Dolphins fire Mike McDaniel + What’s next for Dolphins and McDaniel? (1/9 Hour 1)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

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4.3 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Hour 1: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Michael Holley (@MichaelSHolley) discuss latest news in NFL including Dolphins firing Mike McDaniel, looking at possible destinations for McDaniel, and rating the desirability of Dolphins’ open head coaching job.

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0:00.0	Coming up today on PFT Live, Mike McDaniel's days as Dolphins head coach are over.
0:04.1	Can any coach find a winning formula in Miami?
0:07.3	We'll preview the Wild Card weekend games in the AFC and the NFC.
0:10.8	And another day, another shot taken by Aaron Rogers at one of his former teams.
0:15.3	PFT Live starts right after this.
0:20.2	Every day that I'm employed by the Miami Dolphins as the head coach,
0:24.7	I'm solely focused on doing what I was hired here to do.
0:28.9	And eventually, like everybody else in this league,
0:33.2	you're not entitled to these positions.
0:35.4	And if, you know, if I'm not able to win regular season games
0:38.4	playoff games Super Bowls eventually the job won't be mine and I think that that is the
0:44.7	nature of the NFL and shame on you if you expect anything else that was Mike McDaniel just three days before he no longer was the head coach in the Miami Dolphins.
1:00.7	It just underscores what a crazy business the NFL is and professional sports and all big time sports generally.
1:08.4	If you don't win enough games, you're not going to be there. The problem
1:12.7	is there's a finite number of games for everyone to win. And you either win or you lose. And if you
1:19.0	lose, we've now seen 25% turnover this year. In a year that many thought was going to be quiet,
1:26.1	two were sure, six more have been added and there could be to be quiet. Two were sure.
1:31.1	Six more have been added, and there could be more to come.
1:34.3	Two hours to come on this Friday edition of PFT Live.
1:35.2	He's Michael Hawley.
1:36.6	I'm Mike Florio.
1:39.4	We're trying our best to not join that list.
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