Miami Dolphins' head coach Mike McDaniel not worried about job security.
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Miami Dolphins' head coach Mike McDaniel not worried about job security.
Things are quickly escalating from bad to down right weird in South Beach for the Miami Dolphins. A handful of offseason injuries casted a cloud of doubt over the season before it began. An embarrassing Week 1 loss brought the team’s struggles to the national stage. Then stories from within the building made matters worse.
This cultivated in a fan starting a go fund me and taking it among themselves to fly a “Fire Grier, Fire McDaniel” flag over Hard Rock Stadium via an airplane during the team’s Week 2 loss to the New England Patriots.
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨
MIAMI DOLPHINS FANS HIRE PLANE TO FLY “FIRE GRIER FIRE MCDANIEL”
Dolphins Fans not happy with their team pic.twitter.com/Mt4VTVOMjm
— El Capitan (Chris) The Fins Tail Gate (@thefinstailgate) September 14, 2025
After the loss, coach McDaniel was asked about the banner.
“I was coaching and calling a football game,” McDaniel said. “I wasn’t spending my time considering what the fans were doing at all. Fans want their team to win, so I figure that if we win football games, I don’t think it’s personal. I think they want to win, and so do I.”
Viral Win/Lose Quote
A fan hiring a pilot to publicly call for the job of him and his boss was out of his control. However, he didn’t quite do himself any favors after yet another bizarre press conference response later in the session.
“To win games, you have to win the game and not lose the game, honestly. And that is how you lose the game,” coach McDaniel said.
This moment has gone viral on NFL social media, and not in a good way.
“Uhm, we’re, to win games you have to win the game, umm, not lose the game… honestly. And that, that is how you lose the game.”
— Mike McDaniel on Dolphins Week 2 loss to the Patriots
Oh, brother… 🤦🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/63B3hVMQPM
— Don Shula Corleone (@DonShulaCorleon) September 14, 2025
This tweet has more than three million views at this point in time, with 1.5 thousand people responding to chime in with their opinions on the head coach’s job security.
Among the hundreds of tweets calling for his firing, one fan lit an ACTUAL fire on a Mike McDaniel shirt. Which, if you’re a long time NFL fan, you know is usually the final stage of outrage.
Many fans maintain that, while McDaniel’s quirks were amusing when the team was winning… When the team starts 0-2 and looks to be on route to miss the playoffs for a second straight season, it wears thin.
“Billy, this is Mike McDaniel. They call him an offensive genius, he wears really cool sneakers and other fashion accessories, and he says fun quirky things sometimes during his press conferences. His defect is that he simply can’t coach and isn’t a leader of men.” pic.twitter.com/E8qarnXzsR
— Don Shula Corleone (@DonShulaCorleon) September 15, 2025
Other Notable Moments
McDaniel says that Thursday Night Football matchup with AFC East rival Buffalo Bills is actually a blessing in disguise.
“I think I tried to make it very, very clear last night and my expectation talking to the guys that I’ve talked to today, is that our focus is super clear and it’s pretty obvious,” McDaniel said Monday. “Thursday night games, after a loss they can be a blessing because you have no time to think about anything else and quite literally I can paint a picture that I think the team is understanding, is that every moment that you spend thinking about anything but the opponent is going to serve you in the worst.”
In that same vain, McDaniel was asked about how he can stay focused on Buffalo amidst all the things that have gone on regarding the fan base calling for his job.
“Buffalo. Which as I see it, it’s plain and simple – it’s my job. Again, there’s all sorts of things said negative, there’s stuff said positive. I’m very understanding that in this business it’s result-based. My job is to, the more that other people talk about anything, the less I even hear it. Buffalo, that’s what it is and the Miami Dolphins.”
When asked if his message was being received in the locker room, McDaniel had this to say.
“I think if there was anything that would lend me to believe that messages weren’t being received, then you address those things. To me I think I’ve seen a team that is trying to do everything they can to win and coming up short and pressing forward and trying to change that result. So just based upon witnessing actions, that hasn’t come across my plate until you asked.”