{"id":400074,"date":"2026-01-10T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400074\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:50:08","slug":"report-troy-aikman-will-continue-to-advise-dolphins-during-head-coaching-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400074\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Troy Aikman will continue to advise Dolphins during head-coaching search"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dolphins apparently are pleased with the efforts of consultant Troy Aikman, as it relates to their search for a General Manager.<\/p>\n

Via Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, the Hall of Fame quarterback and ESPN game analyst will continue to serve as an advisor<\/a> in the process of searching for a head coach.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the Dolphins didn\u2019t have a head-coaching vacancy when Aikman was first retained. They now do. The fact that Mike McDaniel was fired this week serves only to bolster speculation that Aikman\u2019s advice included making a change \u2014 especially given his frank and sharp criticism<\/a> of McDaniel\u2019s handling of the fourth quarter of a Week 15 Monday night game against the Steelers.<\/p>\n

And while the blatant Tom Brady conflict of interest as Raiders minority owner (and now close collaborator<\/a> with G.M. John Spytek regarding the Las Vegas football operation) and Fox NFL broadcaster has stretched the rubber band far enough to include less problematic dual-hat situations, Aikman\u2019s role in the hiring of a new G.M. and head coach in Miami will give him a vested interest in the success of the Dolphins based on the advice he was paid to provide. Which will undermine, if only a bit, his objectivity throughout the tenure of G.M. Jon-Eric Sullivan and whoever becomes the successor to McDaniel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins apparently are pleased with the efforts of consultant Troy Aikman, as it relates to their search…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-400074","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\/400074","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=400074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}