Mike McDaniel Hired; A Deep Dive on His Career

Mike McDaniel. Will tell you about his life and football career, facts and accomplishments. We'll look at some systems he's held a hand in orchestrating across the NFL over the last fifteen years. We'll get some testimonials from those that have played with coach from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Pod cast. So that's right, Mike McDaniel, the eleventh full time head

coach in Miami Dolphins history. Let's go ahead and get started here on the introduction edition of Drive Time with his coaching resume, and he began back in two thousand five as a coaching intern with the Denver Broncos, and you might recall the first game that year for the Broncos was in Miami, a Dolphins victory. Two thousand six through two thousand eight the Houston Texans, he was an

offensive assistant for those three years. He then coached in the United Football League with the Sacramento Lions as the running back coach from O nine to two thousand and ten. In twelve, he was with the Washington Commanders as an offensive assistant and then was promoted to the receiver's coach

in there. He held the same position with the Cleveland Browns the receiver's coach before a trip to the Atlanta Falcons for the twenty sixteen seasons as an offensive assistant, and then he followed Kyle Shanahan to the San Francisco forty nine is the first four years of his career. There he was the run game coordinator and then last season he finishes off as the forty nine offensive coordinator

under Kyle Shanahan as well. Here in a later portion of this podcast and a story about Niners tight end George Kittle, the Niners for a long time blocked teams from interviewing McDaniel and other forty Niners assistants unless their coordinator role they were interviewing four was attached to play

calling duties. They and Kyle Shanahan in the story from forty Niners web zone dot Com, is said to have had a firm belief in the idea that retaining coaches and continuity there was crucial to their operation, and coach McDaniel was deemed an essential part of that Niner staff to the point that they would exercise their option to block those interviews again unless it was for a promotion

that came with play calling duties. And of course, back then you could block any non head coach interview request across your entire staff. That rule did change, and just last year, McDaniel was one of the names attached to the candidates for the Dolphins offensive coordinator job. Last year, per reports, He of course returned to San Francisco with the promotion to offensive coordinator. But before his fifteen year coaching career, McDaniel was a player at Yale, where he

graduated with a degree in history. But before that, it was his childhood experience that opened a door into the coaching world. As a youth, McDaniel rode his bike to Denver Broncos training camp, which was on the University of Northern Colorado campus in Greeley, Colorado, close to where he grew up in Aurora. That's where he met Broncos video staffer Gary McCune, who then introduced him to Mike Shanahan, who would later hire McDaniel as a coaching intern in

two thousand five. McDaniel said this in a previous story written on NBC Sports San Francisco. I didn't go into college thinking the endgame was coaching football, but when I started investigating other avenues, it was an easy decision and something I never looked back on. So what's the old saying, do something you'll love and you'll never work a day in your life. Here's what mc daniel said. I had

a summer internship in business. There was some stuff that I investigated and I realized for me to ultimately be satisfied in my career, I had to be passionate about it. And the business stuff he's referring to was investment banking, so obviously very passionate about the sport of football. Let's go ahead and go back to that resume and take a look at what was accomplished in his position rooms as a positional assistant. And we start here in with

the Washington football team Washington Commanders. Pierre Garson led the NFL in receptions that year when he was the receiver's coach with a hundred thirteen catches and one thousand, three hundred forty six yards. As the receiver's coach in Cleveland, Andrew Hawkins played six years in his career and team was his career high in receptions and yards with sixty

eight twenty four. And since the theme of those Shanahan Tree coaching staffs seems to be a collaboration and kind of putting it all together, they also as a team that Brown's team rushed for one thousand, seven hundred tw of eight yards and seventeen touchdowns with Isaiah Crowel and

