{"id":668986,"date":"2026-01-11T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:34:13","slug":"browns-mike-mcdaniel-interview-coming-wild-history-with-kyle-shanahan-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668986\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns, Mike McDaniel: Interview coming, wild history with Kyle Shanahan revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cleveland is far from finished in the process, with the rules requiring multiple in-person interviews with minority candidates and a lot of limits for what coaches still in the playoffs can do. Wild Card weekend could add more candidates and competition for the Browns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-coaching-staff\/114938\/nfl-head-coach-vacancies-browns-could-get-more-competition-after-wild-card-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with four coaches considered possibilities to be fired if they lose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cleveland is also reportedly interested in interviewing former Miami Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel this week:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That report has since been confirmed by multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">McDaniel spent four years in Miami with a combined 35-33 record with two playoff appearances. A very creative offensive mind, McDaniel\u2019s squads have not always been the most disciplined, but the Dolphins often had a very explosive offense despite Tua Tagovailoa\u2019s limitations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Browns have some familiarity with McDaniel, as he was their wide receivers coach back in 2014 under HC Mike Pettine and OC Kyle Shanahan. According to Mike Silver, it was McDaniel who helped Shanahan write up his PowerPoint presentation about why he should be allowed to leave Cleveland after just one season:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">McDaniel followed Shanahan to Atlanta, then San Francisco, before getting the top job with Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It would be interesting to find out if owner Jimmy Haslam and GM Andrew Berry ask McDaniel about his involvement with Shanahan\u2019s departure. Given that McDaniel is known to have multiple head coach interview options and almost certainty about getting an offensive coordinator position, interviewing with the Browns after his previous experience could speak well of what the former Dolphins coach thinks of the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What do you think about McDaniel as a candidate for the Browns? Did you know about his role in Shanahan\u2019s departure?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Share your McDaniel thoughts in our comment section below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland is far from finished in the process, with the rules requiring multiple in-person interviews with minority candidates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,89287,60181,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-668986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-history","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115876964828776990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668986","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=668986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}