Miami Dolphins faithful wore their frustrations just like head coach Mike McDaniel during Thursday night's [28-6](https://www.nfl.com/games/ravens-at-dolphins-2025-reg-9) blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens: On their sleeves.
At multiple points during the loss, Dolphins fans booed the home squad, including jeers directed at the coach. Prime Video showed shot after shot after shot after shot of Miami fans with paper bags or even popcorn bowls over their heads -- the universal sign of 'we're embarrassed about the team we love.' When the Ravens went up 28-6 in the third quarter, many didn't even bother booing. They just left the stadium.
Following the loss, an embattled McDaniel was asked how he takes fans booing his 2-7 club.
"Yeah, personally, you want to dictate the terms. You want to fix stuff, and yeah, it sucks. That sucks," he said via the team's official transcript. "All of that does. But I think it's a pretty consistent formula of fans enjoy winning and so our expectation is that we have to do the work and do the right things for fans to enjoy the experience and unfortunately, we didn't do that tonight, so we got to get back to work to give them something to cheer about."
Like the fans, McDaniel couldn't always keep his emotions bottled up, and he poured out his frustration several times on the sideline, from a dejected skyward-looking query to a blowup after a false start by right tackle Larry Borom on a would-be fourth-down play.
"That was at self-inflicted wounds," the coach said of his sideline reaction to the false start. "We have been putting such an emphasis on all things related to our operation and in a critical fourth-and-1, where we were pretty fired up about the defensive look – it was what we were calling the play for. And that's, flat out, a controllable that our team knows that keeps you from winning. So I was irate at nothing but our self-inflicted wound."
With his job in question, McDaniel is feeling the South Beach heat. Last week's win in Atlanta brought some reprieve, but the Dolphins couldn't build on it, turning the ball over three times, committing key penalties and becoming disjointed after halftime.
Despite outplaying Baltimore early, Miami trailed by eight at the break. Then the dam broke, and McDaniels' team didn't have the fortitude to recover.
"You got a red zone turnover, a red zone turnover on downs," McDaniel said, listing his team's miscues. "You have a backed-up turnover and a missed field goal. Generally, it's a bad omen to be very capable of being in the lead and being behind – getting six points in the first half with having, I think, two-thirds time of possession if I remember correctly. That's setting up for failure.
"And we were minus-three (in turnovers) and they were three-for-three in the red zone and we didn't score a touchdown. There were elements of the football confidence created last week, but the bottom line is you have to cross your T's and dot your I's in the National Football League or you get made pay. It's very, very disappointing and unfortunately, we're going to have to sit on that disappointment for 10 days. I know the locker room would like to go play another Thursday night game in four days to get this bad taste out of their mouth."
The question in Miami on this Halloween is whether McDaniel will still be at the helm when the Dolphins return to action in 10 days.