{"id":398488,"date":"2026-01-10T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398488\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:24:07","slug":"mike-mcdaniel-to-interview-with-afc-south-team-for-head-coaching-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398488\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel to Interview With AFC South Team for Head Coaching Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_dgcephr80\">Former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel is interviewing for the Titans&#8217; head coaching opening next Wednesday, <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2009733110523433130?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to a report<\/a> from Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xhn1f6of9\">McDaniel <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/mike-mcdaniel-releases-statement-after-dolphins-firing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was fired earlier this week <\/a>after four seasons at the helm, which included a 35-33 record and two playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_f82aak1p6\">McDaniel has received <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/nfc-team-contacts-ex-dolphins-coach-mike-mcdaniel-open-offensive-coordinator-gig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plenty of interest <\/a>since being fired in Miami, for both head coaching and offensive coordinator openings. He is not expected to be out of work long, as he is still regarded as one of the brightest offensive minds in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_x55sykk4u\">McDaniel and the Dolphins went 7-10 this season, as the franchise missed the playoffs for the second year in a row. Miami made the postseason each of the first two years with McDaniel leading the way, but a second missed postseason appearance proved to be too much to overcome for McDaniel to keep his job.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FREE NEWSLETTER. SI BTN Newsletter. Start off your day with SI:CYMI. dark<\/p>\n<p>More NFL on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel is interviewing for the Titans&#8217; head coaching opening next Wednesday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-398488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398488","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=398488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}