Chris Perkins talks Chris Grier & Dolphins parting ways | says players have tuned Mike McDaniel out - video Dailymotion

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Chris Perkins joins the show for his reaction & claims he feels the roster has tuned McDaniel out.

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00:00I'm Chris Perkins on the Toyota of Hollywood Hotline.

00:03Perk, you've covered this team for a long, long time.

00:08I think there were several moments this season that were embarrassing enough to necessitate changes,

00:14but nothing happened, and last night, finally, Stephen Ross, I guess, reached a boiling point.

00:21So, what's your take on the mutual parting between Chris Greer and the Miami Dolphins?

00:30My first take is Greer was fired.

00:32My second take is, why is Mike McDaniel still there?

00:36I mean, what's going on here?

00:38I mean, maybe it's because Steve Ross really likes him.

00:42Maybe it's because there's not a better choice for interim coach on this staff.

00:46But, man, if they don't take a groom to the duo of Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel, something's wrong.

00:53It would be so Dolphins to do this piecemeal once again.

00:56And what's happening with the coach?

01:00What's happening with the preparation, Perk?

01:02Just ill-prepared to play, penalties, pre-snap penalties, unneeded timeouts, coming out at half.

01:08I saw the other day, I was watching the Chiefs game.

01:10They scored six out of eight times.

01:13Eight games, six times they scored on the first drive of the second half because they made adjustments.

01:18You can't put that on Chris Greer.

01:20This team doesn't look prepared for some of these games.

01:22No, you're right, Tanner.

01:24And look, this is a situation where I had a column written this morning.

01:30I was like two minutes from following it that said Mike McDaniel era is a failure.

01:37And then the Chris Greer thing came up.

01:39And so I had to scrap that column and write a new column on Chris Greer.

01:43But, you know, the Dolphins, they go through these stretches under Mike McDaniel of where they get figured out

01:50and they just get in this extended funk.

01:53Y'all realize this is the sixth three-game losing streak under Mike McDaniel.

01:59Sixth!

02:00Like Baltimore and Buffalo have, I think Baltimore has had a three-game losing streak

02:06and a four-game losing streak in the McDaniel era.

02:09Kansas City has not had a three-game losing streak.

02:12Buffalo has not had a three-game losing streak.

02:15The Dolphins have had six.

02:17And they had a five-game losing streak in 2022 also.

02:21They just get in these folks of penalties and turnovers and boneheaded mistakes.

02:26Blown coverage is like, how many of those touchdowns last night were wide open?

02:31They just have these extended periods that they can't get out of that they just do boneheaded things.

02:37And that's where we're at right now.

02:39It's another three-game losing streak.

02:40So we're going to disconnect Perk real quick here, and we're going to reconnect via the phone

02:45because we have a bad connection with him.

02:47So we'll just take him on the phone line because we were trying to do video as well,

02:50but it's a little too echoey and hollow there.

02:52So we'll disconnect him for one sec.

02:54We'll reconnect on the phone, and we will reconvene with Chris Perkins

02:58and continue our coverage here of Chris Greer being let go.

03:02He said there whether you could hear it or not at the beginning.

03:04He said Chris Greer was fired.

03:07He doesn't take it as to be a mutual decision, which I think everyone agrees.

03:12Unless if you're Chris Greer and you've had conversations with Stephen Ross, you know,

03:17leading into last night's game, just based on everything this season, like, hey, you know,

03:22we're going to have to make a change at some point.

03:24Like Chris Greer is not unaware.

03:25He knows what's going on.

03:28It is possible that after the game last night, Chris Greer calls him and says,

03:33hey, if you were ready to make that change, like, I understand it.

03:37So in that aspect, it would, you know what I mean, where it could be considered to be mutual,

03:43and I'm sure the payout has something to do with it, mutual, reconnected with Perk on the phone here.

03:47Sorry, Perk, but we had a bad connection there, and I wanted to make sure that we were able to hear

03:51everything that you had to say.

03:52When Mike McDaniel is still here, I said to Crowder earlier, like,

03:57it's going to be a strange vibe at that facility, right, where the GM has gone in the middle of the season,

04:05the head coach has to feel like dead man walking, the players don't know if they're going to be here next Tuesday,

04:12they don't know who's going to be making a decision on their future,

04:15they know the season's been an abject failure, like, that's a really weird situation for these players to be in, no?

