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Miami dolphins look horrible in their first two games of the 2025 season and their departure placed head coach Mike McDaniel firmly on the hot seat.
The dolphins lost against the Indianapolis colts and the Patriots of New England and will enter their third match of the season against the Buffalo Bills with the second differential outgoing from the NFL at -31.
The former NFL star star Shawne Merriman predicted that the change would soon arrive at the Dolphins.
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Miami Dolphins KJ Britt (3), the offensive platform Patrick Paul (52), the Large Tyreek Hill (10) and the offensive platform Kion Smith (71) take the ground against the New England Patriots at Hard Rock Stadium on September 14, 2025. (Sam Navarro / Imagn images)
“This team will soon be dismantled here, and I think it will start with head coach Mike McDaniel,” he told PK Press Club Digital. “I think they will start (seek) exchange or abandon some of their most frustrated players. You have a frustrated hill from Tyreek. Tyreek Hill is a very, very key figure in your locker room.
“So when you see it frustrated, and things like it happens … It is frustrated alone can go to a lot of guys and it could be a bad situation for him and that could be a bad situation for the organization.”
Merriman also said that he was far from being impressed by McDaniel’s press conference after the defeat against the Patriots.
McDaniel offered a confusing quote when he was questioned about the team’s failure to convert into third and fourth on his final possession of the match.
“This is a bit like the frustration for me is that it did not decide that it costs us, or a late game call, which sometimes happens,” said McDaniel. “But it was not one of those moments. I received the game call, but I have to do a better job to supervise the orchestration within our multiple staff groups.
“To win games, you have to win the match and not lose the match, honestly. And that’s how you lose the match. You move the ball on the field, you are the first and-10, then you find yourself in the second and 20. It was essential.”
Merriman said that it hadn’t really inspired confidence.
Miami Dolphins’ head coach Mike McDaniel entered the field before the Jacksonville Jaguars at Hard Rock Stadium on August 23, 2025. (Sam Navarro / Imagn images)
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“I don’t know if Mike McDaniel is going throughout the season,” he told PK Press Club Digital. “I would hate seeing someone get fired. But just seeing what I saw during their press conferences, and I have already seen it and it happened with (former coach of the Brandon Staley charges)-it is then that you know if some coaches are not ready to be in this position as a chief trap by the way they manage the worse adversity. Very good coordinator who does not yet know how to manage a team and he must learn to be in this position before he is another head coach.
The legend of dolphins Dan Marino offered a sunnier perspective to PK Press Club Digital earlier in the week.
“I think it’s a group effort, of course. Mike is a brilliant offensive spirit. He has proven it,” said Marino. “Yesterday (Sunday), it’s just at the end, like all the NFL matches, comes down to the fourth quarter. Almost all are like that, and you have to play the four quarters. We did it and we had the chance to win.
“The dolphins, if (de’von) Achane did not come out of the limits, I really have the impression that we would have won this match. It happened, there are some mistakes, and the next thing you know that you lose the match. This is why it is so critical to play football without error. But Mike is a very good football coach.”
Winning a lot of things in sport, and the dolphins could change the ship with an upset victory over the Bills.
San Diego Chargers Déstieur (56) Shawne Merriman against Baltimore Ravens at the Qualcomm stadium in San Diego on September 20, 2009. (Mark J. Rebilas / USA TODAY SPORTS)
However, the Dolphins have been on a sequence of six consecutive defeats against the Bills and have not defeated them since September 25, 2022. It is their only victory against them since December 2, 2018. In addition, Miami has not beat the bills in Buffalo since Christmas 2016.
