00:00Uh, Adam Schefter reporting Dolphins firing head coach, Mike McDaniel Dolphins owner,
00:05Steven Ross met with McDaniel this week to discuss the season after that meeting and
00:10reflection, Ross decided to move on.
00:13So I think if we're to localize that story, Seth, um, there were a lot of people that
00:19would text this show, social media, whatever Texan fans, as the dolphins were floundering
00:25miserably in the early part of the season.
00:27And the Texans offense was floundering almost equally miserably in the early part of the
00:31season that we're saying, bring in Mike McDaniel.
00:34He's going to get fired.
00:35Bring him in fire.
00:36Kaylee.
00:36We want McDaniel to be the offensive coordinator.
00:39I think this all of a sudden, at least in terms of the outside noise becomes a big game for
00:48Nick Kaylee on Monday.
00:49Yeah.
00:49Uh, in terms of just the Texan fans.
00:52Now that Mike McDaniel is available, McDaniel, of course, right off the Shanahan tree.
00:57Uh, you know, did some good things offensively in my, got the best version of to a tongue
01:01of Iowa.
01:01Dan, but I, and I wonder though, too, like, is that, is the shine off that apple by now?
01:06I think that when, when he had Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle and everything was new and
01:13defenses didn't know quite what they were going to do then, man, yeah, that everything
01:17looked great.
01:17And then it was the class, not just court.
01:20It's not just rookie quarterbacks that have a sophomore slump to worry about because then,
01:25uh, then defenses have, uh, the book on them.
01:28It's young offensive coordinators too.
01:30Like Bobby Sloick, when all of a sudden people know what you can and cannot do, and they take
01:35away what you can do, then it gets a lot tougher.
01:38And I'll like, did Tua Tungabailoa become a worse quarterback or have worse skills all
01:44of a sudden?
01:45I don't think so.
01:46I think it was just that they, he became what he was and Mike McDaniel didn't really have
01:50any answers for it.
01:51Yeah.
01:52I, I think with McDaniel, it'd be interesting to, to actually ask people who want McDaniel.
01:57I'm not somebody who wants McDaniel all that badly to run this offense.
02:00It would be interesting to see what the, what the big reason is, because to your point,
02:05he needed elite level weapons to get to that level of offense.
02:09And it still wasn't an offense that got you anywhere in the post season or even into the
02:13post season, um, this season.
02:15And people will say, we've got the best version of Tua Tungabailoa, which I just said a minute
02:18ago.
02:19Yeah.
02:19He also got the worst version of him this year.
02:21Like he collapsed.
02:22He collapsed with, with Mike McDaniel as well.
02:24I think if, if I'm somebody who needs to be talked into it, I'm probably more about the
02:29Shanahan tree thing than I am what happened in Miami, which is not a great reason to hire
02:34somebody just because they happen to be a coworker or a subordinate to somebody who's really good
02:39at their job.
02:39The whole thing about Mike McDaniel that'd be interesting is that he might be that, um,
02:44he might be that, that golden candidate that you want.
02:48If you've got a defensive minded head coach is, Hey, this guy is an offensive coordinator
02:53and nothing more.
02:55I don't know if he's like, I don't know.
02:59Man, his, or that is that, that stoner stick that he has.
03:04I don't think that interviews real well when you're not looked at as like he's of all the
03:10classic head coach attributes that people look for.
03:13Uh, it's, he doesn't have any of them, you know, and I think he might be an offensive coordinator
03:18for the rest of his life.
03:19So you don't have to worry about him getting plucked away.
03:22So that's the one big intriguing thing about it.
03:25I think is okay.
03:26I might be able to hire this offensive coordinator and he can just, he can do offensive coordinator
03:30type things.
03:31The head coach sets the tone and stills the discipline, everything else, and that we can
03:35keep them around for a while.
03:37You know, what's interesting too, is Anthony Weaver is an interesting, um, angle to all this.
03:41He's the defensive coordinator in Miami.
03:43He has much more of those traits that you're just talking about.
03:48You know, the podium, uh, the, you know, the culture setting, it feels like I'm not saying
03:53they'd hire him in Miami.
03:54I just wonder what's going to happen with Anthony.
03:55Well, you and I are both friends with Anthony Weaver.
03:57So I'm thinking about it probably in part from a personal standpoint, but also professionally.
04:02I think it's a fascinating one because he's, I think he's well-respected around the league.
04:06And yet the times he's been a defensive coordinator, the defenses haven't been all that great.
04:11You know, here in Houston, I think he just got dealt a bad hand, um, in, in Miami, you
04:16know, that's, I, you know, that if Weaver gets hired again, as a DC, or maybe even as
04:23a head coach, it's probably analogous to Mike Vrabel getting hired in Tennessee, where it
04:27was a lot of the charisma, you know, that got him that job.
04:30Well, Vrabel and Tomlin are two guys where they were identified very early as guys that,
04:36okay, this guy, uh, like battle red block in the day, leader of men.
04:41Have her of it, uh, whatever it is, that's what those guys have.
04:45And it's interesting that neither of them spent a bunch of time as an actual coordinator before
04:52they got their job.
04:54Tomlin had one year as a defensive coordinator, then got the job with the Steelers.
04:58Mike Vrabel had one year as coordinator with the Texans, wasn't a good defense, but then
05:03got the head coaching job.
05:04And they never had to go through that, that period of either being the bright young kid
05:10or maybe being a guy that if Vrabel had gone and let's say he had gone four years as a defense
05:14coordinator and never had a good defensive defense, would he have gotten a head coaching
05:19job?
05:19I don't know.
05:20Yeah.
05:20Cause he, but he kind of bypassed the whole process.
05:23Small sample.
05:24Because there are, I think there are a lot of guys who are much better head coaches than
05:27they are coordinators.
05:27Just as we know, there are other guys who are much better coordinators than they are
05:31head coaches.
05:32Yes.
05:32If you miss it, the Miami job now open.
05:34And I, I haven't had a chance to sit down and feel like, where does this fall on the
05:38eight jobs that are now definitely behind Baltimore?
05:41Um, probably not as bad as Cleveland.
05:43And then I think you can make a case anywhere in between anywhere from two to seven, uh, for,
05:48um, for Miami.
05:49Well, uh, yeah.
05:51And, uh, McDaniel did them the disservice of improving their draft pick in the second half
05:55season two, seven games or whatever it was.
05:58It's true.
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