Beleagured Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel sprinted off the field after his team's blowout 28-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens amid rumors about his job secuity
00:14 ET, 31 Oct 2025Updated 00:14 ET, 31 Oct 2025
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Mike McDaniel's Miami Dolphins are 2-7 after a loss to the Baltimore Ravens(Image: Getty Images)
2025 hasn't been a season to remember for Mike McDaniel and the Miami Dolphins, a trend that continued Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens. He showed plenty of emotion during a relatively nippy first half as his team hung around, but the floodgates opened in the second and Miami lost 28-6.
After shaking hands with Baltimore coach John Harbaugh at midfield, McDaniel didn't look to linger on the Hard Rock stadium turf for long: Amazon Prime cameras captured the Dolphins boss running rather quickly to the locker room.
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McDaniel has faced calls for his job all season, calls that will only grow louder with Miami sitting 2-7 and surely out of the AFC playoff picture.
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The Dolphins fans seemed tuned out, too: there were plenty of empty seats in the fourth quarter. "Sometimes when a crowd leaves early, it's to beat the traffic," Amazon play-by-play man Al Michaels said. "On a night like tonight, if you leave early, you're going to get into the teeth of the traffic."
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Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was neither great nor poor against Baltimore, completing 25 of his 40 passes for 261 yards and an interception.
"We were off a little bit here, off a little bit there," the Dolphins quarterback said during a relatively mild postgame press conference (for his standards). "And when we did find our flow, we had penalties, we had some issues. It starts with me."
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The McDaniel-Tagovailoa pairing may be nearing an end in Miami(Image: Getty Images)
The Dolphins weren't played off the field by the Ravens. They were only outyarded 338 ot 332. Both teams committed five penalties and reached the red zone three times, where Baltimore went 3-3 and Miami went 0-3. The Dolphins also turned the ball over three times.
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"It's not about energy, it's about execution," defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick said about the second half as the team's deficit ballooned from 14-6 to 28-6.
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After a blowout loss to the Cleveland Browns in Week 7, McDaniel fielded questions about his job security for the rest of the season. "The way I look at this job is I find it very offensive to all parties involved if I'm thinking about having a job -- I need to be doing my job," he said.
"As long as I'm the coach for the Miami Dolphins, they will get everything from me. I refuse to spend my time thinking about [my job security] -- you have your job, you do your job and you do it to the best of your ability, and that's where my concern lies."