{"id":355744,"date":"2025-09-10T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355744\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:27:13","slug":"dolphins-hc-mike-mcdaniel-gm-chris-grier-may-not-survive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/355744\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel, GM Chris Grier May Not Survive Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami\u2019s leadership appeared to be on the hot seat entering the 2025 campaign, and those seats are only getting warmer. Sources told Tony Pauline of Sportskeeda<\/a> that head coach Mike McDaniel and general manager Chris Grier may not survive the current season if the organization fails to turn things around.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>McDaniel\u2019s spot on the hot seat isn\u2019t anything new. For starters, Dolphins owner\u00a0Stephen Ross\u00a0released a statement<\/a> following the 2024 campaign that the head coach (along with the GM) would be sticking around for the 2025 season. While that statement served as a vote of confidence, it was also a clear acknowledgement that a firing was at least under consideration.<\/p>\n

We also heard rumblings in August that McDaniel was a candidate to be the first canned coach<\/a> of the 2025 campaign. An anonymous GM described the situation as a \u201cticking time bomb,\u201d citing the coach\u2019s willingness to let the likes of Jalen Ramsey<\/a> and Tyreek Hill<\/a> \u201cwalk all over\u201d him.<\/p>\n

The head coach is still attached to an extension that runs through the 2028 season. McDaniel earned that contract after guiding the Dolphins to the postseason in each of his first two seasons at the helm, including a 2023 campaign where the offense finished first in yards and second in points. Tua Tagovailoa<\/a>\u2018s concussion issues contributed to the team\u2019s demise in 2024, but the locker room turmoil was enough to put the offensive mastermind on the hot seat. An embarrassing loss to the Colts in Week 1 has naturally led to more whispers about the head coach\u2019s potential ouster.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While Grier was included in Ross\u2019s statement following the 2024 season, the GM hasn\u2019t felt the heat as much as his head coach. This is Grier\u2019s 10th season in his role as GM, although he didn\u2019t get full control of the roster until 2019. The executive saw the Dolphins make the playoffs during his first season at the helm, but the team failed to return to the postseason over the next five years. After shuffling through the likes of Adam Gase and Brian Flores, the McDaniel hiring seemed to revitalize the organization. In addition to his initial HC hit, Grier got credit for some big-swing acquisitions, including Ramsey and Hill.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for the executive to lose some of that goodwill. After signing Ramsey to a lucrative extension ahead of the 2024 campaign, the cornerback was traded less than a year later, and there\u2019s still a chance Hill follows suit. The issues in the locker room can\u2019t necessarily be attributed to the front office leader, but some other ill-advised moves have also led to Miami\u2019s current situation. With the Dolphins failing to win a playoff game since the 2000 campaign, there\u2019s a chance that ownership may also look to shake up their front office sooner than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami\u2019s leadership appeared to be on the hot seat entering the 2025 campaign, and those seats are only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[4835,217,7,216,251,2087,4836,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-355744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-chris-grier","9":"tag-dolphins","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-dolphins","13":"tag-miamidolphins","14":"tag-mike-mcdaniel","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115177642272315122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}