Terence West. As they're want to punch fast forward to when he was the run game coordinator between seventy with the San Francisco four different leading rushers those four years and building that thing up from twenty first ranked rushing offense to the second ranked rushing offense in a matter of three years with totals of sixteen hundred sixty two yards. The first year nineteen o two, the year that Jimmy

g played just three games. So finding a way to run the football when you have injuries at both the running back and quarterback position, as that Niners team had to find different rushing head rushers or leading rushers, I

should say over the course of those four seasons. Then the next year in nineteen two thousand, three hundred and five yards, three players had over five hundred rushing yards on that Super Bowl appearing team, and they rushed for twenty three touchdowns, and then eighteen hundred eighty nine yards

and nineteen more touchdowns in that final season. As just the run game coordinator over those four years, George Kittle five in fifteen yards, one thousand, three hundred and seventy seven yards, one thousand, fifty three yards, and then last year, I should say, when he missed eight games, six hundred thirty four yards, then in one and fourteen games had nine hundred ten yards. Receiver Marquis Goodwin, who spent time with Buffalo before coming to San Francisco, had a career

high and receiving end yardage in seventeen as well. How about his offensive coordinator season in one the Niners were seventh and rushing with two thousand, one hundred and sixty six yards in the ground. They were eight and yards off play action, and of course they went to the NFC Championship Game. Also, Deebo Samuel this year had one thousand, four hundred and five receiving yards and three hundred sixty five rushing yards. That's seventeen hundred and seventy yards from

scrimmage with fourteen total touchdowns. Pretty good production there from their top playmaker and Mike McDaniels first year as offensive coordinator. What about the other stops for posterity? How about two thousand five, his first year as an intern with the Denver Broncos. They were seventy nine yards away from two one thousand yard rushers and Mike Anderson and Tatum Bell

who had one that year. They rushed for twenty or two thousand, rather five hundred thirty nine yards and twenty five touchdowns and played in the A s C Title game between O six and oh eight with Houston rushed for one thousand, six hundred eighty seven yards one thousand, five hundred eighty six yards. Then they wind up with

Steve Slayton in the third round. As a rookie, he rushes for one thousand, two hundred eighty two yards and nine touchdowns, giving the team one thousand, eight hundred forty six yards in the ground and sixteen touchdowns that season. They averaged a buck fifteen on the ground that year. They also had Andre Johnson to go for fifteen seventy five one year as a receiver on that offense, and then eight fifty one another year and one thousand, one

hundred forty seven another year. Lots of offensive production and these stops from Mike McDaniel like two thousand eleven two thousand twelve with the Washington Commanders, Robert Griffin, the third rushes for eight hundred and fifteen yards that rookie season and sixth round rookie Alfred Morris runs for one thousand,

six hundred and thirteen yards. As a team, they rushed for two thousand, seven hundred nine yards and twenty two touchdowns In two thousand fifteen tw thousand sixteen, he was with the Atlanta Falcons one thousand, six hundred and six yards and thirteen rushing touchdowns and year one and by the way, Julio Jones that year hundred and thirty six grabs, one thousand, eight hundred and seventy one yards and eight touchdowns. That was the third highest receiving total in NFL history.

Then in sixteen it got even better. One thousand, nine hundred twenty eight rushing yards, twenty touchdowns on the ground and a cool eighty three for one thousand, four hundred nine yards for Julio Jones. Davonte Freeman had a career best one thousand, five hundred and forty one yards from scrimmage, but the ball went around the lot and the biggest career achievement was from Matt Ryan. More on that in just a moment. So plenty of rushing production throughout the

course of Mike McDaniel's career. Whatever staff he has been on, whatever role he's held, the consistency there has been rushing and running the football has always been pretty good. He's been on staffs to have won four divisions, been to the playoffs five times, one seven playoff games, and been to four championship games and been to two Super Bowls. He's coached with a hundred and eighteen coaches in his

fifteen year career. That list includes Mike Shanahan, Gary Kubiak, Kyle Shanahan, Matt Lafleur, Robert Sala, Jim has Let, Keenan McCardell Raheem Morris, Mike Petton, Dan Quinn, Terry, Robiskie, Keith Armstrong, Chris Casserk, John Embry To Miko Ryan's, Wes Welker, Mike Lafleur, Richard high Tower, Shane Day. How about quarterbacks who have played on the same squad as Mike McDaniel coaching and

the results. Jake Plumber in two thousand and five had the second best passer rating of his ten year career at ninety point to Matt Shaw between oh seven and oh eight, a ninety point three passer rating, a slight jump over his career average. Robert Griffin the third rookie of the year, one and two point four passer rating, the best of his career and fifteen point nine points

higher than his career average. Brian Hoyer in four teen, with seven and six as a starter he was nine and seventeen otherwise, had a career best thirteen point seven yards per completion and his second best yards per game of his career with two thirty seven point six and his twelve touchdown passes that year with a second most of his entire career. Matt Ryan sixteen won the m v P Award and had career best across the board, including a one seven teen point one passer rating, seventh

best all time. By the way, it was the second time in his career with the passer writing better than one hundred. The other was one oh eight point once almost ten points better in his best year from his second best year, and the solid twenty two point nine points better than his career average of ninety four point two. He had career highs in every major category that season.

