Two names have already surfaced in the Dolphins’ head coach search, and neither of the names will have fans partying in South Beach. Mike Shanahan and Todd Haley are showing up in reports, but neither is the type of coach to make the Dolphins a powerhouse.
Shanahan, 63, has not coached in the NFL since 2013, and his last stint was a disastrous four-year run with the Redskins in which he went 24-40, and managed just one winning season. Shanahan peaked in the late-1990s with back-to-back Super Bowl victories, but he’s approaching two decades since that success, and John Elway isn’t about to don a Dolphins uniform. Shanahan’s bread-and-butter has been turning nondescript running backs into Pro Bowlers, but that simply isn’t the way of the NFL anymore.
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Turning to Shanahan is a step backward in today’s NFL, where innovation – and passing games – are king.
By that measure, Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley would then seem like a perfect fit for the job. Except for the fact that Haley is seven games under .500 as a head coach after a three-year stint running the Chiefs. Haley sandwiched a 10-6 year between a 4-12 and 5-8 campaign, and his high-intensity personality was so grating that the Chiefs fired him with three games left in the 2011 season. Haley had led the Chiefs to a division title just one year earlier.
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The Dolphins are in flux, with egos that don’t figure to mesh well with a combative leading man. Ndamukong Suh is notoriously edgy, and QB Ryan Tannehill’s character was called into question around midseason when it was reported he berates practice squad players who intercept his passes.
Hopefully for Dolphins fans’ sake the front office is making its net as wide as possible.
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