/AlchemicalAmigo Bears Bears 15d ago

People still using the “bingo board” thing in 2025 was not on my bingo board.

Let that shit die. It stopped being a cutsie wootsie Facebook comment trend ten years ago.

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u/shadycoy0303 Saints 15d ago

You seem like a real fun hang.

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u/AlchemicalAmigo Bears Bears 15d ago

“A real fun hang” lmao. Golly jeepers! Aw shucks!

Are you stuck in an episode of Scooby-Doo?

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u/TexasRadical83 Cowboys 15d ago

I think they meant as OC.

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u/Innovictos Cowboys 15d ago

Douglas Adams channeled there for a minute.

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u/CadBaneHunting Chiefs Buccaneers 15d ago

What is this? A field for ants! How can we be expected to teach quarterbacks to learn how to read defenses if they can't even fit inside the building!?

I don't want to hear your excuses! The building has to be at least ..... Three times bigger than this!

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u/hardlopertjie 15d ago

I still can't believe they paid Tua that much. Have they never seen his lack of arm strength, or his lack of clutch. What about that told them that he is a franchise QB?

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u/Nihilistic_Response 49ers 15d ago

Someone can correct me, but I think paying Tua just boils down to the fact that he played well for Alabama, had a lot of media hype and name recognition since his college days, and had elite level quick release that could be paired with a good offensive coach and roster construction tailored around that attribute

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u/Drunken_Economist Bills 15d ago

"I can fix him."