Nick Mullins in team started eight games as an undrafted free agent and had ninety point eight passer rating Under the same coaching tree, C J. Bethred has a one oh five point seven passer rating and two starts in and Jimmy Garoppolo's absent, they found a way to get each of three different quarterbacks to play pretty good football at three different times since Kyle Shanahan's arrival there and the last of course being Jimmy Garoppolo, who was a

Super Bowl appearance in a Championship Game appearance, a passer rating of nine point oh upon his arrival. That was his first stretch of really starting in the NFL and a record of five and oh after that nine. Our team began that year one and ten, and that one o two passer rating in their Super Bowl season in nineteen was a career best. He's thirty one and fourteen as the Niner starter. So you look down that list, Jake Plumber, Matt Shob r G three, Brian Jyer, Matt Ryan,

Nick Bole and C. J. Bethart, Jimmy Garoppolo. All those guys really had their games elevated under these coaching staffs that Mike McDaniel was a part of. And we can't sit here and say all the credit goes to one guy or this guy or the other. But it's a nice trend to look at in terms of maximizing the quarterback that you have and getting the best play out of them you possibly can. How about the league wide rushing ranks among all the teams that he has been

a coach on. We mentioned the Niners ranks and rushing since two thousand seventeen, ranking seventh and second in that stretch. He was also a part of coaching staffs to have ranked second best in the NFL and oh five with the Denver Broncos, first inelve with Washington Commanders, and then

fifth with Atlanta Falcons in sixteen. I think it's also impressive that they were able to do in San Francisco with the running game and the commitment to it, especially when you consider the company they kept in that regard and the quarterbacks of those teams in their similar category. You know, overseeing an offense that led the league in two back personnel and posted the third highest rushing attempt rate last season at forty seven point seven percent runs.

The company McDaniels Niners kept at the top of the rushing charts were not like the team in Red and Gold that did just that. Philadelphia and Baltimore paced the NFL and run past balance, but both those teams combined for three and thirty three quarterback carries. Jimmy Garoppolo carried the ball thirty eight times this year, and Trey Lance also carried it thirty eight times in his limited action.

But that's a third of the quarterback rushing. So the Niners found a way to get to that balance without having a quarterback factor in major into the running game. And I want to come back to personnel usage here in just a second, But first I would like to look at some of the trends around the National Football League and what these other coaches off the Shanahan coaching tree and the peers of Mike McDaniel have done with

their opportunities. But first, real quick, before we do that, a short break back here on the Drive Time podcast, taking a look at the fourteenth head coach in the history of the Miami Dolphins. He is Mike McDaniel, formerly of the San Francisco forty Niners, where he was the offensive coordina there last season and the run game coordinator over the previous four years there under Kyle Shanahan, and the success of that Niners team and of that Niners

running game. And I want to go ahead and look around the league at recent hiring trends in terms of offensive versus defense and the success of the coach with their backgrounds and where they have come from in their careers. And we do that here, beginning with this season, this hiring cycle, and taking a look at the coaches hired and where their background was offensively and defensively. So far this year with six hires, five offensively, one defensively in terms of O C versus d C. In it was

five offensive, too defensive. In nineteen it was six offensive and too defensive. How about the teams that played in the Super Bowl and the Final Four and division winners over the last couple of years and where their coaching background came from this last season? Both Super Bowl teams, the Rams and the Bengals are offensive coaches, Zach Taylor and Sean McVeigh, the Final four all of them more offensive coaches as well with with Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan,

and the Super Bowl both offensive coaches. The final four the championship games three offensive, one defensive, and that was the same numbers in twenty nineteen Super Bowl, both coaches offensive backgrounds and the final four teams remaining three offensive and one defensive. What about division winners? In six of the eight head coaches that won their division this last

