Mike McDaniel is no longer NFL’s darling with Dolphins engulfed by quarterback mess
NY Post
Narratives in the NFL shift as rapidly as the winter winds in the league’s Northeast stadiums.
But it’s not Mother Nature that dictates these narrative shifts, it’s the quarterbacks.
For the past two seasons, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel had drawn praise as a brilliant and creative offensive mind, and a coach who doesn’t always follow the traditional NFL head coaching playbook.
In his first season, McDaniel led the 2022 Dolphins to their first playoff berth since 2016, and only the second since 2009. Last season, he led the Dolphins to an 11-6 record and another playoff berth. He was widely considered one of the great bright young minds in the game.
The common denominator to those two seasons of success was quarterback Tua Tagovailoa playing well and staying healthy. Tagovailoa started 13 games in 2022 and went 8-5, and he started all 17 last season.
Then, in a Week 2 loss to the Bills, Tagovailoa suffered his fourth known concussion, which has him out indefinitely. His backup, Skylar Thompson, suffered a rib injury in the Week 3 loss to Seattle, leaving recently signed Tyler Huntley as the Dolphins starter.
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It’s not even the All-Star break yet, and the Nets have already won more games than they were predicted to all season.
Joel Embiid did his best Ben Simmons impression.
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