The Miami Dolphins have made yet another massive contract extension — although this one you may not have seen coming. Head coach Mike McDaniel as reportedly agreed to terms on a new deal that keeps him in place as the head coach of the Dolphins through the end of the 2028 season. Why is this contract so important, how did the Dolphins get here and what does it mean for Miami's big picture aspirations?
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You can find all of our shows here on the Lockdown Network on YouTube over every listener. Your podcast, typically cap to our everyders because it is your team every day. We don't just say it. We live it. We are ending August with a bang the Dolphins ESPN's Jeff Darlington dropping the report this morning, just a half hour ago as I sit down to record this podcast. Mike McDaniel and the Dolphins agreed to terms on a contract extension that extends him through the 2028 season as a member of the Miami Dolphins organization as their head coach. I'll read the full post from Jeff Darlington, and then we're going to really get into the weeds on, well, I think this is a massive deal for Miami from an organizational perspective, not just from Mike McDaniel, not just for long-term job security, all that kind of stuff, but like big picture stuff as an organization within the ecosystem, the NFL. This is a big deal. I want to talk about that. Breaking news, this is Jeff Darlington within the hour. Breaking news, Jeff Darlington, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel has signed a new contract that extends him through the 2028 season, sources say under McDaniel, the Dolphins had the top ranked offense in the NFL in 2023 for the first time since 1994. They also had first back-to-back playoff appearances in 23 years. I'm told McDaniel has an especially strong working relationship with general manager Chris Greer, CEO Tom Garfinkle, and cap guru Brandon Shor. It's the type of cohesive group that owner Steven Ross Covets, playoff wins are obviously be the final piece of the puzzle, but the organization believes McDaniel is the coach to lead them there. This coinciding with a contract extension paid to your franchise quarterback. Earlier this month, I guess. Still technically, what that happened within the first couple of days of August, so August 2024, a big month for long-term big picture stability for the Miami Dolphins. For McDaniel to come in, this report from Darlington gives the backing of why the Dolphins made the choice that we did, and we've unfortunately had to relive like the end of the Bryan Flores era and what that tenure was like and what that building was like for not just to a tongue of a lower, but the entire organization. The organization has made strides and their big motivating factor to move on from Bryan Flores in spite of the hot ending to the season was, well, we want to have a more collaborative and cohesive group. When you get to a certain threshold in the NFL, anybody can start from scratch. Anybody can hire a GM and a coach and start to build a roster in the first two years. If you're working with no expectations and no back to 2019, generally, it's fairly easy for everybody to have a kumbaya type situation because you're building. Everything knows it's going to take some time. And the Dolphins know this as well as any organization across the league, especially when they had to share a division with the gold standard of stability, the New England Patriots for two decades. Once the pressure hook cooker starts to get turned up, people start to look at their own situation and look at whether or not the team is performing the way that they want it to. Is it my fault? Is the owner going to look at me and decide that I'm the problem and get rid of me? I better make sure I talk to the owner. And he knows it's so-and-so's fault and not my fault. Think back to those early Steven Ross era Dolphins teams. You know the ones I'm talking about. The Tony Sperano, Jeff Ireland, Donna Ponti, triumphant of power figures within the organization, fighting amongst themselves to sell to Steven Ross, why they weren't the problem with the team and so-and-so needs to go and it's not me, it's them. And you're spending so much of your time looking inward at each other and fighting competitive battles with each other that you're not moving in the same direction to try to achieve a team that can successfully compete on the field. Instead you're competing internally to save your own butt. And I'm not saying that was what happened with Brian Flores. The Brian Flores School of Thought as we've come to gather as much information as we can. And there were things that Brian Flores, you know, coming in here was not put in a totally fair position to be successful. I think that both things can be true. But coming from the Bill Belichick School and Tree of Team Building and roster management, right? It was Bill did everything and then Bill O'Brien and Houston. When things start going wrong, start getting rid of people and I'll do everything. And that was what the Dolphins, they saw the