season had an offensive background. And the Kyle Shanahan, or rather the Mike Shanahan coaching tree that produced Kyle Shanahan, produces more and more coaches here as we go along that are having success all across the National Football League. Sean McVeigh two Super Bowl appearances, five playoff wins, four appearances and five seasons in the playoffs as a head coach, he could be a champion by the next by next

week as well. How about Matt Lafleur blessed winning percentage of all coaches and minimum three seasons coached, three division titles in those three years. Two championship game appearances to playoff wins. How about Kyle Shanahan super Bowl appearance to championship game appearances, one division title to playoff appearances, four playoff wins. How about Sean Taylor broke a thirty plus year playoff drout, playoff win drout the Cincinnati Bengals won

division title and has three playoff wins. This coaching tree has had a lot of success, and I think you see a lot of similarities there too. None of these guys are your classic big intimidating football coaches, their communicators

and their player and powers. In fact, there was a great clip of McDaniel talking about providing value to his players and kind of the need to prove himself as providing value because he didn't have that traditional playing background that provided him with an inherent resume that players could say, yeah, that guy did it and did this and this and that, of course, so of course I'm going to trust him.

So here's coach McDaniel on finding what fits his players skill sets and going ahead with that challenge yourself to do what to do things that fit your players skill sets and what makes them most comfortable You try to avoid well, we've always done it this way. UM, So you're so you're evolving to UM whatever your players skill sets are. And as you spend more time with them and UM learn the ins and outs of how they play, you recognize, well, this is UM. You know, Jimmy's a

lot more decisive UM in the gun. He likes to see it. He's delivering tight window throws. How do we implement that more without losing the greatest advantage you have offensively, which is you know the play and they don't minimizing past exclusive UH situations which on first and second down you can do if you have the threat of run out of gun. UM. And we've just kind of evolved, you know, Kyle in two thousand nineteen, really UM started noticing that and put pressure on us to evolve our UM,

our gun run package, and UM. Every week you you figure out different ways to do um some of the same things, maybe a couple of wrinkles UM, but keep that keep the defense on ut with without being past exclusive in any situation other than third six plus or whatever. That's a common theme there, and there's another common theme

for those teams, really, every single one of them. And we've been on the idea of the run game, and we'll dive into that more as we paint the future of the league as an offensive one, and I think that would include more of a passing league, right, but also the strength of having the running game, and I like the idea of sort of zigging when the rest of the league zags. And that's not to say there isn't a passing game. That wouldn't be factual at all.

But the ability to run the football just creates a way to win that not every team has, not even every top offense has. And we saw it really compliments some teams in their post season pushes, like the forty niners. We saw the Bengals get really to the running game in the a f C Championship game when they were getting enough stops to continue running the football, even trelling on the scoreboard. And Joe Mix and got things going down,

multiple scores in that game. Game the more ways you have to win in a league where the running game is, you know, not bordering on extinct, but definitely becoming less of a priority to the passing game. Having that ability is one way you often see those big time quarterbacks toppled late in January. What about personnel usage? For the history of Mike McDaniel and National Football League, we continue to look at what he's done in his coaching career.

And none of this is to say to say that the Dolphins offense will be designed exactly like this, but these are just for information sake, the styles of offenses that Mike McDaniel has been a part of. And you look over the last five years with San Francisco forty niners, it's been primarily in the thirty nine to forty eight percent range for eleven personnel, that's typically one of the lowest uses in the National Football League. Those are three

receiver sets, eleven personnel, now twelve personnel. It ranges between ten and eighteen percent over those four years, but it's consistently around ten twelve percent, and then twenty one personnel's where you get a big jump it's two backs, and of as we know about Kyle. You check there in San Francisco signed the first year with my with Kyle Shanahan, and it's ranging between twenty percent and forty one percent of one personnel, and then you have between seven and

eleven percent out of two personnel. That's two backs, two tight ends. I don't have the complete numbers before those years, but I did find a story from Football Outsiders that detailed that from seventeen Kyle Shanahan led offenses the same Falcons and forty Niners teams that McDaniel was with lad

the National Football League in twenty one personnel. Which is interesting, however, is that in seventeen the Niners went from twenty six percent one personnelity when using Brian Hoyer and c. J. Bethor to quarterback that year, then after training Jimmy Garoppolo, that number jumped up sixteen percentage points to forty two percent.

