No wonder that Tyreek Hill smiled and laughed when his season was over.
Hill was done with the weekly circus in Miami, and the previous Super Bowl winner didn’t must cope with the Dolphins anymore.
Tua Tagovailoa isn’t backing up his $212 million contract[/caption]
Dolphins have a culture problem
“We have now guys showing as much as players-only meetings late, guys not showing as much as players-only meetings,” said Miami quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, after his team fell 29-27 to the Los Angeles Chargers in the ultimate seconds on Sunday.
“Shocked,” Tagovailoa added.
“That is something that we’ve talked about collectively as a team, about having the ability to finish in games like this where we’ve got the chance to win the sport.
“And it’s not only one side of the ball. It’s every phase. I’ve contributed with the turnovers. … It’s frustrating to say the least.”
Miami only has one answer after falling to 1-5, and already losing Hill to a season-ending knee injury that can likely impact the rest of his NFL profession.
The Dolphins must slam the ‘reset’ button, fire McDaniel, move on from Tagovailoa, and ignite a full organizational rebuild.
Again.
Tagovailoa isn’t making the playoffs
Miami hasn’t won a playoff game since 2000, when Dave Wannstedt was head coach and Dolphins QB Jay Fiedler beat a young Peyton Manning.
Twenty-five years later, the Dolphins are paying Tagovailoa $212 million to consistently be the second-best QB on the sphere, while McDaniel is on the verge of falling below .500 as Miami’s head coach.
He’s 29-28 through three-plus seasons, and McDaniel entered Week 1 of the 2025 campaign as certainly one of the NFL coaches almost certainly to be fired.
McDaniel has fallen from a media and fan favorite to a Dolphins leader void of answers.
He alternates between beaten and flippant during press conferences, while Miami is producing the Twenty eighth-ranked defense within the NFL (29 points allowed per game) and 18th-ranked offense (22.3 points).
Compare Tagovailoa standing behind a podium and calling out his missing-in-action teammates to the growing bond between Chargers QB Justin Herbert and head coach Jim Harbaugh, and it’s obvious what the Dolphins are lacking.
Something missing with coach and QB
“He’s (Herbert) capable of just mighty-man it and shake it off and hit Ladd McConkey,” Harbaugh said. “I’m going to do not forget that play until they throw dirt over top of me. That’s how great I feel about that.”
The second-year Los Angeles coach added: “Justin Herbert. I mean, he’s like Hercules on the market.”
Tagovailoa is completing 69.8 percent of his passes, which is nice enough for tenth within the league.
Getty – ContributorDolphins owner Stephen Ross has an enormous decision to make[/caption]
Yet his average yards per completion is a profession low 9.5, while Miami’s offense is twenty sixth within the NFL in average yards (289).
Where’s the offense in Miami?
McDaniel was hired for his offensive acumen and creativity.
Tagovailoa was the No. 5 overall pick of a 2020 draft that featured Joe Burrow at No. 1, Herbert at No. 6, Jordan Love at No. 26 and Jalen Hurts at No. 53.
All 4 of those other QBs are superior to Tagovailoa, and McDaniel hasn’t done enough to develop a $212m quarterback who’s mission critical to the Dolphins’ success.
Nothing is working in Miami, and the 1-5 Dolphins can’t even get full team participation in players-only meetings.
If Miami falls to the Cleveland Browns — who’ve more hope with rookie quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders — in a tragic battle of one-win teams, McDaniel shouldn’t make it to Week 8.
Stephen Ross is price $17 billion, however the Dolphins’ owner keeps throwing his money away on the NFL’s most chaotic team.
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