Mike McDaniel, right here with the San Francisco 49ers, watches work outs throughout coaching camp at SAP Efficiency Facility on July 28, 2021 in Santa Clara, California.
Dave Hyde, Sports activities Columnist
Mike McDaniel brings a pointy offensive thoughts and comes from a wholesome teaching tree of Mike and Kyle Shanahan. He’s additionally not the sort of first-time rent to get overly enthusiastic about — until you probably did comparable offensive minds and first-time hires Joe Philbin and Adam Gase. This crew wants some excellent news and the hope is McDaniel brings it.
Omar Kelly, Dolphins Columnist
Younger, hungry and revolutionary is Steve Ross’ fashion on the subject of hiring people to run his corporations, so the collection of Mike McDaniel isn’t stunning. He comes from a crew that featured a bodily dashing assault, and performs the fashion of soccer I imagine wins within the NFL when your crew lacks an elite quarterback. Let’s simply hope that not like Ross’ previous hires McDaniel will do a greater job placing collectively a high quality workers.
David Furones, Dolphins Author
The younger, upstart offensive wiz is the Dolphins’ new head coach. McDaniel will definitely carry much more character to the position than it had underneath earlier coach Brian Flores, and it ought to be a enjoyable, upbeat crew. The 38-year-old first-time head coach should rent a robust workers to help him as he doesn’t have play-calling expertise as offensive coordinator. He's a run-game mastermind, which ought to assist with the Dolphins’ among the many worst within the league in that space final season, however he additionally hasn’t labored with quarterbacks. He’ll want the correct assistants to assist develop Tua Tagovailoa. We are also not sure how he’ll fare commanding the respect of a locker room from a lead position, however solely time will inform.
Steve Svekis, Assistant Sports activities Editor
Sure, Steve Ross continues the franchise’s 17-year streak of hiring coaches with no earlier NFL head teaching expertise, however McDaniel has a unique really feel than the others, from Nick Saban to Cam Cameron to Tony Sparano to Joe Philbin to Adam Gase to Brian Flores. He appears comfy when speaking to a bunch, and likewise comes from the Kyle Shanahan teaching tree, which has seen wonderful outcomes the previous few years.