So again going back to the idea what Mike McDonald just told us on that press conference previously with the forty Niners, that you want to put the offense in position to do what they do best to get the ultimate success. So around the fifteen year coaching career, variety, good knowledge base of multiple systems and concepts and ideas makes it coach more adaptable tourist players like they were with Deebo Samuel In. More on that in just one moment.

But to round out what I do, have access to the Falcons in number one offense eleven personnel of the time that was third lowest in the National Football League, and the Dolphins this last year had the lowest eleven personnel usage in the NFL. Just an interesting fact to me. How about some further notes on this offense or the offenses ran rather in McDaniels past. We'll do that next and hear some testimonials from those players that ran those systems.

But real quick, how about a little bit of personality from coach. Let's go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel earlier this year in a press conference as a member of the forty niners. Excited to be here, Uh, equally excited for you guys to truly take in how physically imposing I am so little? Self deprecating humor goes a

long way, alright, testimonies next Drivetime podcast, Travis Winfeld. This is the Mike McDaniel intro episode, We're back here on the Drivetime podcast getting to know new Dolphins head coach

Mike McDaniel and picking up where he left off. I thought it was nice to see the forty Niners offense get some serious postseason run against some of the best teams in the National Football League to help us get that first hand look at some game plans, the focuses of that offense and just the way they game planned, adjusted and called their games under offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel. And then that first playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys.

Former Dallas quarterback Troy Aikman made a point after the game about the Cowboys and this observation that he had that he thinks a lot of NFL teams will go to this idea that sometimes they want to play more to their scheme, and he thinks that you should sometimes go more towards taking advantage of one on one matchups against your best players on offense. And he said that in his experience, most of the young offensive minds that go and there a lot of praise across the league,

that they can be insistent that their scheme works. It can make any player play like a pro bowler because nobody can stop the system. How this ties back to the Dolphins and what we just talked about with empowering your players to do what they do best. After a fifth loss in the niners first eight games this season, the offense pivoted around their most explosive offensive weapon, all

Pro receiver Deebo Samuel. Entering a Week ten game versus the Rams, Samuel had six rushing attempts on the season. He nearly matched that total with five attempts for thirty six yards and a touchdown, just starting to scratch the surface on his ability as a ball carrier. From Week ten through the Niners Championship Game exit against the Rams, Samuel carried the ball eight times for four hundred and eighty yards at six yards per rush, and seven touchdowns.

Here's what McDaniel had to say about that, the evolution of how we use Debo. That's a product of two things, him being a really good football player, and I think Kyle Shanahan does an outstanding job of really pushing his staff to open their minds and see what's there maybe that we haven't done, or really think through the wise of everything that we do. So that combination of a skill set with a particular player and the drive that Kyle has been pushing on me since the day I

started working with him. Those type of things end up rendering the results that you guys are seeing. From a whole staff perspective, we're all committed to utilizing our players the best way we can, and it wasn't so much a position change for Samuel, but rather an approach that would create more opportunities for the Niners offense to get

the ball in the hands of its best player. Samuel also added thirty eight catches for six hundred and seventy seven yards and three more touchdowns in those final eleven games, giving him one thousand, one hundred fifty seven yards from scrimmage and ten total touchdowns during San Francisco's nine and three march to the conference championship games, so just about a hundred yards from scrimmage and a touchdown per game

for their best player. Mike McDaniel and his coaching clinics and clips you've seen online by now always makes it about the player, how to provide value to the player, and how to create opportunities for that player to excel, just like they're with Deebo Samuel, And that's not plugging Samuel into whatever role you think the scheme provides him the best chance. It's maximizing what he does well and

adapting it to fit accordingly. Let's go back to Coach and hear from him when he was at a round table with Coach McVeigh and La Fleura talking about what players want from their coaches. A players want is for someone to be doing their best to maximize them as players and people. And if they can see that you're doing that in an honest way and you're in you're very passionate committed to it. But early on in the week, the first thing he'll end up telling me is how

does this player play combinations? So backside of three technique, backside B and this play is awesome because of his technique and what he's probably your problem solving all that stuff with how they're defending and how they can possibly one hitch to the high cross, second hitch to the flat. Then once guys get comfortable with that, we're gonna make you read the seven and the high cross both on one and see if you can make the throw a

rip it on one hitch. If you can't second and everything we build, our whole protection scheme is for linemen to protect second hitches. Okay, you should get two hitches in our offense anything that we do unless you're hot and you have a hot answer, okay, so you don't want to speed through that process. That's why all that detail is important. Think of progressions as quarterbacks. Is that someone says it's one to two. We just said that's one and that's two. The defense has to take one away.

