WEBVTT - Mike McDaniel Hired; A Deep Dive on His Career 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:06.240 Fires touch stop waddle stocked into the end zone of 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.400 Miami type prong type window. They had to get that 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:17.160 touchdown on that play. They get it. What is up, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:22.000 Dolph fans, and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:27.520 the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.120 How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.960 And on today's show, we get to know the four 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:39.000 head coach in the history of the Miami Dolphins. Introducing 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.000 Mike McDaniel. Will tell you about his life and football career, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.320 facts and accomplishments. We'll look at some systems he's held 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.160 a hand in orchestrating across the NFL over the last 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.080 fifteen years. We'll get some testimonials from those that have 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.600 played with coach from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:02.680 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Pod cast. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.480 So that's right, Mike McDaniel, the eleventh full time head 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.240 coach in Miami Dolphins history. Let's go ahead and get 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.479 started here on the introduction edition of Drive Time with 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.840 his coaching resume, and he began back in two thousand 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.080 five as a coaching intern with the Denver Broncos, and 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.920 you might recall the first game that year for the 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.680 Broncos was in Miami, a Dolphins victory. Two thousand six 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.880 through two thousand eight the Houston Texans, he was an 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.800 offensive assistant for those three years. He then coached in 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.000 the United Football League with the Sacramento Lions as the 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.400 running back coach from O nine to two thousand and ten. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.520 In twelve, he was with the Washington Commanders as an 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.080 offensive assistant and then was promoted to the receiver's coach 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.200 in there. He held the same position with the Cleveland 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.440 Browns the receiver's coach before a trip to the Atlanta 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.960 Falcons for the twenty sixteen seasons as an offensive assistant, 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.480 and then he followed Kyle Shanahan to the San Francisco 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.000 forty nine is the first four years of his career. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.600 There he was the run game coordinator and then last 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.000 season he finishes off as the forty nine offensive coordinator 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.960 under Kyle Shanahan as well. Here in a later portion 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.040 of this podcast and a story about Niners tight end 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.520 George Kittle, the Niners for a long time blocked teams 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.840 from interviewing McDaniel and other forty Niners assistants unless their 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.440 coordinator role they were interviewing four was attached to play 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.079 calling duties. They and Kyle Shanahan in the story from 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.640 forty Niners web zone dot Com, is said to have 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.400 had a firm belief in the idea that retaining coaches 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.440 and continuity there was crucial to their operation, and coach 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.600 McDaniel was deemed an essential part of that Niner staff 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.760 to the point that they would exercise their option to 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.079 block those interviews again unless it was for a promotion 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.119 that came with play calling duties. And of course, back 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.400 then you could block any non head coach interview request 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.720 across your entire staff. That rule did change, and just 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.240 last year, McDaniel was one of the names attached to 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.720 the candidates for the Dolphins offensive coordinator job. Last year, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.760 per reports, He of course returned to San Francisco with 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.919 the promotion to offensive coordinator. But before his fifteen year 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.680 coaching career, McDaniel was a player at Yale, where he 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.520 graduated with a degree in history. But before that, it 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.760 was his childhood experience that opened a door into the 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.760 coaching world. As a youth, McDaniel rode his bike to 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.760 Denver Broncos training camp, which was on the University of 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.760 Northern Colorado campus in Greeley, Colorado, close to where he 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.120 grew up in Aurora. That's where he met Broncos video 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.800 staffer Gary McCune, who then introduced him to Mike Shanahan, 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.920 who would later hire McDaniel as a coaching intern in 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.720 two thousand five. McDaniel said this in a previous story 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.920 written on NBC Sports San Francisco. I didn't go into 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.520 college thinking the endgame was coaching football, but when I 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.040 started investigating other avenues, it was an easy decision and 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.040 something I never looked back on. So what's the old saying, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.280 do something you'll love and you'll never work a day 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.360 in your life. Here's what mc daniel said. I had 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.600 a summer internship in business. There was some stuff that 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.400 I investigated and I realized for me to ultimately be 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.400 satisfied in my career, I had to be passionate about it. