Former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel will interview for the Bills\u2019 head-coaching job. Unless he won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Per multiple reports, McDaniel canceled Friday\u2019s interview with Buffalo, which is seeking a replacement for nine-year head coach Sean McDermott.<\/p>\n
Given McDaniel\u2019s propensity for verbosity, and Wednesday\u2019s never-ending press conference featuring Bills owner Terry Pegula and G.M. Brandon Beane, maybe it\u2019s a good thing. Once the three of them started talking, who knows when they would have stopped?<\/p>\n
McDaniel recently opted not to go through with a second interview for the Browns\u2019 head-coaching job. It was later reported that the Chargers plan to make him their new offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
Why would McDaniel not go through with a head-coaching interview? Such situations are both rare and ripe for all sorts of speculation. If it\u2019s as simple as he doesn\u2019t view a given job as an ideal spot for his next shot (which could be his last one) at a team of his own, it\u2019s one thing to pass on the perennially dysfunctional Browns. But the Bills? With Josh Allen? <\/p>\n
Maybe, after digesting Wednesday\u2019s press conference and the widespread reaction to it, McDaniel realizes it\u2019s a no-win situation, since the primary expectation will be to win enough games to get to the postseason \u2014 and to win more than one game once he gets there.<\/p>\n
In Cleveland, there\u2019s nowhere to go but up, but there\u2019s no clear reason to think an ascension will happen under current ownership. In Buffalo, there\u2019s nowhere to go but down, and there\u2019s every reason to think that will happen under current ownership.<\/p>\n
Again, dysfunction flows from the top. McDaniel already worked for one of those teams. For his next head-coaching job, it becomes critical to find a stable organization in which the owner stays out of the way (i.e., not Cleveland) and doesn\u2019t make rushed, illogical decisions in the heat of the moment (i.e., not Buffalo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel will interview for the Bills\u2019 head-coaching job. Unless he won\u2019t. Per multiple reports,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-427421","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\/427421","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=427421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}