If he's in between and you say, oh, I'm gonna be and you want to check it down, well, now he's gonna be all over your checkdown. Your checkdown is not gonna be open. Make them take away one before you got to miss people's reps. Okay, you gotta see other people do it. You gotta steal extra reps and you gotta hear what say sage says to people. So

make sure and you're off rep to locky dialogue. Hey man, you weren't at seven, you weren't five, but never misreps at quarterback, I have to take it away, make me take it away, or make me pay. So that was a mash up there of coach McDaniel talking about his philosophy a little bit, coaching some high school quarterbacks at a quarterback camp there as well, and talking about what

he wants to see out of practice reps. Plenty of good stuff there from coach, and I want to go ahead and now play a clip where he was asked about a little bit of a unique thing the forty's offense did this year in terms of pitching the ball on these inside runs opposed the traditional handoff. Here's coach McDaniel answering reporter's question as a member of the forty

coaching staff. Not a dumb question. The value is what you just said is the you you do that when you feel like the uh, there's something that the defense is keyed on, and when you when the quarterback reverses out and tosses the ball that you might get overplay um or you know, there's there's a ton of different variables, but that would be it in itself. It's the usual. So you try to be sound. But also, you know, just get defenses a hair off, um, because if they're

a hair off, that gives us an advantage. And with a lot of players that were very confident in that, that can be the difference in three yards or fifteen yards. So there's some philosophies and ideas that we're gonna do more later on the Drivetime podcast about what the offense and defense has looked like, and more of a film deep dive kind of an All twenty two review offseason

edition here of the forty Niners offense. But I want to continue this podcast by going around and getting some testimonials from those that have worked with new Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel. And the best part about the testimonials here is that they come from every stop of his career, and there have been a lot as we previously demonstrated. Kyle Shanahan for instance, quote, Mike's a good dude. He's

really good at what he does, and he's himself. He's one of the smartest coaches I've ever been around, and he's been huge to our team and huge for me throughout my entire career. End quote. Some quotes here from Joe Shadow the Palm Beach Post talking to some former players. Pierre garconon, first, I think he would do very well, and I would love for him to be the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. That was a previous quote. He's very innovative. He can communicate. Offense is obviously his thing.

He creates high expectations for his players. He will put his players in the right position. I know he can communicate well, so the players understand what he's asking them to do. He's a very smart guy. He went to Yale. He's a great football mine. He can figure anything out and learn how to communicate it with the players. The key in football is communicating with the players and to be smart. And he's very savvy, very down to earth.

He's a players coach. The players actually like him. Also from that same article, Matt Brita, a former Niners running back, says quote, he understands formations and motions. We had a lot of formations but ran the same runs out of them. He just looks at things differently. It's not always so complicated. It's the players and how they use them. Look at Deebo Samuel. He had been there for two years, but they found a way to get him involved in the

running game. It's about how you use your players. They know the players strengths, get them in space with power, being able to motion or move your guys around. How many times have you seen an offensive tackle like Trent Williams go in motion? How many times that's causes a lot of problems for opposing defenses. Kyle us check on Twitter when they found out that he was coming back a couple of years back. Absolute best in the game.

Nobody gets more out of his players than coach McDaniel, most creative run scheme out there, So deserving of this promotion to O C for the Niners last year. How about George Kittle talking about joking about rather putting it in his contract that Mike McDaniel can't leave the forty niner because he was so value valuable to their offense in the running game. Andrew Hawkins, who played with McDaniel

in Cleveland. Hawkins said that he would put up anything that no other candidate understands offensive football the way McDaniel does. How about some audio testimonials here, going back to legendary forty Niners offensive tackle Joe Staley talking about Mike McDaniel. I think it's surprising that people are just figuring it out. You know how much he really does have behind the scenes.

