Mike McDaniel FIRED As Dolphins Head Coach | Instant Reaction, Possible Replacements & MORE!
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Mike Renner and JP Acosta react to the Miami Dolphins firing Mike McDaniel as their head coach following Week 18.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into Pushing the pile brought to you by Fando Sports Book Make Every Moment more. |
| 0:18.6 | JP, I thought we were done. |
| 0:20.3 | I'll be honest, with the breaking emergency pods, it is Thursday, January 8th. |
| 0:28.5 | I thought by this time, everyone would kind of have had the conversations with their head coaches to know who's there next year and who's not. |
| 0:35.9 | But apparently, the dolphins run at a little bit different pace. |
| 0:39.5 | They announced today Mike McDaniel out after the head coach. |
| 0:43.0 | Despite the bounce back after a one in six start, |
| 0:46.6 | we thought that might have saved his job. |
| 0:48.2 | Well, it didn't. |
| 0:49.4 | Out after four seasons. |
| 0:50.6 | He was 35 and 33 in his career. |
| 0:53.3 | There are no playoff wins for Miami. This one, |
| 0:57.5 | I'm surprised. I guess I'm surprised mainly because they didn't do it earlier. But when it came to |
| 1:06.3 | sort of the on-field results, you can't continue to have a team that falls apart at the end of the |
| 1:13.4 | season and continue to say, like, yeah, like, that's the guy for the job. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, I do think Mike McDaniel is a great play caller. |
| 1:21.7 | I think he's a great coordinator. |
| 1:24.3 | His team's continuing to fall apart once it like it's the cold weather thing but also like |
| 1:31.2 | the teams falling apart at the slightest like physicality is the biggest thing that you're |
| 1:38.7 | remember Mike McDaniel's coaching tenure as this team gets beat up by more physical teams. And the fact that they're |
| 1:46.2 | always the one, the fact they're always the punching bag isn't a great sign for somebody as a |
| 1:52.5 | head coach. Now, it's tough because, like, again, he is such a great play caller that I think, |
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