writing on the wall for the way that it was going to trend and they proactively made a decision to move on from Brian Flores amidst other issues that exist. But their big motivating factor that they illustrated and communicated was we want our football operations team to have a collective and collaborative group. And I still see to this day people debating about whether Mike McDaniel wanted Cam Smith or not and then he gets Devont Achan and did we force Patrick Paul on him and he wanted a running back or he wanted this that deal. It doesn't matter. It's a collaborative effort from everybody involved. And there seems to be the right blend and combination of people that has been paired with enough success, not gold standard of success, not a championship, not a playoff win. I understand that's what we're playing for. 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Mid nineties end of Don Chula's tenure with the team well established Dan Marino, even if it was late stage career Dan Marino post Achilles Dan Marino because think about it Don Chula leaves you have four years of Jimmy Johnson, four years of Dave Juan's debt. Dan Marino overlaps with the four years of Jimmy Johnson. Maybe you can say that that that window of time had some parallels as far as the organizational stability. Once that goes into year five is fired Jim Bates finishes the season. This is just we're just going to do coaches now. And then we're going to do the rest of it. Then once that going into year five gets fired Jim Bates finishes the year two years and next saving gone. Cam Cameron one and done Tony Sperano goes worse to first 10 win improvement NFL record for most wins from one year to the next. Now you're into the Steven Ross era of owning the team. We have him and Jeff Ireland and Donna Ponti all looking at each other for now. Who's at fault for going from 11 and five to seven and nine to seven and nine. There's the Jim Harbaugh flirtation that's in there. We're flying to California to visit with Harbaugh. We don't end up getting a deal done. We give Tony Sperano a contract extension. He ends up getting fired anyway. Todd Bowles finishes the year as the interim coach then Joe Fielding comes in and then we're able to usurp Jeff Ireland and get him out of the mix and we go seven and nine and eight and eight and eight again and then Joe Fielding going into year four gets fired. Dan Campbell finishes the year. They finish hot after a horrible first month and it's three years of Adam Gates and it's three years Brian Flores and now we're going into year three of Mike McDaniel and the easiest thing in the world that you can do is be results oriented to the degree that you look at Mike McDaniel. You look at two playoff perts, two playoff losses. We still want to play off game. We're not here to lose playoff games, which is true or not, but the easiest thing in the world to do is look at that and say, if you don't get it done this year, we're going to go a different direction. If you can't get over the hump now, then he's obviously not the man for the job. We need to move on. That's the school of thought of all of this happening from Jimmy Johnson's departure till the start of the Mike McDaniel era. The vast majority of that overlaps with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots with Bill Belichick and that team and they had built enough trust within their key power players in their organization and they had general managers, some of which came and some of which goes and it's really Bill's show anyway, and he had trust with Belichick even though they had at times a non-frictionless relationship between the two of them. They have all the winning success that they do and you're chasing that and every three years, the pressure is immediately so high to win that if it doesn't happen, you're out the door, we go back to square one. How long did it take from a offensive perspective, Mike McDaniel worked wonders in year one and some of that is, well, Tyree Kill became available, but I tell you right now, you ask any NFL pundit, you ask any NFL executives, you ask other NFL coaches, where Mike McDaniel ranks in the hierarchy of NFL play colors from an offensive scheme, design, creativity, perspective. This isn't in to say he's infallible as a coach. He's giving me the top five of just about every list across the league. You don't let go of people like that for circumstantial small body of work. Mike McDaniel was not the head coach of the team in 2016, I'm sorry. Mike McDaniel was in the head coach of the team in '08. He was in the head coach anywhere in the middle. For Mike McDaniel, him coming into the pre-existing infrastructure that existed with this team and making things work and making this an attractive place for veteran players to want to come, making this an attractive place for developing talent, making this an attractive place for offensive football to be able to compliment some of the other perks of South Florida from a location perspective and a tax bill bell check just got on ESPN and cried about Massachusetts being taxicuses. And