Hottest coaching seat across the NFL belongs to: Mike McDaniel

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A list ranking head coaches on the hot seat has Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel at the very top. Will this be his last season in Miami?

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00:00I don't know if you saw it.

00:01Joe Shad had tweeted it out, retweeted pro football talk.

00:05You know, Mike Florio, he's got the 2025 coaching hot seat list,

00:11and he has Mike McDaniel as the number one name

00:15on the NFL coaching hot seat list.

00:21Can't argue it.

00:23I know there's some coaches, you know, Stefanski.

00:26Just think about bad teams, but yeah.

00:29McDaniel's job security is not very strong.

00:31He's just run out of time.

00:33And again, you know, I think they're close,

00:37and I think last year was the outlier, but there's been,

00:40if you look at last year and accept it, it was a regression,

00:44and this will be what, his fourth season?

00:48Fourth season?

00:49Yeah.

00:49I mean, you've got to have results.

00:52You have too much talent.

00:53You've had too much talent on the roster to not have results

00:57after four seasons, so I do think him being number one

01:01on the coaching hot seat is probably a fair assessment.

01:04And for him, I think Tua's a gift and a curse,

01:07because Tua can run his stuff very well.

01:10Nobody else can.

01:11We've seen it.

01:12Nobody else they have on that roster can run his offense.

01:15But, Hawk, Mike McDaniels brought in, in my opinion,

01:18number one priority was to make the investment they made,

01:23the guy they took fifth overall, into a great quarterback.

01:28And I think he succeeded at that.

01:30Well, he did.

01:31But the reason he's brought in, though, is to at least win a playoff game,

01:35make that quarterback a great quarterback,

01:36so that translates then to postseason success.

01:41So he's got some of it done, but you don't have just, you know,

01:45a limitless timeline to get it all done.

01:47Right, but if I'm Mike McDaniel, I'm saying,

01:49hey, I got us into the playoffs,

01:52and I made Tua a pro-ball caliber quarterback.

01:55The one season we didn't make the playoffs, he wasn't available.

01:58And guess what?

01:59I need better, as you guys always say, ingredients in the kitchen.

02:04So I'm not even defending Mike McDaniel.

02:06But he's part of the team that's going shopping.

02:09Like, I mean, you know.

02:11And they underperform again.

02:13It's honestly, Alana, it's a lot that you bring up all the time.

02:15He underperforms against playoff teams.

02:19So we want you to win a playoff game.

02:21You play the Chiefs late.

02:22You play the Bills late.

02:23They always whoop your ass.

02:24You can't figure out a way to beat them somehow, some year.

02:31Where did Ben Johnson go to?

02:34Chicago.

02:35Yeah.

02:36So Ben Johnson, to your point, I just lines up when you said it.

02:39Ben Johnson's there to make Caleb Williams' full potential hit.

02:42When Caleb starts playing well under Ben, Ben has to start winning games now.

02:47Right.

02:48It's not just, hey, I got Caleb playing good.

02:50I'm good.

02:51No, now it's time to win games.

02:52No, no.

02:53Obviously, I understand.

02:54Like, he needs to.

02:55I'm just saying, Mike McDaniel, in my opinion, held up his end of the bargain in terms of what it is he was brought in here to do.

03:02And then he could also say, hey, look, man, like, I need a better roster.

03:08I can't compete against the top teams because my roster just doesn't stack up against those teams.

03:13Any losing coach could say that, right?

03:16Yeah.

03:16It just, that would fall on deaf ears if I was an NFL owner or team president or whatever.

03:21Yeah.

03:21Okay.

03:21Anyone who doesn't lose needs, you know, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts.

03:26And, like, but I can't deliver that.

03:27So, you have to figure out a way how to, you know, exploit what we do have for maximum gain.

03:34And if you can't do it, I'll find someone who can't.

03:37And so, your point about the groceries, if McDaniels is gone, Chris Greer is gone.

03:44No doubt.

03:45That you have to total, you're talking about a reset?

03:48I don't know roster reset, but you have to administratively reset.

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