Why Mike McDaniel Should Turn Down the Miami Dolphins Head Coaching Job

It's the Dolphins.

Grant Cohn | Feb 2, 2022

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Mike McDaniel has a difficult decision to make.

He currently seems to be the frontrunner to become the next head coach of the Miami Dolphins. A remarkable accomplishment, considering he has been an offensive coordinator for only season and he doesn't even call plays -- Kyle Shanahan does. It's unclear what exactly McDaniel does on his own, so he probably should jump at the first head-coaching opportunity that comes his way. He might not get another one.

But, it's the Dolphins.

They're a toxic frachise. They just fired a head coach who had back-to-back winning seasons -- a feat no Dolphins head coach has accomplished since 2003. This coach, Brian Flores, is filing a class action lawsuit against the NFL for racist hiring practices, and he alleges Dolphins owner Stephen Ross pressured him to tank for Tua Tagovailoa in 2019, even went as far as to offer him a $100,000 bonus for every loss, plus set up a meeting between him and Deshaun Watson that would have been considered tampering had Flores not put a stop to it.

McDaniel should run from this franchise.

Seriously. He should cancel his interview and stay with the 49ers for another season. Because the Dolphins won't help McDaniel's career. He'll instantly become associated with their messy business practices, plus they'll force him to work with a subpar quarterback (Tagovailoa), and he most likely will get fired after three seasons, which will leave a black mark on his resume.

Make the smart decision, Mike.

Just say no to Miami.

Published Feb 2, 2022

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.