the agents rake you over the coals with that when you're doing negotiations for contracts. But all of a sudden, I got to worry about that and it'll always been their selling point. Well, we're aggressive. We're willing to pay as much as anybody else and you'll have to pay state taxes. When I have players who come here for less, like a class camp who openly came out right and said, I took less to come here because this is a place I wanted to play and this is a place I wanted to end my career. So you have the head coach dynamic in the midst of chasing the stability within the NFL within your own division for the last 30 years for the Dolphins almost. Then there's the leading passer, Dan Marino through 99. It was feedler for four years. And then it was AJ Fealy, Gus Farat, Joey Harrington. Do I have to do this? I'll do it. Cleo Lemon, Chad Pennington, Chad Henny, Matt Moore, Ryan Tannehill for five years. Jay Cutler, Ryan Tannehill appears again in 2018. Ryan Fitzpatrick the last two years to a tongue of a love. The only player in that entire group to get like a sizable contract was Tannehill. And his tenure just so happened to overlap with the football operations power struggle that was existing with Philbin and Aponte and Jeff Ireland where Aponte and Philbin theme up and get Jeff Ireland out of the mix. Just so happens to overlap with that. And oh, by the way, all of that's really happening until Ryan Tannehill becomes an established NFL player, gets a second contract. Now Joe Philbinsfire, like this is the first time it's been like, you kind of know that you've got a commitment to the coach who's done enough of the right things, even if he hasn't done all the right things, even if he's not perfect, even if he's not a champion yet, you've got a quarterback who's done enough of the right things, you've got a football operations collective group that has really been in place since 2019 when the team made the dramatic shift with Garfinkle and Greer and Brandon Shore and that collective group and how they work together to think piece everything and collectively collaborated altogether. This is the first time since at least the Jimmy Johnson years, that you can look at all of the major pieces and say there is a firm commitment and a firm belief internally, whether it's external or not, and frankly the dolphins don't care what you think. They don't care what I think either about internally and what their football operation looks like. There is an internal trust and belief and a cohesiveness and it's been built on four consecutive seasons of winning more games than you lose. That helps. It's been built on the relationships. It's been built in the proof of concept of how this offense has assimilated to these players and from a coaching staff, how they do put players in positions to be productive versions of themselves. That doesn't guarantee you're going to make deep postseason runs every year. I've done this exercise before but we're going to look across the league next at some of the most well regarded people in football operations that have won championships and we're going to look at how long it took them until they had their breakthroughs to understand why it is so important to have this kind of organizational stability and why looking at 2024 and say, oh, Mike, the McDaniel doesn't want to play off game. We got to go in a different direction. Would have been the absolute worst possible thing you could have done with a superficial judgment of successes and failures and wins and losses of the team knowing full well that at the end of the day, you are judged in the court of public opinion by the wins in the wing columns, the Ls and the Ls columns, and if you have any post-season success, I get it. But there's so much more into creating an annual contender and that's what the Dolphins have aspired to be and they've said it since they made all these changes in 2019. They aspire to create a team that could contend on an annual basis. Some teams are going to be more competitive on a year over year basis than others. There's peaks and valleys. We experience the Dolphins doing an income redistribution this offseason to go through that income redistribution and then say, and it didn't work, flush it down the toilet. Oh, we couldn't sign a Christian will because it's Rob Hunt, flush it down the toilet. 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Eligible items, only exclusions do apply. eBay guarantee fit available only to US customers. Let's start with everybody's favorite football executive. Howie Roseman has developed and cultivated a sterling reputation for what he does with trades. He gets good football people in his building. He's been trusted through multiple life cycles of teams within Philadelphia with multiple head coaches and multiple competitive windows that include tear downs and rebuilds back up. And he's been a successful executive. You know how long it took Howie Roseman from the time that he was named the general manager of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2010 until their team won their first playoff game? You know how long it was? 2010 they went 10 and six made it to the wildcard round. Lost in the wildcard round. And they went eight and eight 12, four and 12. 