The Miami Dolphins have added Hall of Fame quarterback and ESPN Monday Night Football analyst Troy Aikman to aid in their search to replace former general manager Chris Grier. The move comes as owner Stephen Ross looks to people outside the Dolphins organization to provide a different point of view about what the team needs and how they can move forward.<\/p>\n
Aikman was highly critical of Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel during the team\u2019s Week 15 Monday Night Football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Miami trailed 28-3 in the fourth quarter of the game, but put two late touchdowns on the board to lose 28-15. Aikman repeatedly called out McDaniel and the Dolphins\u2019 offense for having no sense of urgency, taking nearly the full play clock between snaps on every play.<\/p>\n
On Friday, McDaniel was asked if he has a relationship with Aikman and how the hire may or may not impact McDaniel\u2019s job security with the Dolphins. The coach replied, \u201cI can answer your first question with, yeah, I was in conversations that I won\u2019t share beyond with ownership. I was aware and I\u2019m not opposed to more information ever. I think prioritizing the importance of a decision, you educate yourself and I think Troy Aikman speaks for himself in terms of his relationships that he\u2019s had within the National Football League and knows a lot of things. Information is a positive to me and being able to resource that, I think we\u2019re fortunate. I\u2019m excited for that. As far as everything else, again, I\u2019m not going to spend one second of this job prioritizing what my job is under some other \u2018does this work for me.\u2019 My priority is I\u2019m the head coach and I\u2019m going to take those responsibilities as they relate to everybody involved in the organization. I\u2019m going take to those serious and focus on that. I\u2019m not joking, lying, misleading. I don\u2019t think about all those questions ever. It\u2019s a waste of my time and I don\u2019t try to waste my time or other people\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
After being asked about the criticism from Aikman during the Monday night broadcast, McDaniel shook it off, answering, \u201cNo, that stuff doesn\u2019t hit me \u2013 when I signed up for this job, this just in and when things work, people will applaud; when they don\u2019t work, they\u2019ll have critiques. And if I expect anything else, that\u2019s a level of entitlement that doesn\u2019t really hit me correctly. It\u2019s kind of the nature of the biz. So you\u2019re telling me he didn\u2019t like us not scoring points and taking up too much time? Neither did I, that was not the intent. He\u2019s doing his job, and when I signed up for this job it was inherent that results will dictate all narratives regardless of if things were good, bad or whatever. It doesn\u2019t bother me in the least. As a matter of fact, I think it would be funny if it did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Media reports continue to indicate no decision on the future of McDaniel as the Dolphins head coach have been made. Some reports suggest he will be back in 2026, working with the new GM, while others lean toward his replacement as Miami cleans house this offseason and starts a new rebuild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins have added Hall of Fame quarterback and ESPN Monday Night Football analyst Troy Aikman to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2733,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-651152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-miami-dolphins-news","13":"tag-miamidolphins","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115832244549836506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651152","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=651152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}