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I'm posting too many of these individually, so how about a thread for any former players under McD telling us how he operates.

How Allen Iverson made the Miami Dolphins’ Mike McDaniel a better coach

When McDaniel took the job in Cleveland, he showed his position group game footage of former Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson in an effort to make them more effective getting off the line of scrimmage.

Former NFL wide receiver Andrew Hawkins, now an NFL Network analyst says he remember thinking. ‘What the hell are you talking about and how is this going to correlate?'” Hawkins said. “He said, ‘No, we’re going to automate this process, to where you’re going to take all of the thinking out of getting off the line of scrimmage. You’re going to stick to these three principles on it, you’re going to stick to these two releases, and you’re never going to get jammed. You’re never going to get jammed at the line of scrimmage if you do these two things and you embed this philosophy that I’m showing you watching Allen Iverson film.’

“In 2014, I don’t think there was a single receiver, if you go back to that film and watch, I don’t think there was a single receiver for us that got jammed at the line of scrimmage. It was the wildest thing. … It got to the point that teams stopped trying to even press us.”
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Source - Miami Dolphins Zone

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Interesting factoid.....

"Not counting his one year as an intern with the Denver Broncos in 2005, McDaniel spent 14 years as an NFL assistant before joining the Dolphins, and that ranks as the second-highest total prior to becoming Miami head coach behind only the 18 years of experience that George Wilson brought to the job when he became the franchise's first head coach in 1966."

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Mike McDaniel's Road to Becoming Dolphins Head Coach

Mike McDaniel worked in the NFL for more than a decade and was around many proven coaches before he was hired as Miami Dolphins head coach
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I like his raw, authentic true persona. He has charisma and he's a freaking Yale graduate. He is that special human you get to meet every once in a while, he's that dude. In time we will have a culture here, first time since those dog day afternoons at Barry University under the old ball coach Shula. He's his own unique guy. But he brings the Shanahan system many of us have been pounding the table for since this site began.
 
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I like his raw, authentic true persona. He has charisma and he's a freaking Yale graduate. He is that special human you get to meet every once in a while, he's that dude. In time we will have a culture here, first time since those dog day afternoons at Barry University under the old ball coach Shula. He's his own unique guy. But he brings the Shanahan system many of us have been pounding the table for since this site began.
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I hear you here, it's about substance. This guy is not cool, not intimidating, just really into football, helping players improve and team building by his own admission, which is why we he is here and why we need him. I can see why players would be so high on him. Getting better and winning is surely attractive if this is your livelihood.
 
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