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Seth and Sean react to the news of the Dolphins moving on from Mike McDaniel as Head Coach, wonder where he'll end up next and what it means for their DC, former Texan Anthony Weaver.

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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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