McDaniel: Dolphins owner Ross 'really frustrated'

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Miami Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross was "frustrated" aft the teams 27-24 nonaccomplishment Sunday to the Carolina Panthers.

Dolphins manager Mike McDaniel said helium met with Ross aft the crippled -- which helium does aft each crippled -- and said some men voiced their vexation with each other.

"He was truly frustrated, conscionable similar I was," McDaniel said. "We talked astir the situation up to get acceptable for the Chargers and that was truly the grade of it."

The Dolphins led 17-0 aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th of Sunday's game, earlier allowing Carolina to adjacent the crippled with a 27-7 run. Since McDaniel was hired successful 2022, the Dolphins were 10-0 successful games wherever they led by 3 scores astatine immoderate point.

Miami's 1-4 commencement is its worst since 2019. While the team's erstwhile 2 coaches, Brian Flores and Adam Gase, were fired astatine the extremity of their 3rd seasons, Ross fired Joe Philbin aft a 1-3 commencement successful 2015, and Tony Sparano aft a 4-9 commencement successful 2011.

McDaniel has insisted that worrying astir his occupation information would instrumentality his absorption distant from doing his existent job, and that is not thing helium is consenting to do.

With the losses piling, McDaniel said he's bushed of talking astir improving -- but recognizes that the conversations volition proceed until the on-field results change.

"It's frustrating due to the fact that there's a batch of talking and we request to large successful doing," helium said Monday. "I don't deliberation anybody wants to perceive maine speech astir it arsenic overmuch arsenic I don't consciousness similar saying it, but it doesn't alteration the steadfast world that is you person to get amended astatine things oregon you'll proceed having the aforesaid results."