{"id":423318,"date":"2026-01-21T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:26:11","slug":"mike-mcdaniel-to-join-jim-harbaugh-as-chargers-new-offensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423318\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel to Join Jim Harbaugh As Chargers\u2019 New Offensive Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5n\">Mike McDaniel\u2019s job search is seemingly over. On Tuesday night, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reported that the former Dolphins head coach is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adamschefter\/status\/2013791805142106266?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">set to become the Chargers\u2019 new offensive coordinator<\/a>. The two sides will have dinner on Tuesday night and will likely make things official.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5q\">This news come shortly after McDaniel informed the Browns and other teams, according to Schefter, that he would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/mike-mcdaniel-makes-final-decision-browns-head-coaching-job\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropping out of the running<\/a> for their head coaching positions. He appeared as a candidate for the Ravens and Raiders head coaching jobs, too. The Buccaneers and the Eagles showed interest in McDaniel for their OC positions as well, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffDarlington\/status\/2013794184071659729\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\u2019s Jeff Darlington reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">McDaniel will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/chargers-greg-roman-fire-offensive-coordinator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replacing Greg Roman<\/a> to become Jim Harbaugh\u2019s offensive coordinator in Los Angeles. Harbaugh had only ever worked with Roman as offensive coordinator during his NFL head coaching career with the 49ers and now the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">McDaniel will go from working with the No. 5 pick in the 2020 NFL draft, Tua Tagovailoa, at quarterback to working with the No. 6 pick, Justin Herbert.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">This won\u2019t be McDaniel\u2019s first time serving as an NFL offensive coordinator. He was the 49ers\u2019 OC in 2021 before landing the Dolphins head coaching job in \u201922. He was fired by Miami after the \u201825 season.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel\u2019s job search is seemingly over. On Tuesday night, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reported that the former Dolphins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-423318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}