04:23Oh, yeah, and players, assistant coaches, everybody, everybody's going to be wondering,

04:28what the heck do I have to do to stay here, or is it inevitable that I'm going to be canned,

04:34just like Chris Greer was?

04:35So I don't know how the vibe is going to be next week when we go out there,

04:39but I'm sure that everybody is just going to be looking at each other going,

04:43what the heck is going on around here?

04:45Like, who fires the GM without firing the coach mid-season?

04:49It's just another soul dolphin thing, and, you know, Dave Hyde, you know,

04:56got confirmed that McDaniel will be here at least through the end of the season.

05:01So it doesn't look like there's, it doesn't look like a coaching change is inevitable here.

05:07It looks like they're just going to see what happens the rest of the season and then go from there.

05:12But, man, I would just find it so hard to believe that Mike McDaniel would survive this change at this point.

05:19It seems to me like you just do a complete rebuild and proceed like that

05:24and not just do the piecemeal rebuild like it looks like right now they might be considering.

05:31And, Perk, what is Champ Kelly's, what's his responsibility over these next, you know, whatever it is, nine weeks?

05:39Can he make moves?

05:40Because if he's not going to be your GM, you shouldn't have him, you know, building the groceries again.

05:45Like, they put him in place.

05:47I know he's been here for a while.

05:48I found out today he's been here since March.

05:50But what's his responsibilities moving forward?

05:53I'm going to guess that he's got full GM capabilities or else, you know, why have him in there?

06:00So I would guess that, you know, and look, I don't think that he's going to be authorized to make wholesale changes

06:07and, you know, trade away Jalen Waddle and Devon H.

06:10But I think that he would be able to trade some players such as Bradley Chubb or Matthew Judon

06:19or maybe even Jalen Phillips, I would think that he's pretty much got full GM capability within reason.

06:27Of course, within reason, that's a strange phrase to apply to the Dolphins, right?

06:32If we applied reason, Mike McDaniel wouldn't be there.

06:36There's been nothing reasonable about this team the entire season.

06:39But, Perk, to that point, we're all kind of expecting McDaniel to do what any coach would do

06:46who feels like his job is perhaps under pressure or he's under pressure of losing the job,

06:51which would be play the best players available, right?

06:54But I think that's where it becomes difficult where you want to see what guys could potentially become good players in the future,

07:03but you have a head coach who's saying, no, no, no, I'm trying to win games.

07:07Would Mike McDaniel perhaps reconsider that approach just because he wants to potentially lean into a new regime

07:16and be here long-term?

07:19Like, I know it's easy for him to say, I'm playing the best players, but maybe he's going to say,

07:22hey, I'll help you, Stephen Ross, I'll help you, Champ Kelly, evaluate some of the newer, younger players,

07:30even if it means I'm losing more games as a head coach.

07:33You know what, Solana, it's interesting because I don't know how much lower you can go on the totem pole,

07:41and what I mean is they're already playing younger players.

07:44Like, they have changed philosophies coming into the season from the win now to the draft and develop thing.

07:50You know, they're going to win with youth and draftees, and so that's why you're seeing a lot of the younger players

07:56out there playing, well, that and injuries, but, I mean, you're already playing, you know,

08:01Kenneth Grant and Jonas Abaynaya and Jordan Phillips and Dante Trader and Jason Marshall Jr.

08:07and Taj Washington, Malik Washington.

08:10Like, there's not a whole lot of guys that you can go to on the bench, you know, draftees that you can say,

08:16let's see what this guy can do.

08:17We're seeing it already.

08:19So, you know, I would think that Mike McDaniel is going to do his best to win with the young players

08:28and the draftees because that was the plan last time we had checked with them.

08:33I don't see why they would deviate from that because you do still have to start over.

08:38Regardless of who is going to be the general manager, you do have to start over.

08:42So, I wouldn't expect that Mike McDaniel is going to go away from, you know, playing,

08:49and let's just say go away from playing Tua, although, you know, I think if you get to Tua 9,

08:54if you lose the last two, I would want to see if you have a bridge quarterback on the roster

08:59between Zach Wilson and Quinn Ewers, but, you know, aside from that, I don't know how much lower

09:05that you can go.

09:06I wouldn't imagine they would bench Devon Achan to see what Jalen Wright can do.