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.880 And the business stuff he's referring to was investment banking, 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.800 so obviously very passionate about the sport of football. Let's 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.440 go ahead and go back to that resume and take 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.040 a look at what was accomplished in his position rooms 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:27.160 as a positional assistant. And we start here in with 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.919 the Washington football team Washington Commanders. Pierre Garson led the 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.720 NFL in receptions that year when he was the receiver's 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.520 coach with a hundred thirteen catches and one thousand, three 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.640 hundred forty six yards. As the receiver's coach in Cleveland, 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.960 Andrew Hawkins played six years in his career and team 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.800 was his career high in receptions and yards with sixty 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.680 eight twenty four. And since the theme of those Shanahan 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.160 Tree coaching staffs seems to be a collaboration and kind 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.440 of putting it all together, they also as a team 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.880 that Brown's team rushed for one thousand, seven hundred tw 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.039 of eight yards and seventeen touchdowns with Isaiah Crowel and 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.920 Terence West. As they're want to punch fast forward to 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.880 when he was the run game coordinator between seventy with 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.359 the San Francisco four different leading rushers those four years 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.040 and building that thing up from twenty first ranked rushing 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.520 offense to the second ranked rushing offense in a matter 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.279 of three years with totals of sixteen hundred sixty two yards. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.239 The first year nineteen o two, the year that Jimmy 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.960 g played just three games. So finding a way to 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.480 run the football when you have injuries at both the 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.400 running back and quarterback position, as that Niners team had 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.800 to find different rushing head rushers or leading rushers, I 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.640 should say over the course of those four seasons. Then 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.640 the next year in nineteen two thousand, three hundred and 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.919 five yards, three players had over five hundred rushing yards 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.200 on that Super Bowl appearing team, and they rushed for 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.800 twenty three touchdowns, and then eighteen hundred eighty nine yards 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.200 and nineteen more touchdowns in that final season. As just 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.240 the run game coordinator over those four years, George Kittle 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.920 five in fifteen yards, one thousand, three hundred and seventy 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.160 seven yards, one thousand, fifty three yards, and then last year, 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.839 I should say, when he missed eight games, six hundred 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.680 thirty four yards, then in one and fourteen games had 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.200 nine hundred ten yards. Receiver Marquis Goodwin, who spent time 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.719 with Buffalo before coming to San Francisco, had a career 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.000 high and receiving end yardage in seventeen as well. How 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.640 about his offensive coordinator season in one the Niners were 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.279 seventh and rushing with two thousand, one hundred and sixty 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.680 six yards in the ground. They were eight and yards 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.720 off play action, and of course they went to the 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.640 NFC Championship Game. Also, Deebo Samuel this year had one thousand, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.600 four hundred and five receiving yards and three hundred sixty 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.280 five rushing yards. That's seventeen hundred and seventy yards from 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.200 scrimmage with fourteen total touchdowns. Pretty good production there from 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.159 their top playmaker and Mike McDaniels first year as offensive coordinator. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.400 What about the other stops for posterity? How about two 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.560 thousand five, his first year as an intern with the 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.560 Denver Broncos. They were seventy nine yards away from two 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.760 one thousand yard rushers and Mike Anderson and Tatum Bell 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.919 who had one that year. They rushed for twenty or 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.880 two thousand, rather five hundred thirty nine yards and twenty 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.080 five touchdowns and played in the A s C Title 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.559 game between O six and oh eight with Houston rushed 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.040 for one thousand, six hundred eighty seven yards one thousand, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.680 five hundred eighty six yards. Then they wind up with 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.200 Steve Slayton in the third round. As a rookie, he 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.840 rushes for one thousand, two hundred eighty two yards and 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.440 nine touchdowns, giving the team one thousand, eight hundred forty 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.360 six yards in the ground and sixteen touchdowns that season. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.880 They averaged a buck fifteen on the ground that year. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.640 They also had Andre Johnson to go for fifteen seventy 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.520 five one year as a receiver on that offense, and 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.960 then eight fifty one another year and one thousand, one 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.120 hundred forty seven another year. Lots of offensive production and 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.600 these stops from Mike McDaniel like two thousand eleven two 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.560 thousand twelve with the Washington Commanders, Robert Griffin, the third 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.240 rushes for eight hundred and fifteen yards that rookie season 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.280 and sixth round rookie Alfred Morris runs for one thousand, 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.680 six hundred and thirteen yards. As a team, they rushed 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.600 for two thousand, seven hundred nine yards and twenty two 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.560 touchdowns In two thousand fifteen tw thousand sixteen, he was 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.400 with the Atlanta Falcons one thousand, six hundred and six 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.440 yards and thirteen rushing touchdowns and year one and by 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.920 the way, Julio Jones that year hundred and thirty six grabs, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.880 one thousand, eight hundred and seventy one yards and eight touchdowns. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.400 That was the third highest receiving total in NFL history. