{"id":420151,"date":"2026-01-21T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:02:07","slug":"mike-mcdaniels-withdrawal-from-browns-coaching-search-raises-obvious-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420151\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel&#8217;s withdrawal from Browns&#8217; coaching search raises obvious questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s odd, to say the least, that a head-coaching candidate affirmatively withdraws from consideration after interviewing for the job. That\u2019s what former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-mike-mcdaniel-withdraws-from-browns-head-coaching-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has done in Cleveland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-mike-mcdaniel-withdraws-from-browns-head-coaching-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interviewed for the job<\/a> on January 12. He opted not to submit to a second interview, which had been scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The report provided no reason. One potential explanation is that McDaniel didn\u2019t believe he\u2019d get the job. Another potential explanation is that he didn\u2019t want it. Which, if accurate, would be a smart move; taking a rebound job with a team that has a habit of firing coaches could result in the second chance not lasting job, while also becoming the coach\u2019s last opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another possibility. McDaniel remains under consideration for both the Raiders\u2019 and Ravens\u2019 head-coaching jobs. Maybe he believes he\u2019ll be getting one of those two positions.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, McDaniel is far better off taking an offensive coordinator position with a good team than becoming the head coach of a perennially bad one. For every team, the goal is to hire a coach who has options. And it\u2019s possible that McDaniel has decided he has better options than putting himself in line to be the next coach fired by the Browns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s odd, to say the least, that a head-coaching candidate affirmatively withdraws from consideration after interviewing for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-420151","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\/420151","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=420151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}