Hey, it's a special edition of PFTPM, and it's extra special, extra special, extra

prima good, because we got Chris Sims for this one.

We just finished the joint megapix podcast, and while we were taping it,

Mike McDaniel fired by the Miami Dolphins. We haven't had a chance to really talk about it.

We mentioned it in passing during the picks podcast. We knew this was a possibility because of the

GM change, and it's inherently dysfunctional to hire a new GM and keep the coach because

the new GM is going to want to hire his own coach. So it's always been kind of percolating.

But in recent days, it felt like McDaniel was pretty confident that he was going to survive this.

He said he was involved in the GM interviews. Apparently that didn't go well. No, I'm a little surprised. I am. You know, I, apparently that didn't go well.

No, I'm a little surprised. I am.

Usually, I mean, Thursday, after a Sunday game, you start to feel like, okay, you know,

they're staying with them, right?

This many days go by and then the decisions made.

And like you said, we saw Mike McDaniel go up there

and he talked about nobody said anything to me. I think I'm going to be a part of the GM search.

I wonder what changed. Or if this was the plan altogether, did something happen when they met

and they disagreed on, you know, the direction of the franchise? I don't know.

But Mike McDaniel is going to be in demand in some capacity, probably a little bit as a head coach, and definitely as an O.C. That's for sure. And you know my thoughts on Mike McDaniel, all right? I mean, in a lot of ways, I don't think he should have been fired. I've been saying that for quite some time here. I mean, the whole NFL was obsessed with Mike McDaniel.

For three years, they were the most fun. been fired. I've been saying that for quite some time here. I mean, the whole NFL was obsessed with

Mike McDaniel for three years. They were the most fun watching football because of his offense.

Everybody stole his plays and his ideas. He was on the cutting edge with a quarterback that can't

throw the ball past 15 yards and can't run and scramble or do anything of that too. And then with the GM who, yeah, they fired, who didn't set up the team. And as you've heard me say, it was obsessed with stars, bad contracts, bad trades, not the best draft picks in the world and all that. And I don't think that should have fell on Mike McDaniel. But either way, it did.

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