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.000 Then in sixteen it got even better. One thousand, nine 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.640 hundred twenty eight rushing yards, twenty touchdowns on the ground 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.360 and a cool eighty three for one thousand, four hundred 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.320 nine yards for Julio Jones. Davonte Freeman had a career 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.120 best one thousand, five hundred and forty one yards from scrimmage, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.280 but the ball went around the lot and the biggest 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.199 career achievement was from Matt Ryan. More on that in 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.280 just a moment. So plenty of rushing production throughout the 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.800 course of Mike McDaniel's career. Whatever staff he has been on, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.600 whatever role he's held, the consistency there has been rushing 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.600 and running the football has always been pretty good. He's 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.360 been on staffs to have won four divisions, been to 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.000 the playoffs five times, one seven playoff games, and been 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.280 to four championship games and been to two Super Bowls. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.320 He's coached with a hundred and eighteen coaches in his 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.640 fifteen year career. That list includes Mike Shanahan, Gary Kubiak, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.760 Kyle Shanahan, Matt Lafleur, Robert Sala, Jim has Let, Keenan 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:22.120 McCardell Raheem Morris, Mike Petton, Dan Quinn, Terry, Robiskie, Keith Armstrong, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.920 Chris Casserk, John Embry To Miko Ryan's, Wes Welker, Mike Lafleur, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.080 Richard high Tower, Shane Day. How about quarterbacks who have 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.760 played on the same squad as Mike McDaniel coaching and 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.360 the results. Jake Plumber in two thousand and five had 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.760 the second best passer rating of his ten year career 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.960 at ninety point to Matt Shaw between oh seven and 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.400 oh eight, a ninety point three passer rating, a slight 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:51.280 jump over his career average. Robert Griffin the third rookie 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.959 of the year, one and two point four passer rating, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.520 the best of his career and fifteen point nine points 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.160 higher than his career average. Brian Hoyer in four teen, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.319 with seven and six as a starter he was nine 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.680 and seventeen otherwise, had a career best thirteen point seven 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.520 yards per completion and his second best yards per game 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.240 of his career with two thirty seven point six and 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.120 his twelve touchdown passes that year with a second most 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.360 of his entire career. Matt Ryan sixteen won the m 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.360 v P Award and had career best across the board, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.959 including a one seven teen point one passer rating, seventh 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.480 best all time. By the way, it was the second 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.319 time in his career with the passer writing better than 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.840 one hundred. The other was one oh eight point once 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.760 almost ten points better in his best year from his 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.720 second best year, and the solid twenty two point nine 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.440 points better than his career average of ninety four point two. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.960 He had career highs in every major category that season. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.240 Nick Mullins in team started eight games as an undrafted 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.920 free agent and had ninety point eight passer rating Under 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.839 the same coaching tree, C J. Bethred has a one 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.480 oh five point seven passer rating and two starts in 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.840 and Jimmy Garoppolo's absent, they found a way to get 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.520 each of three different quarterbacks to play pretty good football 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.080 at three different times since Kyle Shanahan's arrival there and 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.720 the last of course being Jimmy Garoppolo, who was a 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.480 Super Bowl appearance in a Championship Game appearance, a passer 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.240 rating of nine point oh upon his arrival. That was 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.120 his first stretch of really starting in the NFL and 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.720 a record of five and oh after that nine. Our 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.240 team began that year one and ten, and that one 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.520 o two passer rating in their Super Bowl season in 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.080 nineteen was a career best. He's thirty one and fourteen 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.480 as the Niner starter. So you look down that list, 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.520 Jake Plumber, Matt Shob r G three, Brian Jyer, Matt Ryan, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.920 Nick Bole and C. J. Bethart, Jimmy Garoppolo. All those 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.280 guys really had their games elevated under these coaching staffs 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.640 that Mike McDaniel was a part of. And we can't 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.319 sit here and say all the credit goes to one 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.480 guy or this guy or the other. But it's a 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.240 nice trend to look at in terms of maximizing the 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.439 quarterback that you have and getting the best play out 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.920 of them you possibly can. How about the league wide 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.320 rushing ranks among all the teams that he has been 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.640 a coach on. We mentioned the Niners ranks and rushing 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.199 since two thousand seventeen, ranking seventh and second in that stretch. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.160 He was also a part of coaching staffs to have 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.160 ranked second best in the NFL and oh five with 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.640 the Denver Broncos, first inelve with Washington Commanders, and then 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.120 fifth with Atlanta Falcons in sixteen. I think it's also 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.959 impressive that they were able to do in San Francisco 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.040 with the running game and the commitment to it, especially 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.040 when you consider the company they kept in that regard 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.520 and the quarterbacks of those teams in their similar category. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.040 You know, overseeing an offense that led the league in 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.760 two back personnel and posted the third highest rushing attempt 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.080 rate last season at forty seven point seven percent runs. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.439 The company McDaniels Niners kept at the top of the 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.360 rushing charts were not like the team in Red and 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:55.080 Gold that did just that. Philadelphia and Baltimore paced the 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.079 NFL and run past balance, but both those teams combined 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.480 for three and thirty three quarterback carries. Jimmy Garoppolo carried 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.880 the ball thirty eight times this year, and Trey Lance 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.120 also carried it thirty eight times in his limited action. