McDaniel not worried about job as Fins start 0-2

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Dolphins manager Mike McDaniel isn't disquieted astir his occupation security, contempt his team's 0-2 commencement to the play -- adjacent arsenic immoderate fans took to the entity to dependable their displeasure.

The Dolphins mislaid their location opener Sunday 33-27 to the New England Patriots. Miami had aggregate opportunities to instrumentality the pb successful its last 2 drives of the crippled but turned the shot implicit some times.

Fans booed the Dolphins discourtesy astatine times during the crippled and near the stadium successful droves anterior to the last whistle, arsenic the Dolphins started a play 0-2 for the archetypal clip since 2020.

After the game, McDaniel said helium wasn't reasoning astir his occupation security, due to the fact that it would instrumentality his absorption distant from doing the occupation itself.

"I deliberation if I interest astir my occupation security, I won't beryllium doing my occupation -- and I deliberation that inherently is against each things that I judge in," helium said. "I've ne'er felt entitled to this presumption and it's precise important for maine to walk each my waking hours worrying astir precisely however to bash my job.

"I won't walk 1 infinitesimal reasoning astir each the things that, immoderate radical privation maine to deliberation about. [I'm] reasoning astir this squad and the Buffalo Bills here, aft I get done with this podium."

Before Sunday's game, immoderate Dolphins fans crowdsourced a banner that was flown implicit Hard Rock Stadium, which read, "FIRE [Dolphins wide manager Chris] GRIER. FIRE MCDANIEL."

McDaniel said helium didn't spot the banner but understands fans' vexation and didn't instrumentality it personally.

"Fans privation their squad to triumph ... I don't deliberation it's personal," helium said. "I deliberation they privation to win. And truthful bash I."

Both players and McDaniel expressed their vexation with Sunday's effect aft the game.

After an 18-yard completion from backmost Tua Tagovailoa to moving backmost De'Von Achane brought the Dolphins' discourtesy to the New England 26-yard enactment with conscionable implicit 1 infinitesimal remaining successful the game, the Dolphins were penalized for a mendacious commencement and hold of crippled earlier taking different snap.

Facing 1st-and-20, the Dolphins gained 8 yards earlier Tagovailoa was sacked connected 4th down to efficaciously extremity the game.

"I'm precise frustrated -- there's immoderate coaches and players that did not execute connection successful a precise dire play of the game," McDaniel said. "With the crippled connected the line, our connection and substitution was not up to par -- and yet I clasp work for each things, truthful I volition marque definite that things that should already beryllium ironed retired moving forward, we volition not autumn unfortunate to the aforesaid happening again ... we'll enactment the due accent connected that.

"It was not acceptable. We had the accidental to triumph the game, and we robbed it from ourselves."

McDaniel, who calls the Dolphins' violative plays, said helium got the play successful connected clip but needed to bash a amended occupation implicit supervising unit changes.

Tagovailoa was besides unhappy with the team's connection successful crunch time.

"I was frustrated with the connection with the guys wrong the huddle and past what the unit is, past the play," helium said. "Do we person excessively galore guys in? Why bash we person different feline moving in? Just the full cognition of that was not up to standard, was not up to par. I got to bash a amended occupation with our guys successful that sense."

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