Will Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel’s Unconventional Style Work in Miami?

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🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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New Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel doesn’t look or sound like other NFL head coaches. He’s young, self-deprecating, and his press conference sound bites are plastered all over social media. But just a year ago, few NFL fans knew who he was at all. So we called up our Dolphins beat reporter Marcel Louis-Jacques, to understand how McDaniel made the jump from boy-genius offensive coordinator with San Francisco…and whether his unconventional style can work now that he is the man in charge in Miami. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mars L. Louis Jacques, our Miami Dolphins beat writer.
0:03.6	For a couple months now, you've had a front row seat for the debut of a new personality
0:09.8	that I find as fascinating straight up as any other in the NFL at this point.
0:15.9	And so this week ahead of game one of Mike McDaniel's head coaching career, what did you want
0:21.1	to ask him about?
0:22.5	Yeah, you know, the question that I sat up all night thinking about heart pounding.
0:29.9	You know, like a lot of players say that they're nervous before a game, right?
0:34.2	And it takes that first hit, you know, with their tongue kick off, or first time they touch
0:38.2	the ball, or first snap.
0:39.9	They need to be hit in order to really feel comfortable.
0:42.0	So I brought that up to Mike.
0:44.2	Some players say that like they need to be hit before they really feel comfortable in
0:48.1	a game is facing Bill Belichick in your first regular season NFL field game, like the
0:53.3	coaching equivalent of that.
0:55.1	And in just his like typical deadpan manner is like, yeah, I mean, it can be a little
0:59.9	bit more, but I think there'd be a larger disparity in career win lost total.
1:04.1	Yeah, with 290 wins for Bill Belichick, the greatest of all time to zero.
1:10.4	A hard zero.
1:12.4	It's a goose egg.
1:13.4	It would be a bigger deal.
1:14.4	I think if Coach Belichick and I were on the field, maybe doing like an Oklahoma drill,
1:20.5	but I don't foresee that happening.
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