After nearly a month, the Miami Dolphins' coaching efforts are finally over, and on Sunday they announced that they have reached an agreement with Mike McDaniel, the offensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers this season, to appoint him as the team's head coach for the new season. Dolphins reportedly offered McDaniel a four-year contract. This means that the incident with former coach Brian Flores, who has been making a lot of noise in the past, is over, at least on the Dolphin side.
It is worth mentioning that the final candidate to enter the Dolphins with McDaniel is The Cowboys offensive coordinator Karen Moore, so it can be seen that the focus of the Dolphins' coaching work is to strengthen their own offense. The 38-year-old McDaniel has been honing his NFL coaching role for 15 years, but it was only in early 2021 that he replaced Mike Lafleur as the new offensive coordinator for the 49ers, who are 7th in the league in offensive yards per game this season, and their versatile use of outside receiver Dibo Samuel has been praised by all fans.
McDaniel began his NFL coaching career in 2005 as an intern at the Broncos, followed by three seasons as an offensive assistant for the Texans under Gary Kubiac and three seasons as an offensive assistant and receiver coach in Washington. He has worked with current packers coach Matt Lafleur, Rams coach Sean McVeigh and 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan. He then followed Shanahan Jr. to the 49ers, where he remained the Dolphins manager.
McDaniel also became the Dolphins' 11th head coach after 2000, having hired only three managers in the previous 34 years, which is enough to see the instability and chaos of the team over the past 20 years. Flores, the previously fired coach, put the dolphin on the stage with a complaint, saying that its boss gave money to the rotten. Dolphin's choice, however, proved itself to be non-discriminatory, as McDaniel called himself a minority.
In this way, McDaniel, along with Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, Washington Commander Manager Ron Rivera and Jets coach Robert Saleh, became the only 4 minority managers in the league. Under the Rooney rule, the 49ers would receive two third-round draft picks as compensation for hiring a minority assistant for the NFL manager's job.
Nine teams will need to hire a new manager at the end of the season, and only two seats are left vacant, the Texans and Saints.
(Aibao)