Chargers plan to hire Mike McDaniel as OC + Former Bills HC Sean McDermott’s roster concerns were ignored (1/21 Hour 2)
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Mike Florio
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What are the characteristics that you're looking for in a new offense? |
| 0:05.2 | A head coach of the offense. |
| 0:10.3 | That person that teaches, installs, put the players in the best position to be successful. |
| 0:25.0 | Okay. position to be to be successful. Jim Harbaugh. I love Jim Harbaugh, but it always seems to me at a press conference |
| 0:30.0 | as if he is trying to project words onto an invisible teleprompter and read them, |
| 0:35.2 | that he's so careful about not saying anything, and he wants to win everything. |
| 0:39.4 | I want to win the press conference. |
| 0:40.9 | So as I am speaking extemporaneously, I am editing myself. |
| 0:46.0 | I am putting my ideas in front of my eyes, and as I read the words I'm asking myself, is this the right word to say? |
| 0:52.8 | And dueling banjo press conferences |
| 0:55.0 | between Jim Harbaugh and Mike McDaniel, if he does indeed end up being the offensive |
| 0:59.5 | coordinator of the LA Chargers, that would be worth the price of admission. Because they are both |
| 1:05.7 | very quirky, they are both very authentic, they are both very unique, and they both have a style that I don't know that it's going to fit, |
| 1:14.6 | but we saw it last night, the usual suspects rushing to Twitter with the news, |
| 1:18.8 | all of them landing within minutes each other that Mike McDaniel has agreed to terms to become the offensive coordinator of the LA Chargers, which needs something, |
| 1:31.0 | something other than another excuse for Justin Herbert's chronic failure to live up to his |
| 1:35.1 | potential. They need something to get him to live up to his potential. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, I want to give Harbaugh credit for this because he goes way back with Greg Roman, |
| 1:47.9 | you know, going back to the college days. You know, Greg Roman and Jim Harbaugh, hand in hand. |
| 1:53.1 | And this is something a little different. I don't know. I'm put the cameras on. Give me some |
| 1:59.1 | behind the scenes access. I'd love to be in a meeting with |
| 2:02.4 | jim harbaw and mike mcdaniel it seems like uh kind of like a a reboot of the odd couple but |
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