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.480 But that's a third of the quarterback rushing. So the 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.480 Niners found a way to get to that balance without 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.680 having a quarterback factor in major into the running game. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.960 And I want to come back to personnel usage here 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.959 in just a second, But first I would like to 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.960 look at some of the trends around the National Football 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.080 League and what these other coaches off the Shanahan coaching 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.360 tree and the peers of Mike McDaniel have done with 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.760 their opportunities. But first, real quick, before we do that, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:38.800 a short break back here on the Drive Time podcast, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.080 taking a look at the fourteenth head coach in the 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:45.280 history of the Miami Dolphins. He is Mike McDaniel, formerly 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.680 of the San Francisco forty Niners, where he was the 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.160 offensive coordina there last season and the run game coordinator 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.760 over the previous four years there under Kyle Shanahan, and 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.840 the success of that Niners team and of that Niners 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.600 running game. And I want to go ahead and look 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.760 around the league at recent hiring trends in terms of 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.920 offensive versus defense and the success of the coach with 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.600 their backgrounds and where they have come from in their careers. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.040 And we do that here, beginning with this season, this 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.920 hiring cycle, and taking a look at the coaches hired 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.080 and where their background was offensively and defensively. So far 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.960 this year with six hires, five offensively, one defensively in 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.080 terms of O C versus d C. In it was 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.760 five offensive, too defensive. In nineteen it was six offensive 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.360 and too defensive. How about the teams that played in 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.160 the Super Bowl and the Final Four and division winners 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.280 over the last couple of years and where their coaching 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.520 background came from this last season? Both Super Bowl teams, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.680 the Rams and the Bengals are offensive coaches, Zach Taylor 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.240 and Sean McVeigh, the Final four all of them more 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:54.680 offensive coaches as well with with Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan, 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.840 and the Super Bowl both offensive coaches. The final four 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.200 the championship games three offensive, one defensive, and that was 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.240 the same numbers in twenty nineteen Super Bowl, both coaches 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.520 offensive backgrounds and the final four teams remaining three offensive 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.960 and one defensive. What about division winners? In six of 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.120 the eight head coaches that won their division this last 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.640 season had an offensive background. And the Kyle Shanahan, or 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.480 rather the Mike Shanahan coaching tree that produced Kyle Shanahan, 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.800 produces more and more coaches here as we go along 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.880 that are having success all across the National Football League. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.920 Sean McVeigh two Super Bowl appearances, five playoff wins, four 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.240 appearances and five seasons in the playoffs as a head coach, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.600 he could be a champion by the next by next 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.880 week as well. How about Matt Lafleur blessed winning percentage 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.200 of all coaches and minimum three seasons coached, three division 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.440 titles in those three years. Two championship game appearances to 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.560 playoff wins. How about Kyle Shanahan super Bowl appearance to 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.680 championship game appearances, one division title to playoff appearances, four 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.840 playoff wins. How about Sean Taylor broke a thirty plus 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.200 year playoff drout, playoff win drout the Cincinnati Bengals won 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.560 division title and has three playoff wins. This coaching tree 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.680 has had a lot of success, and I think you 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.640 see a lot of similarities there too. None of these 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:14.400 guys are your classic big intimidating football coaches, their communicators 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.200 and their player and powers. In fact, there was a 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.480 great clip of McDaniel talking about providing value to his 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.640 players and kind of the need to prove himself as 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:28.080 providing value because he didn't have that traditional playing background 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.040 that provided him with an inherent resume that players could say, yeah, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.480 that guy did it and did this and this and that, 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.080 of course, so of course I'm going to trust him. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.200 So here's coach McDaniel on finding what fits his players 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.440 skill sets and going ahead with that challenge yourself to 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.240 do what to do things that fit your players skill 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.280 sets and what makes them most comfortable You try to 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.440 avoid well, we've always done it this way. UM, So 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.960 you're so you're evolving to UM whatever your players skill 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.840 sets are. And as you spend more time with them 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.840 and UM learn the ins and outs of how they play, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.439 you recognize, well, this is UM. You know, Jimmy's a 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.600 lot more decisive UM in the gun. He likes to 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.679 see it. He's delivering tight window throws. How do we 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.280 implement that more without losing the greatest advantage you have offensively, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.360 which is you know the play and they don't minimizing 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.960 past exclusive UH situations which on first and second down 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.640 you can do if you have the threat of run 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.800 out of gun. UM. And we've just kind of evolved, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:44.719 you know, Kyle in two thousand nineteen, really UM started 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.920 noticing that and put pressure on us to evolve our UM, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:54.000 our gun run package, and UM. Every week you you 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.000 figure out different ways to do um some of the 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.160 same things, maybe a couple of wrinkles UM, but keep 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.960 that keep the defense on ut with without being past 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.920 exclusive in any situation other than third six plus or whatever. