The Dolphins were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention with Monday night\u2019s loss in Pittsburgh, which means the questions about head coach Mike McDaniel\u2019s future in Miami will only get louder. McDaniel acknowledged after the game that his team wasn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m supremely disappointed at the outcome,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cFlat out, their team was better than our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the two focal points with the disappointing season in Miami are McDaniel and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, McDaniel said there\u2019s plenty of blame to go around.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody has to do better,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cYou have to coach better. Passing, a lot of times, people squarely put all the focus on the quarterback. Several times tonight, he was about to make the right read, and we had our [receiver] fall over. It\u2019s been a multitude of things. It has to be better for us to be able to win games when you\u2019re not owning time of possession or controlling the game on the ground. That limits you a ton. So it\u2019s not up to standard.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a disappointing season for the Dolphins, and one that raised real questions about whether McDaniel and Tagovailoa are the future of the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention with Monday night\u2019s loss in Pittsburgh, which means the questions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-352241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}