McDaniel: Focus remains on 1-6 Dolphins, not job

CLEVELAND -- Miami Dolphins manager Mike McDaniel said helium isn't reasoning astir his occupation security, adjacent aft a 31-6 nonaccomplishment Sunday to the Cleveland Browns dropped his squad to 1-6.

A intelligibly disappointed McDaniel gripped some sides of the lectern arsenic helium spoke aft the crippled from Huntington Bank Stadium, wherever the Dolphins continued their worst commencement since 2021. When asked whether helium feels renewed interest astir his occupation status, McDaniel again said helium feels similar worrying would beryllium a disservice to the different radical wrong the organization.

"The mode I look astatine this occupation is I find it precise violative to each parties progressive if I'm reasoning astir having the occupation -- I request to beryllium doing my job," helium said. "So for arsenic agelong arsenic I manager for the Miami Dolphins and this organization, they'll get everything from me. And I garbage to walk my clip reasoning astir (my occupation security) ... You person a job, you bash your occupation and you bash it to the champion of your ability.

"That's wherever my interest lies. I deliberation it's violative to each coaches, players and the enactment if I'm spending that precious clip reasoning astir myself."

McDaniel said helium could archer players' frustrations from the play boiled implicit against the Browns and allowed a hard concern to snowball.

Miami committed 11 penalties for 103 yards successful the loss, some squad highs since McDaniel was hired successful 2022. It besides turned implicit the shot 4 times, including 3 interceptions from backmost Tua Tagovailoa and a fumble by footwear returner Dee Eskridge.

"I deliberation (we) did everything to suffer the game," McDaniel said. "I deliberation you saw a batch of frustrated players from the play let it to seep into our play and support america from executing ... a crippled similar this, I deliberation we didn't spot coming successful presumption of our prep but you absolutely, with 100% certainty, person to measure everything.

"No person, nary subordinate oregon nary manager has got their hands clean, and we person to spell backmost to enactment and -- starting with maine -- bash a amended job."

McDaniel did hint astatine imaginable unit changes this week up of a Week 8 sojourn to Atlanta.

"There's a batch of guys that volition person an important enactment week," helium said. "I mean, if you are negatively affecting the shot squad routinely, I don't person a prime but to measure a antithetic player, and I person to manager a batch better, arsenic well. So we're going to find retired who and what we're made of."

McDaniel said portion determination were "multiple factors" successful Tagovailoa's 3 interceptions, 2 of them were "extremely preventable." He didn't suggest a backmost change, though Tagovailoa was benched successful the 4th fourth for rookie Quinn Ewers, who was promoted to backup implicit Zach Wilson this week.

But helium did accidental Miami volition research each options moving forward, adjacent if that means changing its benignant of play.

"We volition ticker the portion and alteration our benignant of play if we person to -- everything's connected the table," McDaniel said. "When you spell to a crippled you afloat cognize that you person the capableness to win, and get handed a very, precise humbling loss, there's nary if, ands oregon buts astir it. Guys request to beryllium professionals and guys request to measurement up to the plate. And each idiosyncratic connected our team, if you're saying, 'It's not me,' it's you."

Tagovailoa finished 12-of-23 passing for 100 yards and 3 interceptions. His 24.1 passer standing was a vocation low.

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