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.760 That's a common theme there, and there's another common theme 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.280 for those teams, really, every single one of them. And 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.000 we've been on the idea of the run game, and 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.320 we'll dive into that more as we paint the future 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.000 of the league as an offensive one, and I think 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.879 that would include more of a passing league, right, but 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.960 also the strength of having the running game, and I 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.879 like the idea of sort of zigging when the rest 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.200 of the league zags. And that's not to say there 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.400 isn't a passing game. That wouldn't be factual at all. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.040 But the ability to run the football just creates a 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.200 way to win that not every team has, not even 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.359 every top offense has. And we saw it really compliments 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.680 some teams in their post season pushes, like the forty niners. 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.800 We saw the Bengals get really to the running game 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.600 in the a f C Championship game when they were 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.639 getting enough stops to continue running the football, even trelling 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.640 on the scoreboard. And Joe Mix and got things going down, 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.399 multiple scores in that game. Game the more ways you 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.280 have to win in a league where the running game is, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.960 you know, not bordering on extinct, but definitely becoming less 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.840 of a priority to the passing game. Having that ability 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.879 is one way you often see those big time quarterbacks 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.679 toppled late in January. What about personnel usage? For the 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.359 history of Mike McDaniel and National Football League, we continue 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.800 to look at what he's done in his coaching career. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:25.800 And none of this is to say to say that 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.760 the Dolphins offense will be designed exactly like this, but 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.679 these are just for information sake, the styles of offenses 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:34.960 that Mike McDaniel has been a part of. And you 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.800 look over the last five years with San Francisco forty niners, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.440 it's been primarily in the thirty nine to forty eight 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.520 percent range for eleven personnel, that's typically one of the 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.320 lowest uses in the National Football League. Those are three 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.320 receiver sets, eleven personnel, now twelve personnel. It ranges between 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.040 ten and eighteen percent over those four years, but it's 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.760 consistently around ten twelve percent, and then twenty one personnel's 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.719 where you get a big jump it's two backs, and 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.639 of as we know about Kyle. You check there in 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:05.359 San Francisco signed the first year with my with Kyle Shanahan, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.360 and it's ranging between twenty percent and forty one percent 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.520 of one personnel, and then you have between seven and 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.640 eleven percent out of two personnel. That's two backs, two 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.119 tight ends. I don't have the complete numbers before those years, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.080 but I did find a story from Football Outsiders that 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:28.280 detailed that from seventeen Kyle Shanahan led offenses the same 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.560 Falcons and forty Niners teams that McDaniel was with lad 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.720 the National Football League in twenty one personnel. Which is interesting, however, 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.240 is that in seventeen the Niners went from twenty six 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.359 percent one personnelity when using Brian Hoyer and c. J. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.800 Bethor to quarterback that year, then after training Jimmy Garoppolo, 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.879 that number jumped up sixteen percentage points to forty two percent. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.680 So again going back to the idea what Mike McDonald 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.199 just told us on that press conference previously with the 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.879 forty Niners, that you want to put the offense in 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:00.720 position to do what they do best to get the 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.640 ultimate success. So around the fifteen year coaching career, variety, 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.240 good knowledge base of multiple systems and concepts and ideas 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:12.720 makes it coach more adaptable tourist players like they were 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:17.000 with Deebo Samuel In. More on that in just one moment. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:18.760 But to round out what I do, have access to 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:24.280 the Falcons in number one offense eleven personnel of the 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.879 time that was third lowest in the National Football League, 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.240 and the Dolphins this last year had the lowest eleven 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.399 personnel usage in the NFL. Just an interesting fact to me. 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.159 How about some further notes on this offense or the 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.560 offenses ran rather in McDaniels past. We'll do that next 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.320 and hear some testimonials from those players that ran those systems. 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.400 But real quick, how about a little bit of personality 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:48.560 from coach. Let's go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:50.879