The Miami Dolphins reportedly fired their head coach after four seasons with the franchise.
The 2025 season began as the worst for the Dolphins since McDaniel's arrival. The team started 0-3 and picked up its first win of the year against thewith a devastating knee injury. From there, the team blew late leads in back-to-back defeats against the Carolina Panthers andthe Dolphins'"leadership" following their Week 6 loss to the Chargers, saying some players had been late or skipped meetings in prior weeks.
Following Tagovailoa's comments, the Dolphins traveled to Cleveland and got demolished 31-6 by the previously 1-5 Browns. However, they followed that up with a four-game winning streak in Weeks 10-14 before ultimately losing three of four games to finish out 7-10.The Dolphins hired McDaniel in February 2022 to replace former head coach Brian Flores. McDaniel had spent one year as offensive coordinator with theThe hiring of McDaniel in 2022 coincided with the Dolphins' trade for Hill, and both aided Tagovailoa in getting the team to the playoffs at 9-8, the same record it had with Flores in 2021. The team fell 34-31 against the Buffalo Bills in the wild card round, which featured rookie Skylar Thompson at quarterback in place of Tagovailoa, who was in the McDaniel helped guide the Dolphins to an 11-6 record and another playoff berth in 2023, but their season ended in another wild card flameout, this time against the eventual Super Bowl champion Chiefs in frigid Kansas City. The team went 6-5 in Tagovailoa's 11 starts in 2024, but the team went just 2-4 in games he missed and failed to make the playoffs at 8-9. Looking to the Dolphins' future, Tagovailoa signed a franchise-record four-year, $212.4 million contract in July 2024. He has $54 million in guaranteed money and a $99.2 million dead cap hit for 2026, but he does not have any guaranteed money in his deal after next season.
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