09:10So, I think they're pretty much at that point where they're trying to see what they have

09:16with young players.

09:17I'm watching the game right now.

09:18It's up on NFL Network here in the studio.

09:21And I don't know if I've ever seen McDaniel look as exasperated all game long as he did

09:27on the sidelines last night.

09:29And Crowder had mentioned the Ollie Gordon fight.

09:33Who's the running back's coach?

09:34Eric Studeville.

09:35Yeah, Studeville.

09:36He got into it with him.

09:37Like, there's obviously some disarray there.

09:41I know you said, and we saw the reports, you said Dave Hyde at the Sun-Sentinel confirmed

09:45that McDaniel will be the head coach the rest of the season.

09:48Do you think there is a scenario, though, where he's not?

09:53Oh, I think there could be because if you, I mean, let's just say you get blown out in

09:58the next two games and you're a really ugly two and nine at the bye.

10:03Mike, I think that we're already at the point where players have stopped listening to Mike

10:08McDaniel.

10:09You know, again, I think they'll always like Mike.

10:12I think they'll always respect Mike.

10:14But I think they tuned him out.

10:15You just see all these errors, repeated errors.

10:19And I'm talking to players in the locker room last night, guys that I trust, Alec Engold

10:25and Aaron Brewer and Patrick Paul, and they're all talking about a lack of focus, that we

10:30need to focus and practice.

10:33It just sounds like they've tuned Mike McDaniel out.

10:36You see all these coverage busts and the turnovers and all of this kind of stuff, the penalties.

10:42So it's going to be very, very interesting to see what happens around there, because I

10:48don't think that the players are really paying attention to Mike that much anymore.

10:54And, Perk, I never thought I had asked this question at this level of football, but I need

10:58a yes or no.

10:59I really do.

11:00Can Tua stand on the 50-yard line, throw the ball into the end zone?

11:07I don't know.

11:08He took that dive last night.

11:10I don't know.

11:12I would think that he could, but, you know, really, to me, with Tua, it's what can you

11:18do without Tyreek Hill and Darren Waller in this Mike McDaniel offense?

11:23And, Mike McDaniel, what is your offense about without Tyreek Hill?

11:27Because we're not seeing much.

11:29We didn't see much in training camp either.

11:31You remember Tyreek didn't do hardly anything in training camp, and it wasn't necessarily

11:37the dink and dunk offense they went to last year.

11:39But the threat of the big play was on.

11:42Tua doesn't have a big arm.

11:44We all know that.

11:45But can he move this offense?

11:47Can this offense be creative without Tyreek?

11:50So far, to me, the answer is a resounding no.

11:54And, yeah, Crowder, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

11:57Now, I'm going to say he can do that.

11:59I don't know if it'll go 51 yards or 52, but I'm going to say it's going to go 50.

12:04Chris Perkins, read his work in the Sun-Sentinel, download the Sun-Sentinel app, and obviously

12:10there will be continuing Dolphins coverage.

12:13And, oh, it's just Buffalo next on the schedule.

12:18That's all.

12:182-1-8 is inevitable, right?

12:21We will write that down.

12:22It's just Buffalo.

12:23Like I said, going into last night's game, like, for Baltimore, this is a get-right game.

12:29And it was.

12:30Buffalo ain't a get-right game for the Dolphins.

12:33So it's just Buffalo.

12:34We'll do what we do.

12:36We'll read your coverage all weekend long, Perk.

12:38Thanks for making time for us.

12:40All right.

12:40I'm going to pay my cell phone bill here and get some better apparel up here.

12:45See you, Perk.

12:46There you go.

12:47Chris Perkins from the Sun-Sentinel.

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12:50What a great spot to hang out this weekend, watch a little football.

12:54They got HDTVs throughout the club, VIP areas, four stages of entertainment, and the most beautiful

13:00ladies in South Florida.

13:02And, of course, it's Halloween night tonight.

13:04And Halloween night at Cheetah Pompano or Cheetah Palm Beach, probably pretty fun.

13:10And if you're looking for, hey, you want to wipe out the memories of last night's football

13:14game, go to Cheetah Palm Beach or Cheetah Pompano Beach tonight and let them take it.

13:20It's almost like the Men in Black Neuralizer.

13:23You walk into Cheetah, man, you won't remember anything you don't want to remember anymore.

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