2013 they're back to the playoffs, 10 and six. And they lost in the wildcard round. That's your four. You're five. They went 10 and six missed the playoffs. That's your five. You're six. They went seven and nine missed the playoffs. You're seven. They went seven and nine missed the playoffs. We're ready to run Mike McDaniel out of town two years of not one of the playoff game just by having talented rosters was Eagles teams had talented rosters. I mean that 10 and six Eagles team had Andy Reed as the head coach a Super Bowl winning coach. The defensive coordinator was Sean McDermott and Michael Vick at quarterback made it to the Pro Bowl that year had LaShawn McCoy, Jeremy Maclin, Brent Selik, a good player to Sean Jackson's on the team had a good offensive line group had a double digit sack guy and Trent Cole. Sante Samuel had seven picks that year. This was a talented football team. Brandon Graham was on the squad. They won playoff game. It might McDaniel went nine and eight and then regress back to eight and nine and missed the playoffs in year two. Everybody would have been ready to run them out of town. How you Roseman, you're one, 10 and six, you're two, eight, eight, you're three, four and 12. That trend alone would get you fired. Now Andy Reed was gone after four and 12. But how he's still the GM. He was trusted to go through it and make some changes. They hired the wrong coach. They went 10 and six, 10 and six, seven and nine. He survived through a head coaching change and they go seven and nine in a foundational year. And then they win the Super Bowl in 2017. The first playoff game, how he roseman experienced as an executive was in year seven. And we're going to talk about Mike McDaniel. If you don't want to play off gaming near three despite having a talented roster, we get a run amount of building. What are we talking about? This is why this kind of stuff is so important. This is why the stability in the runway and once you believe you have the right people commit and keep the right people and allow the process to play out because there is variables you can't control. There is some degree of luck that's involved. Nobody wants to admit that. There is. How about less need? Talk about less need. Another championship executive. And we'll get to some coaches too. Don't worry. This isn't just executives in the proof of of importance of of organizational stability for executives. We'll get to some coaches too. Less need, 2012. You know what year it was until he won his first playoff game? How many years he was on the job? Seven, eight and one in 2012, seven, nine in 2013. 2014, we're six and ten. In 2015, there were seven, nine. 2016, there were four and twelve. He didn't have a winning season in his first five seasons as an executive. But they believed he was the right person because he had good process. He was aggressive. He had good evaluations. And then he got the coach right. Eleven and five. Losing the wildcard rounds. That's 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. That's six years. Then in your seven, they make a Super Bowl run. Losing the Super Bowl to Patriots three years later wins the Super Bowl. High Roseman and less need didn't win a playoff game. As what is largely considered some of the best executives in the game. But you were allowed to make some mistakes, but you knew you had the right person and that theme can extend and continue elsewhere. I don't know if you guys remember this, but John Harbaugh in Baltimore had a stretch where like every year, he was on like a year by year, one year contract until they finally got off the pot and gave him a big contract extension. And Coach Harbaugh, his first four seasons as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, they went eleven and five, nine and seven, twelve and four, twelve and four. They win the Super Bowl in year five. And they go eight and eight, ten and six, five and eleven, eight and eight, nine and seven. You think after winning a championship, you think a four year window where you have one winning season. You think the conversation to get rid of them move on from Harbaugh? Maybe, maybe not. But those Ravens teams, once they won the Super Bowl in year five, Coach Harbaugh went one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven years with one playoff win. Then they won another one in 2020 and that was year eight, nine, ten. The Ravens, they won a playoff game this year. It was their third playoff win in the last 12 years. So you're gonna talk about Mike in two years, doesn't have a playoff win, so he's on the hot seat. And I get it, right? Like they won a championship. It gives you a lot more runway and leash, but is he the right person for the job or not? Regardless, you look across the NFL, at the teams that are considered to be the annual contenders. We'll look at the 2023 standings, Buffalo. They have an established, executive and brand