You know, Kyle gets a lot of the attention because he has the offensive mastermind and he kind of pieces everything together, but the construction of a lot of the plays, especially the run game, is through Mike McDaniels and it has been for a long time. Um, he is a wizard when it comes up to different personnel, groupings, formations, how to utilize people, put it in a position to succeed, and that's what you want as a coach, you know.

I think it's not surprising to me now that he's getting a chance, and I think he will get that chance, whether it's this year, next year, down the line. He definitely deserves it. And he's a great leader, communicator, effective, all the things you look as in a head coach. And I always thought that about Sala in his first couple of years, that he was gonna eventually be a head coach, and it just took a couple of years

further on than what I thought. But it's great that he's getting these interviews now and you know, hopefully that the Niners are able to keep him for another year or two. So you heard Josie, they're talking about New Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel. He also mentioned Robert Salo, the head coach of the New York Jets who said maybe McDaniel coming to the ANFC East might not be

the best thing for him. You know, Mike is a He is phenomenal, his absolute, his mindset, the way he creates things, his creativity, his outside the box thinking, his ability to communicate with people. Um, he's as he's as good as they did. And uh, you know he's been with Kyle for longer than any of us have. He's been there since he and I were qc is sitting

across from each other with Houston Texans back in oh six. So, uh, he's brilliant and he's he's every bit as deserving to be a head coach, and uh would not like him to come to the division, but if it, if it happens, so be it. So plenty of good stuff from those that have worked with coach. Let's go back to some previous content and previous interviews with Mike McDaniel. Here he is talking about the things he learned from the coaches he's been around, plenty of good ones and really accomplished

ones in his career. They're detailed, and they are very particular and reasoned right wrong or in different They have a reason for everything. They're doing. You treat people as our own men and give them liberties, but also um make them very accountable for everything that they do. Go ahead and finish up here with two more clips about coach talking about the why behind certain things and how

to explain that to your players. One thing that we need to our process and it started um with him in Washington on Friday's is we watched Thursday's first period of team which we call team run, which is all

run emphasis UM and a team. We watched that period intercut with the wise of what we're running on Friday in front of the whole team off for the whole offense, with the reason being that you get what you emphasize if you devote an entire meeting simply on the plan of attack in the run game and then involved and show how this is not a touchdown if the receiver. You know, it's not like we're a bunch of coaches. I'm definitely not, and Kyle Shane it's not. We don't.

We We show people and give reason as to why we're doing stuff and get them to buy in. Not necessarily for us, maybe it is, but it's for the teammates. So we have this clinic, tape wide and push crack. And people have always commented on Shanahan's receivers and the way they block. It's because he takes the time to emphasize it, and you get what you emphasized. And the way you emphasize it is you hold everyone accountable to each other, say do you want to run four hard plays?

Because we can, but I promise you. So we're trying to get explosive runs. Receivers have to block safeties and corners with proper technique, And then coaches comments about teaching the player the why, and so when he starts hit tackling us in the ear, we should be saying we need keepers. And we tell our quarterbacks to think that way. Um and the running backs. We try to commune that communicate that as best as possible so everyone knows at

the end of the day. Players may never not know exactly why we're running anything, but they know we're running it for a purpose, and they share the vision with us, and we're always are articulating that because they in a perfect world, they'll tell you what plays we should run and uh not us tell them. Alright, I feel like I've given you a pretty good idea of who the new four head coach and the history of the Miami

Dolphins Mike McDaniel Who he is. We have plenty more content coming your way this week, including an interview with the newest head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Mike McDaniel is going to join me here on a future edition of the Drivetime podcast. Will also break down all kinds of fun stuff, taking a look at who rounds out

the coaching staff under McDaniel. We'll take a look at the tape, talk about prototypes, all that fun stuff, how our potential resources could go into building this football team around Mike McDaniel's vision for this club. Plenty of fun stuff coming your way here on Drivetime, on Miami Dolphins dot com, everywhere we are. Go ahead and keep it locked right there and get the latest on the newest head coach of the Miami Dolphins. All right, let's go ahead and get out of here for this edition of

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