Miami Herald: Dolphins players have turned on McDaniel

[Mr. Wonderful]

McDaniel wanted to be a players coach and players like Tyrek and Jalen responded by showing up late to meetings.  They basically crapped on their coach.  

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[Neo]

1 hour ago, T.E. said:

Division 1-AA, not Division 1. At a school with no athletic scholarships.

 

Good for him for making the team or whatever, but you're acting like he walked on at Ohio State.

 

No, he isn’t.   He’s acknowledging an accomplishment few achieve.   It’s absurd to ignore the accomplishment or to diminish it with “or whatever.”

 

A doctor rearranged arteries around my heart in December, or whatever.   It’s not like he cured cancer.

[That's No Moon]

35 minutes ago, transient said:

I don't dislike him because he looks like a dork. I dislike him because he comes off as super fake. He's trying to play a part and he can't pull it off.  For example that whole "I wish it were colder" thing. You want to do that as a coach go ahead and do that, but you can't then come out and look as cold as he actually looked that day.  It pokes a huge hole in the phony bravado balloon that he totes around and everyone sees it right away.  There are plenty of other examples, that's just an easy one.

[T.E.]

12 minutes ago, Neo said:

 

No, he isn’t.   He’s acknowledging an accomplishment few achieve.   It’s absurd to ignore the accomplishment or to diminish it with “or whatever.”

 

A doctor rearranged arteries around my heart in December, or whatever.   It’s not like he cured cancer.

I'm not diminishing his accomplishment of making the team, but he did not play Division 1 football, which was the original claim.

[Special K]

McDaniel after reading the article:

 

[Beck Water]

8 hours ago, 947 said:

NFL players don't respect a nerd with no social skills who wears capri pants? Color me shocked.

 

"Vitamin W" cures just about everything in sports.

 

NFL players on the Dolphins respected McDaniel just fine when they were a team on the rise from 9-8, to 9-8 with a playoff game they came embarrassingly (for the Bills) close to winning with Skylar Thompson under center, to 11-6 and playing the Bills for the AFC East in Week 17.  

 

Doesn't matter what the coach looks like, or how he dresses, when you're winning.

 

The Dolphins back-slid from 2023: from 2nd to 22nd in offense, from 11-6 to 8-9.  Defense improved, but not enough, and it kind of looked as though McDaniels offense got "solved" a bit.  If McDaniel adjusts and the offense returns to form, the locker room will be just fine.

 

If he doesn't adjust, he may have problems holding the team, but it won't be because he's a capri-wearing nerd.
 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Beck Water

[Neo]

15 minutes ago, T.E. said:

I'm not diminishing his accomplishment of making the team, but he did not play Division 1 football, which was the original claim.

 

 

Of course you were.

[T.E.]

3 minutes ago, Neo said:

 

 

Of course you were.

My literal quote from the first page of this thread:

 

"Still an impressive accomplishment"

[Neo]

9 minutes ago, T.E. said:

My literal quote from the first page of this thread:

 

"Still an impressive accomplishment"

 

 

You made a point of saying it was a lower division, not like Ohio State, where no scholarships were available and said “or whatever.”   All of that diminishes.

 

I’m not able to view that differently.   If you don’t believe it does, whether deliberate or inadvertent, I don’t know what to say.   Best wishes.

[eball]

Does this mean Miami isn’t winning the offseason championship again?

 

Eff the Fish.