MIAMI — The Dolphins have agreed to a three-year extension with Mike McDaniel, sources instructed ESPN’s Jeff Darlington, retaining their head coach in south Florida by the 2028 season.
McDaniel is coming into his third season with the Dolphins and has led them to the playoffs in every of his first two seasons, becoming a member of Dave Wannstedt and Don Shula as the one coaches in franchise historical past to take action. After going 26 years and not using a top-10 offense, Miami has fielded one in every of the previous two seasons, main the league in complete yards in 2023.
Miami has not received a playoff sport for the reason that 1999 season, and misplaced a pair of AFC wild-card video games beneath McDaniel, however a supply instructed ESPN that McDaniel’s working relationships with basic supervisor Chris Grier, CEO Tom Garfinkel and Senior VP of Soccer and Enterprise Administration Brandon Shore have satisfied proprietor Steve Ross that he is the appropriate coach to finish the playoff win drought.
McDaniel has made an particularly noticeable impression on Tua Tagovailoa’s growth; the quarterback has turned within the two greatest seasons of his profession beneath McDaniel and led the NFL in passing yards final season.
Tagovailoa signed a four-year extension this offseason, which now traces up with McDaniel’s extension by the 2028 season.
The Dolphins have been the one group to interview McDaniel throughout the 2022 offseason, hiring him for his first head-coaching job. He has drawn rave evaluations from gamers and employees for not solely his soccer thoughts, but in addition his capacity to attach with others — one thing Ross stated was an vital high quality for a head coach to have after firing Brian Flores in 2022.
“We took an opportunity, however I used to be impressed by him,” Ross stated in an interview with CBS Miami this preseason. “I imply, his intelligence and as an individual he is distinctive definitely, and he is doing a terrific job. All people loves him.”