of being an established head coach and Sean McDermott, an established quarterback in Josh Allen, commitments to all of those personalities on their organization. And it has allowed them to grow together, to make mistakes, learn what buttons you have to push and evolve together. Baltimore Ravens, we just went, got done going through the Pittsburgh Steelers with everybody jokes about this team being a cockroach that is just going to show up at the end of the year. No matter how bad it looks in September, Mike Tomlin's gonna have a winning record. You want to go through Mike Tomlin and what it looks like from a a playoff success perspective after he won a Super Bowl in year two. I mean, and I know it's a hot button topic for a lot of Pittsburgh fans, but they look at Tomlin. He hasn't won a playoff game since 2016. They do, they won the Super Bowl in 2008. And this is an organization that's had, what, three head coaches since the Jimmy Carter administration? Just unparalleled stability within that organization year over year, because they know they have the right people. They understand there's going to be ebbs and flows. And to judge McDaniel for two years on circumstantial results versus just asking yourself, is this the right person for the job? And then you extend and look past that and say, Mike McDaniel, if he was out on the market, there are probably double digit teams across the league that would fire their head coach tomorrow if Mike McDaniel had hit the market. And we were talking about him on the hot seat. Come on, please. All of the body of work that exists across the entirety of the league is the hardest thing you can do is make that leap because it's the NFL. It's not for long. Everybody's under pressure to perform and have success and cultivate wins at a high level. Mike McDaniel's done that despite the late season success the last two years, including in 2022 when they went into Buffalo, lost by three points on an admirable performance in many ways from a lot of players with a grossly undermanned team. Last season, you can make excuses for the cold. The team was capable of performing much better, even though they were banged up at the end of the year. They were a capable team of showing up and performing in a much better light than what they illustrated in the wildcard round, yet can't sit. This is a young coach. This is a first time head coach. Mike McDaniel is 41. He will turn 42 next March. If things go well, he could have two decades of coaching in the NFL in front of him. We know he'll have another five years here in Miami because the Dolphins game the extension. But it is a huge deal to get an extension done amidst the other stability. There's been head coach contract extensions that have been done in Miami in the last 20 years, but it hasn't been all in harmony with all of the elements of your football team and all of the elements of your football operations and your football brain trust and the power players that run your team. This is the first time Miami has got these things aligned in about 30 years. Massive to get the contract extension done and avoid the low hanging fruit and the cheese to take to say, well, he's got to win a playoff game. And if he doesn't, then we need to find somebody who will. Because sometimes these things just take time. Sean McVay, year two, how to breakthrough one, two playoff games, missed the playoffs the following season at nine and seven. Give him another two years, make adjustments, be that personnel or otherwise, they win the Super Bowl in his fifth year. But if you go from 13 and three to nine and seven and missed the playoffs, it's the same school of thought. Everybody probably looking at it. Mike McDaniel, say got him out of here and he went backwards. But when you know you have the right people, you got the right people and you don't make those changes just for the sake of change. And that's the thing the dolphins had to do so much of for so long. And I feel like we're still preconditioned to expect it. We don't have to feel that way anymore. We can understand this is the group that we have. We know their strengths. We know their weaknesses. We allow them to feel through their vision of a team and try to realize it and then make adjustments. And no, we're not going to go back to square one and tear everything down to the core and start all over again. And hope that we're fortunate enough to have enough stability across five, six years where guys can get contract extensions and we can get back to this place again just to get impatient through no fault of the people who are here. It's a huge deal for the dolphins. 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The Miami Dolphins have made yet another massive contract extension — although this one you may not have seen coming. Head coach Mike McDaniel as reportedly agreed to terms on a new deal that keeps him in place as the head coach of the Dolphins through the end of the 2028 season. Why is this contract so important, how did the Dolphins get here and what does it mean for Miami's big picture aspirations?
