{"id":690623,"date":"2026-01-20T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:12:23","slug":"mike-mcdaniel-very-much-in-play-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690623\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel “Very Much In Play” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tMike McDaniel \u201cVery Much In Play\u201d
\nJanuary 19th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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\u201cShow me the money!\u201d<\/p>\n

If one well-known NFL insider is on the mark, the Bucs have just as good of a chance as any team to land a highly-respected playcaller.<\/p>\n

There have been rumblings concerning former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel and his various suitors, whether for NFL head coaching gigs or offensive coordinator jobs.<\/p>\n

Last week, McDaniel interviewed with the Bucs at One Buc Palace. He came and he left to do other interviews, contract not in hand.<\/p>\n

All along, ESPN NFL reporter Jeff Darlington, the pride of Seminole High School, has believed if McDaniel wasn\u2019t hired as a head coach, the Bucs would be a logical landing spot.\u00a0The desire from the Bucs and McDaniel seemed mutual, per Darlington.<\/p>\n

However, McDaniel is no dummy. He wanted to court as many suitors as he had. Good for business. Drives the price up.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the Lions filled their opening at offensive coordinator with former Cardinals (!) play-caller Drew Petzing.\u00a0Darlington then Twittered that all the openings McDaniel has interviewed for are \u201cvery much in play<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Translation: Whomever cuts McDaniel the biggest check and coughs up the most power and job security.<\/p>\n

Darlington had noted previously there may not be a better option for McDaniel than the Bucs. In the immortal words of the great eastern philosopher Moe Howard, \u201cWe shall see<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel \u201cVery Much In Play\u201d January 19th, 2026 \u201cShow me the money!\u201d If one well-known NFL insider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-690623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115926188521258006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690623","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=690623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}