Mike McDaniel isn’t fazed by talk about his job security.
During a Wednesday press conference, the Dolphins head coach brushed off a question about his future in Miami with his team floundering in the standings.
“Ultimately, you know what it is when you sign up for it,” McDaniel said. “I’m not worried about it in the slightest. I think that would absolutely be selfish. If I’m worried about that, I’m definitely not worried about the things that I have to offer the players that are playing in a professional football game. The season hasn’t gone as anybody necessarily wanted. How often do we say that in life in general? My job is not to predict and expect.”
After making the postseason in McDaniel’s first two seasons, the Dolphins are 6-8 and a long shot to make it for a third straight year.
Miami has yet to get over the hump during both of McDaniel’s playoff runs, falling in the wild card round in each season.
Before falling to the Texans last week, there were rumblings about McDaniel’s job, with ESPN’s Dan Graziano writing that there could be “a change if things end badly this season.”
In August, McDaniel signed an extension to keep him in Miami through the 2028 season, lining him up with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who inked a four-year, $212.4 million extension with the Dolphins in July.
The Dolphins’ season has been complicated by injuries that have perhaps clouded McDaniel’s ability as the team’s head coach.
With Tagovailoa sidelined with a concussion, the Dolphins went 1-3.
They are 5-4 with him behind center.
The Dolphins will take on the 49ers in Miami on Sunday and finish their season with two road games against teams out of the playoff picture, the Browns and Jets.
