McDaniel Moments Highlights from a One-o

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McDaniel Moments Highlights from a One-o

INDIANAPOLIS Before the 2022 scouting combine went into high gear earlier this week, new Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel conducted one-on-one interviews with local beat writers.As Dolphins fans have seen in every national interview or pre s conducted he's conducted since being hired a month ago, McDaniel offers thoughtful, expansive answers to every question and often throws a quip and a self-deprecating line.These were the highlights from McDaniel's conversation with SI Fan Nation All Dolphins:McDaniel has made the media rounds since taking over as Dolphins head coach, which is quite a contrast from previous head coaches the team employed.The reason he's been so generous in giving time to the media is simple is his understanding that that reporters serve as a ve sel between the team and its fans, plus there's some reminiscing to his days as a youth in Colorado."Being a Denver Broncos fan living in Greeley, Colorado, which is like 70 miles south of Denver, I'm not having acce s to the team but the summer camps and stuff and I just vividly remember opening the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News when I was young and finding out information from Adam Schefter and Woody Paige. And so that's kind of stuck with me, I gue s. It's like common sense, like you guys are the ve sel that I just Vance McDonald Jersey know there's kids out there like that and people and fans that you connect A to B."It's always been really weird to me how people get all up in their own head and act like you guys are trying to do something other than your jobs. Yeah, there's some people that have more integrity than others in the profe sion, but isn't that the same for every profe sion that exists on the planet? ... Maybe it's my introduction, I gue s, to football in general and following it and the media, I just recognized, was the Jack Lambert Jersey way that I could get my fix to the inner workings and I remember how my my spring changed back in '93 or something (1994, to be precise) when the Broncos signed Anthony Miller and Mike Pritchard in the offseason and I was just so geeked about that and the coverage of them and learning about them satisfied me until there was preseason games till I could see them. I remember coverage about Glyn Milburn coming out, Rod Berstine being signed from the Chargers to the Broncos. The list goes on and on, and these are all things that."The humble beginnings and being being a non-like 5-, 4-, 3-star athlete and just dreaming about the NFL, I think i've paid attention along the way."Yep, this is a thing.The term "genius" has been used countle s by those who have worked with McDaniel since he became a candidate to become head coach and after he was hired, and it's very obvious in listening to the Yale-educated McDaniel that he's pretty sharp.But with that tag comes perhaps unrealistic expectations about what McDaniel can produce in terms of game plans for the Dolphins, a po sibility McDaniel fully understands.Before we get to the question, McDaniel jokes that he's never heard or read that (spoiler alert: he has) and then jokes that saying that has earned me more "air time" for our interview.Then he gets serious."I've been fortunate to be in the NFL since I was 22," he said. "One thing I have learned is if you take anything too literal, it can only harm you.It is nice before we've played a game for people to say very nice things about me, that is nice.I don't give it much credence. I know what's Louis Lipps Jersey going to happen when we lose two games in a row.And that's part of the busine s. If you want to be a head coach in NFL, you better be prepared for that. And you better not just get enamored with the niceties that people portray on you. I've had some people that I've worked with, and certainly the the person that signs my checks and hired me, I've heard him use it. So I don't want to disparage any of those. I appreciate it.Scroll to Continue"I'm not really mimicking anybody. It's just me and I figured that would resonate with some people. But if it didn't, that's OK too. And if people call me a genius, that's cool.When stuff works, there'll be high-fives and all the genius guys will be like, 'Yes, see? Genius.' And then all the guys may give me an out and blame it on something else if if stuff doesn't work and then the naysayers will be as loud as ever the second you lose, and that's OK.There's a lot at stake but you're also applying stuff that you've been working on since; for me, the second I got out of college, this is what I've been working on. So I'm prepared for all that and it is nice to hear nice things, I suppose. But it's hard for it not to feel like a setup. Or it's like, all right, well, it's just nice.There are worse things to be called."There are two ways of looking at this, first that the Dolphins are knocking at the door because they were a game away from making the playoffs each of the past two seasons and second that there's work to do when you consider Artie Burns Jersey that in the money games those past two seasons they lost by 30 at Buffalo and by 31 at Tenne see."I mean, it would be irresponsible if I answer that question before free agency in the draft in a concrete way, but abstractly, I mean, very close as close as one game out. And we have a bunch of young talent. I have a coaching staff that is very, very talented and very invested in the players, and I expect all the players to be better. So my expectations is that we continue to progre s with what has been started here because it's been one game out both years, e sentially."All I know is the players that I've talked to in the locker room in the building everybody's ready to take that next step. And that's all of our goals is to take that next step .... and close? They've already been close. I'd like to progre s further. And so whatever that means ... I've been in the league long enough to stay away from stamped headlines. A lot of things can happen, but I can tell you that the expectations are to move forward. And when you're a game away, I'll let you fill in the dots."Based on his five-year stint with the 49ers and that team's overall succe s running the ball, it's reasonable to think the Dolphins offense will look a lot like what was done in San Francisco, just like it's reasonable to expect very few changes on defense after coordinator Josh Boyer and several a sistants were retained.But things won't be exactly the same in either case, as McDaniel so eloquently explained."I think this from a starting point, the foundational elements will be the same," McDaniel started."... One thing that I know myself and (offensive coordinator) Frank Smith and Josh Boyer all T. J. Watt Jersey believe and that's one of the reasons I was drawn to both of them is tailoring your scheme to your individuals' skill sets so that you are kind of a standalone. We're the Dolphins and it's the Dolphins 2022. And we all believe things shouldn't look the same for the sake of looking the same. I'm very anti "because we've done it this way in the past." It's about who we are
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