Michael Lee McDaniel was born on March 6,1983 and is an American football coach who is the head coach for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League.
17 Facts About Mike McDaniel
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Mike McDaniel served as an assistant coach for the Houston Texans, Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons, and San Francisco 49ers from 2017 to 2021, holding his first offensive coordinator position in 2021.
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Mike McDaniel has appeared in two Super Bowls, first with the Falcons in 2017 then with the 49ers in 2020.
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Mike McDaniel spent five seasons with the 49ers, mostly as the run game coordinator.
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Mike McDaniel's tenure concluded with their second NFC Championship Game appearance in three seasons; McDaniel served as the offensive coordinator that season before he left to become the Dolphins' head coach.
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Mike McDaniel was born in Aurora, Colorado in 1983.
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Mike McDaniel graduated from Smoky Hill High School in 2001.
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Mike McDaniel played college football as a wide receiver at Yale, where he graduated with a degree in history.
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In 2006, Mike McDaniel was hired by the Houston Texans as an offensive assistant under head coach Gary Kubiak, whom Mike McDaniel worked alongside at the Denver Broncos a season earlier.
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In 2013, Mike McDaniel was promoted to wide receivers coach following the departure of Ike Hilliard, who left to join the Buffalo Bills in the same position.
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Mike McDaniel was hired by the Atlanta Falcons as an offensive assistant coach under new head coach Dan Quinn in 2015.
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In 2017, Mike McDaniel was hired by the San Francisco 49ers as their run game coordinator under his long-time associate and new head coach Kyle Shanahan, whom he worked alongside for a total of nine seasons on the Texans, Redskins, Browns, and Falcons.
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Mike McDaniel became the first Dolphins head coach since Nick Saban in 2005 to win his first game as Miami's head coach, and the first in franchise history to win a season opener as a rookie head coach.
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Mike McDaniel helped the Dolphins defeat the Bills for the first time since the 2018 season.
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Mike McDaniel's mother is white and his father is black.
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In February 2022, Mike McDaniel said some family members from his mother's side cut ties with him over his father's race.
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Mike McDaniel grew up close friends with comedian Dan Soder in Aurora, Colorado.