In fairness to Gase, Tannehill became unavailable for two years in a row and then there was Tannenbaum diddling with our draft.
I'll try thanks. You too.
for McDaniels here), are organized and calculating enough continue to bring new aspects opponents have not seen or prepared for (Another here for Mc-D) , is able to be friends with players, but can and will discipline or release players that disrupt or decide not to listen (We will see here, if during season someone becomes a problem), and finally can make changes when game plan is not working (Another we will see).I find this an excellent point for all of those that believe that whether anybody else interviewed McDaniel matters in the least. When I started looking at potential candidates after the Flores firing, there were some intriguing names. Most were the usual candidates that most teams look at. But when I started looking at McDaniel I quickly felt he was the right guy. My only concern was with the kind of staff he would bring with him (If I had known the staff he would bring with him then he was my top choice easily). I couldn't care less whether anybody else interviewed him. In fact, I was hoping no other team would.
The inexperience is huge, teams don't want to take a chance on someone that has little Coordinator experience to lead half a team, let alone HC experience to lead an entire team to what they want them to become.
Also, McDaniel's personality is very unconventional to say the least, with how much he jokes, and takes things lightly, acts like one of the guys in the offseason, and friends with most everyone on the team. Most teams see a HC candidate more as tough as nails, no expression hardly ever shown, serious from when they get in, to when they're eating, or in the bathroom, to when they leave.
The thing to consider about McDaniel, he is very smart, and though he is very friendly, and takes things very lightly, when it comes to football and the season, he can be pretty demanding and very serious about it...Either you take your job very seriously, or someone else will do it. He expects 100% effort, nothing less, and if there is an aspect of your game you are not good at, you will work hard to correct it.
Many don't know what McDaniel is about, including us to a lesser degree, considering we have yet to see what he can do as a HC, but that is also how you find an above average HC, you have to take a chance with what little you do know.
Bill Belichick was always thought to be just a Parcells coach that had success because of Parcells, until you notice that Parcells without Belichick never was really very successful, yet Belichick without Parcells proved to be extremely successful...Even with the Browns.
Player coaches can be extremely successful like Joe Gibb, Dick Vermeil, Bill Walsh, Andy Reid to name a few, as long as they are Brilliant coaching at least one side of the team (
I like that nobody has as much faith in him as we do, because if he's the real deal, by the time they figure out how good he is, it will be too late.
I pointed out that the Baltimore Colts hired him and no other team had interviewed him to be their HC. I didn’t say anything about the Dolphins hiring him a few years later.
Since I have been a fan since 1966, I was already very aware of the circumstance surrounding the hiring of Shula by the Dolphins. But thanks the for history lesson for all the young fans on here who might not have known about the shenanigans behind the hiring of Shula by Joe Robbie.K. Just take the extra info as a gift.
Honestly, I’m not a young fan by any means and, for some reason, I had no idea about the Shula hiring. Hell, I remember crying watching John Riggins running on us in the SB lol. That’s pretty interesting about Shula. I guess it was totally worth it to break the rules in that instance.
I believe the interview request itself was denied by SF.
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